Example sentences of "we came [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 2 | We came on this trip to take back children . |
| 3 | ‘ But I came down to the theatre and was assured it was suitable for children so we came with open minds , ’ she said . |
| 4 | However , we came across many examples of teachers who had failed to tackle the imperative of genuinely shared planning ostensibly working alongside each other in pursuit of shared goals . |
| 5 | As PNP progressed , we came across many examples of collaborations which were clearly working well and which had liberated staff to work in new ways , to increase their understanding and skill , and to attend more closely to the needs of particular groups and individuals . |
| 6 | We came across many cases of schools using minimal resourcing to maximum effect ; and of schools with a substantial PNP staff enhancement manifestly failing to take advantage of what that enhancement could offer . |
| 7 | ‘ We came across some people from Papua New Guinea who were selling handicrafts and were confronted with a boatload of western tourists — all convinced they could buy for a knock-down rate . |
| 8 | I have to say that when we came across any martyrs , we tended to regard them with something approaching envy . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's the Sir Mauger Grindlewood — East India Company , ’ she said as we came across another old buffer in stone with a bad smell under his nose . |
| 10 | The last time we came across this one that said ‘ I was born in the country and I know the code . ’ |
| 11 | Firstly , we came across electric cables that were only three inches below the surface of the ground . |
| 12 | They were Miss was the teacher and the , the next three classes I would say with great pleasure , and then we came to one of the old ones which er they were more severe , probably she used the tawse a lot . |
| 13 | And there it was , in the late nineties , he was adding up his pence and his shillings and the odd pound or two here and there , these were his costs of making the pictures that he was making in those days , and then when you turned over and we came to nineteen hundred , nineteen hundred and one , nineteen hundred and two , erm the figures had broadened and under the pounds into three figures and then into four . |
| 14 | The chief target we came to that night was a staging post for enemy convoys along the route . |
| 15 | ‘ We came to that point in our school career when we had to study a foreign language . |
| 16 | The evaluation strategies outlined in Chapter 4 may satisfy the consumers of education that an independent check is being kept on the work of schools , but , as the judgement we came to indicated , they seem less satisfactory as procedures for assisting improvement in educational practice . |
| 17 | But after walking for about fifty yards we came to another thinner wall of barbed wire with a gate in it . |
| 18 | A little way on we came to another village , where some of the evicted had been taken in and given shelter . |
| 19 | He came to see me in our hotel the night before we came to this country , and … |
| 20 | ‘ We came to this bar some days , ’ says Carl , laughing . |
| 21 | IEA Chairman Geoffrey Chipperfield said that " we came to this conclusion to calm the market … and in the event of a breakout of hostilities , … [ to ] assure a security of supply " . |
| 22 | But when we came at first there were these erm there were these er street street musicians you know . |
| 23 | We came at last to his office which was basically a roomette like my own : that is to say , it was a seven-by-four-foot space on one side of a central corridor , containing a washbasin , a folding table and two seats , one of which concealed what the timetable coyly called ‘ facilities ’ . |
| 24 | We came at last to a clearing brought about by a massive outcrop of rock . |
| 25 | ‘ Before we came aboard this ship I was thinking of the possibilities . ’ |
| 26 | About a hundred yards from the village we came under automatic fire from somewhere on our left , and continued the rest of the way walking in the ditch . |
| 27 | If ever we came under competitive pressure , Andrew was always able to think up something new , that left us still on top . |
| 28 | Well We came in one morning , the electrician and I , about five instead of seven , because we 'd done and er we used to nip in and kip down with the horses for ten minutes which was forbidden , to sleep in the colliery . |
| 29 | It was like Coalite , er when we first came here , oh yes it was , yes , but we have electric fires of course as well to , what we did because we were both out working all the time , we had electric fires and I think my husband , husband had them allied to a timeswitch and they came on before we came in , an hour or so , before we came in this room and in that room |
| 30 | actually but Well when we came in forty odd forty odd years ago it was twenty three and six a week . |