Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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31 We rode hard all night and it was about eight or nine o'clock in the morning when we reached Strelsau .
32 Then another man picked me up , swung me in front of him and we rode off .
33 We rode off to the field which was bursting with beautiful yellow melons , my favourite sort .
34 Ah , so we rode home and that was it delighted
35 We rode along like three troubadours from some romantic tale .
36 Together we rode back to Thornfield .
37 Nothing more was said as we rode down in the elevator .
38 Oh we change over like this .
39 We change as fast as we possibly can ,
40 What we need to look at though is how we change course if that means moving the position of the sail across the boat .
41 The next Conservative Government will spend more on fighting crime even while we economise elsewhere .
42 We crept downstairs like naughty children and Zaria collected a leather handbag no bigger than a small keg of beer from the hallway table .
43 In the dark hours before dawn we crept up on our objectives and laid charges .
44 We crept close enough to see the features which set them apart from curlew : the smaller size , relatively shorter bill and pattern of light and dark head-stripes .
45 We crept down into the hall , through the kitchen and out by a small postern door .
46 We crept in under a low table and covered ourselves with a tarpaulin .
47 We charge you a commission so we raise badly needed funds too !
48 We charge you a commission so we raise badly needed funds too !
49 They 'd brought a poor young woman with a baby in a pushchair and we traipsed all around , in and out of houses , it was bitterly cold , and at the end of the exercise I felt we could have saved a hell of a lot of time .
50 We pricked up our ears .
51 ‘ Oh , darling , I think we qualify as more than friends , do n't you ? ’
52 As an immediate implication of this we distinguish very sharply between a producer who is the sole source of supply for a particular commodity because he has unique access to a necessary resource and one who is the sole source of supply as a result of his entrepreneurial activities ( which can easily be duplicated by his competitors , if they choose ) .
53 Or are we seeing yet another example of the application of double standards , with Ministers providing no money for the public sector , while sending their own children to school in the private sector ?
54 That 's why we agreed not to train her .
55 All that business about Linda — I know we agreed not to talk about it — but I feel such a shit out here .
56 ‘ I know , in spite of the fact that we agreed not to discuss it , it was all because of what had happened in the past , was n't it ? ’
57 All I require is the payment we agreed on . ’
58 We agreed therefore to conduct the interview in our local hostelry .
59 We agreed that much work is still to be done to help bring about a change of heart within our Churches .
60 In fact erm , what we agreed yesterday was one on this paper , two and three followed from it , erm , but were not actually moved , at the working party , because it was me who did the moving .
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