Example sentences of "we [vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 2 | The minute we got settled down in the bottom of our Kalamachka , rocking as if we were inside a boat and ‘ talking about Baghdad ’ , we felt transported to another country . |
| 3 | We got squeezed out of the middle . ’ |
| 4 | If I remember rightly , it all started going wrong with Cantona and Leeds after we got knocked out of the European Cup . |
| 5 | I saw him when we got picked up off the I mean it was half a lifeboat we were left sitting on . |
| 6 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 7 | And I think it was an example of the trust that we 'd built up over the weeks and months that we were able to do it . |
| 8 | Er , no , no , we were , I mean last night we 'd gone up from the week before on a rave , we 'd had about si ninety in , and last night we had about two hundred and fifty . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'd gone down to the Net , the day it happened . |
| 10 | She said , do you know she said we 'd gone off to the woods and I suddenly remembered I 'd left my purse in the car . |
| 11 | We would all come back to reboard the train after the Jockey Club Race Train Stakes on Wednesday , and cocktails and dinner would be served as soon as we 'd rolled out of the station . |
| 12 | We 'd got up with the rest at 4.00 am and stumbled , steep-blind on a starry night into stony darkness : another alpine day had started in night . |
| 13 | There was little noise from outside the windows and we appeared cut off from the city and from civilian life in general ; I lay in bed and pulled the sheets up over my nose . |
| 14 | ‘ I have n't actually met Frank yet ; he was appointed after we had broken up for the summer , ’ said Black . |
| 15 | Up to this point we had kept up with the other parties , but while they had tackled the step easily , we were left puzzled as to how they had done it . |
| 16 | Instead the orbs had sunk back and there was a darkness to the face , a suppressed despair , even an agitation that spoke of tedious things , so unlike those experiences we had laughed over in the past . |
| 17 | On the far side of it stood a village of longhouses , much like the ones we had left back on the coast , except that these were entered by round doors instead of the normal rectangular ones . |
| 18 | The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island . |
| 19 | We had booked up for the ordinary ship and , and rail you know , to go over by ship and rail but er during the months awaiting the , I think we were going in July and er we had booked up maybe about April , but they had put these planes on and Polytechnic wrote to us and said , if we paid two pounds ten extra , we could go by air and we did it and the full tour for a week in Paris , going by air , was twelve pounds ten . |
| 20 | We had driven back to the village and had just turned off the road on to the In Salah track . |
| 21 | We had come back like the full circle of our route , intact . |
| 22 | Twice I asked Ward about this , the first time just after we had come out of the cloud on the eastern slope of the pass and had caught our first glimpse of Cajamarca far away in the valley below , and then again when we stopped at the Baños del Inca to ask our way , the hot springs steaming beside the public baths . |
| 23 | Fee income was still growing — we were very happy with the growth rate and everything was going according to the five-year plan we had drawn up at the time of the merger . |
| 24 | ‘ These were very serious situations which we wanted cleared up by the NRA but they refused to do anything about it . ’ |