Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
| 32 | We had to put up with the traffic . |
| 33 | And we went to one temple and it got dark whilst we were there , it was called the Monkey Temple , and it 's just so many monkeys around , and they just are allowed to run wild , but by the time we got back to our bikes it was dark and we had to cycle back in the dark without any lights on these unlit , unmade roads and that was quite frightening really . |
| 34 | The rest we had to transport up to the second and fourth floors , up steep , dark steps ! |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | We had to get on to the barge before these two characters unwittingly alerted the army sentries across the road , or before the Friends of the Tourists turned up looking for us . |
| 38 | We had to get through to the ministry that in informatics , you do n't have originals and copies , you just have the information issued at a certain time by the sender . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | We had driven back to the village and had just turned off the road on to the In Salah track . |
| 42 | Then we had to ski down to the next lot of lifts which went even higher and when we had mastered that we got on a chairlift which took us right to the top . |
| 43 | We had come back like the full circle of our route , intact . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | We had to stand back from the edge of the pavement as their wheels splashed along the teeming gutters . |
| 47 | ‘ These were very serious situations which we wanted cleared up by the NRA but they refused to do anything about it . ’ |
| 48 | It sounded an ideal way to explore some of the remoter parts of this region , but our time was limited and we wanted to move on to the higher mountains . |
| 49 | ‘ Even though we wanted to go along to the studio , we kept well away from the remixes because we 'd have been ‘ Oooh do n't take that out , do n't change this ’ . |
| 50 | ‘ He sat down and we wanted to get on with the game and try for another goal , so I wanted him off . |
| 51 | A spokesman said : The traffic on the M4 is just as busy early in the summer as it is in August , and we wanted to get on with the work before the autumn to take advantage of the longer days and better weather . |
| 52 | Electric immersion heater , er , ah , oh of course we had an Ideal boiler under there and it , that 's what heated this kitchen actually an Ideal boiler and it heated the water in the winter and also heated the , and in the summer we let that out and had an immersion heater , well being in the electrical trade we had an immersion heater all the time and if we wanted to top up from the boiler we used to just put the immersion heater on for a erm week or so and get hot water and then let it go off in the winter time , you know , but er we have n't made a great deal of alteration to this place really , we 've put a new front door on fairly recently , that was one of the things that er was very ugly , they , the back of the front of the doors to look at , ooh they were ugly doors |