Example sentences of "we [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We land on this loyal world for salvation … |
| 2 | Sure enough , within less than a minute we spot the sun glinting off the visiting aircraft already there and , after an overhead join to read the signals square , we land on Crowfield 's runway with the self-satisfaction of a flight well-conducted . |
| 3 | On the fourth and last day we land in paradise : 45 Sandford Road , Dublin , the home of Helen Dillon , a gardener whose plants are encouraged and castigated like a wayward infants ' class . |
| 4 | ‘ You might be able to help me when we land in Lisbon . |
| 5 | Why do we persist in trying to know everything there is to know in the belief that one day , presumably quite soon , we will succeed ? |
| 6 | From nineteen eighty one to eighty seven , we expanded into this . |
| 7 | The nastiest little attack we endured at this time came from , of all papers , the Lancet . |
| 8 | We endured in our separate miseries the wilderness of unspoken recrimination , accusation and regret . |
| 9 | Last year S C F programmes received almost eighteen million pounds of the hundred and forty seven million which we channelled through N G Os . |
| 10 | We dwelled in the fair , listened to the conflicting |
| 11 | " The one thing we regret about the move is that we ca n't still get HTV . |
| 12 | ‘ We regret in respect of the national anthems our undertaking has been violated and breached and we apologise unconditionally to anyone who has been offended by this breach ’ . |
| 13 | The extensive practice of slash- and-burn agriculture means we lose at least half of this annually . |
| 14 | What if we lose at Birmingham Paul . |
| 15 | She-She : " If you give the fifty cash , then seventy-five on the card plus the credit supplement which is 15 per cent else we lose on the rental or we have a spa-cheque policy which works out the same minus the 15 per cent with a ten-dollar supplement . |
| 16 | So what we need to be able to identify is that , al although we will gain the worst scenario ought to be that whatever we lose in terms of auto-off reports and units reports to some extent we should be gaining by the improved productivity overall . |
| 17 | On the train as we rode past the spines of Manhattan to the flat rooftops of Brooklyn , he told me something of his travels in north America , indeed , he had been much further west than Jersey City , even beyond Chicago . |
| 18 | As we rode towards London , one of Mandeville 's secretaries unfurled the pennant on a pole he carried bearing the royal arms of England , showing all and sundry that we carried the King 's own warrant . |
| 19 | I wondered about these changes as we rode towards the house . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't know how long we rode for . |
| 21 | We rode for five hours in the rain . |
| 22 | So we rode for Whitton , and were able , as soon as the Welsh were gone , to bring off some of our wounded safely . ’ |
| 23 | We rode into the Place St Michel and sat in a café drinking hot chocolate . |
| 24 | When we rode into London , I began to feel afraid . |
| 25 | We rode under another arch , guarded by serjeants-at-arms wearing the royal arms of England ; great iron gates were flung open and we passed through these into the inner bailey , stopping before the great four-towered keep which soared up to the skies . |
| 26 | We rode to the fourth floor , the doors slid open , we regarded each other in silence from our chosen corners , the doors slid to , and by the time we returned to the ground floor divorce was forgotten and the marriage reconsummated . |
| 27 | The next morning we rode to Wuthering Heights . |
| 28 | Once or twice , we rode to the beach . |
| 29 | I ca n't remember it all , but I think we rode along the old railway line . ’ |
| 30 | I wanted to broach the matter with my master but he was lost in his own thoughts so I kept my fears hidden as we rode along the lee of the hill . |