Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the electrics went off the board with damp and the violent motion by the time we thankfully dropped anchor off Clovelly near the Bristol Class Lifeboat on station there . |
| 2 | At the edge of the glacier we thankfully prised off our crampons ; the end of 17 hours climbing . |
| 3 | We rarely took a vote sitting around the board table . |
| 4 | London we passed through , on our way to and from school , but except during the half-term " long leave " from Eton we rarely spent a night there . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly , we rarely identified our clients as being martyrs . |
| 6 | We rarely saw its summit , lost as it would be in thick mist , but its mystery made it all the more attractive and seductive . |
| 7 | For many years we rarely saw any wild-caught Cichlasoma , but this is no longer the case . |
| 8 | The reader who has survived so far may recall that during my wartime service in the Navy I had nursed a great curiosity about the enemy we rarely saw , and that I had promised myself that at some time in the future I would find out more about them , the ships they had fought in and the sort of people they were . |
| 9 | Anyway , then he got sick- and I do n't remember any more : he was upstairs , and we rarely saw him . |
| 10 | We rarely had anything else . |
| 11 | ‘ We rarely had more than a couple of deliveries a day — we did n't have the space . |
| 12 | We rarely played close to the building which , when not lit up , had something of the baleful haunted house about it . |
| 13 | I used to fish there with some friends several years ago and we rarely caught less than 100lbs in a session . |
| 14 | It is worth recalling that even at the height of Britain 's imperial power we rarely tried to go it alone . |
| 15 | The first preserved is dated 10 June 1953 ; afterwards we rarely dated our letters . |
| 16 | As it turned out we accidently anticipated Xcelerated Systems trademarking the expression as the name for the technology underlying Liken , its pioneering two-year-old Mac-on-Unix product . |
| 17 | Such samples of the population as we accidently encountered were not promising . |
| 18 | We instinctively understood that de Niro was referring to Taxi Driver , even in this much later movie and it 's funny . |
| 19 | We fatuously wondered if a street or a square would ever be named after us - ‘ two spooky old Villons , ’ as Dana once described us . |
| 20 | We duly wrote to the CAA , asking them to confirm or deny this practice . |
| 21 | So , expecting to be whisked off to some faraway hot spot for a mild spell of brainwashing , we duly prepared to bring you next week 's Unigram from under the shade of a palm tree on a secluded sandy beach — or at least somewhere nicer than four storeys above the Charing Cross Road in rainy central London . |
| 22 | And of course , we duly kept the appointment . |
| 23 | We duly met , and I was as before , astonished to find how much interest he could take , by clearing his mind of more pressing matters , in a subject not obviously familiar to him . |
| 24 | ‘ We duly became airborne and flew back to base with no further trouble . |
| 25 | We duly went back to Sun , which claims there is to a deal , just like it said , has been for months and that it is moving lots of product . |
| 26 | We duly ate , in various forms , every conceivably edible part of the bird , including the feet , but excluding , for some reason , the feathers . |
| 27 | The suggested the distinctive Volvo 460 , which we duly put to the test . |
| 28 | We duly did this , with no result . |
| 29 | Six years ago we successfully brought about a European-wide ban on the bulk trade in tortoises where the UK alone was importing at the height of the trade 250,000 a year of which 80 per cent were dead within two years . |
| 30 | The recession continued unabated in the UK and started to gather pace in many of our export markets , however , we successfully expanded our agriculture business and became the UKs Number One , through the purchase of from . |