Example sentences of "we [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From nineteen eighty one to eighty seven , we expanded into this . |
| 2 | The nastiest little attack we endured at this time came from , of all papers , the Lancet . |
| 3 | We endured in our separate miseries the wilderness of unspoken recrimination , accusation and regret . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We dwelled in the fair , listened to the conflicting |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I wondered about these changes as we rode towards the house . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know how long we rode for . |
| 10 | We rode for five hours in the rain . |
| 11 | So we rode for Whitton , and were able , as soon as the Welsh were gone , to bring off some of our wounded safely . ’ |
| 12 | We rode into the Place St Michel and sat in a café drinking hot chocolate . |
| 13 | When we rode into London , I began to feel afraid . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The next morning we rode to Wuthering Heights . |
| 17 | Once or twice , we rode to the beach . |
| 18 | I ca n't remember it all , but I think we rode along the old railway line . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | From the village of Pitres , our second night 's stop , we rode through sage- and mint-scented hills , and orchards filled with peaches and almonds , past hedgerows bursting with blackberries , and trees laden with figs and pomegranates . |
| 21 | On our return journey , we rode through a village where the houses , like ships , were moored along a canal and could be approached only over little bridges . |
| 22 | As we rode through the forest , Sapt told me everything that he could about my life , my family , my friends , and the things I liked or did not like . |
| 23 | We rode with the roof down , and if the days |
| 24 | It has been nigh on a full month since we first made a landfall on to the north shore : since we rode in the longboat on the crest of the shining surf and I set my foot withal on this fair land in the name of the King . |
| 25 | Come and see the thing that met us when we rode in here six days ago . ’ |
| 26 | We rode in the field for the first two weeks , and then I had to face the roads and the tractors . |
| 27 | I remember how calm and serene my father looked as he lay in his coffin and how I seemed to feel something break within me when they lowered the plush-covered lid and we rode behind the hearse to Rosedale Cemetery for the interment . |
| 28 | We rode like the wind and by ten o'clock had come to the edge of the forest of Zenda . |
| 29 | With baited breath , we scanned for his answer . |
| 30 | We scudded over the Dorus Mhor which was conveniently quiescent , its frothing tidal step lurking in the depths . |