Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] we [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In some ways , ’ he said yesterday , ‘ Python does look very old-fashioned now , yet when I arranged a compilation of all 45 shows for the BBC I found that we had on the Not The Nine O ’ Clock News unintentionally pinched a number of things , putting the signature in the middle of the programme , parodying famous TV interviews . |
| 2 | I half slept , then woke as we sped by the rest house where we had stopped for juice on that first visit to Al Ain . |
| 3 | Our walks have been outstandingly enjoyable , and yesterday we walked on the estate which you and Bob pained when we went to the Crinan Canal . |
| 4 | Taking my place on the touchline , I noticed as we kicked off the reassuring sight of Ken Mentle in the grandstand giving me the thumbs up before disappearing through his tip-up seat . |
| 5 | The first thing I noticed as we arrived at the famous pot was a fixed caving rope leading down into the dark abyss , and I could n't resist scrambling across to peer in . |
| 6 | Thankfully , Benjamin agreed and we returned to the manor house . |
| 7 | ‘ What you mean is , she will wonder what happened if we return to the palazzo at such an early hour . |
| 8 | So I danced till we got to the edge of the room and then I danced right out the door and up the street . |
| 9 | We showed when we pull on the green jerseys , when the real chips are down , that we would die for each other . |
| 10 | In er , , you know , we only reversed when we got to the bottom of that last machine , and why had the guy back , erm , went over it , and go through it again , luckily it was only three high . |
| 11 | It seems extraordinary now to look back and remember how we improvised as we did during the war . |
| 12 | We met a group of walkers at the top , who cheered as we raced for the cross . |
| 13 | But all that was put to one side when the protests started and we took to the streets . |
| 14 | The structure of this argument is important because we find it repeated when we look at the traditional ways in which it is sought to legitimate private power . |
| 15 | ‘ Where did you stay last night ? ’ he asked while we waited for the cameras to be set up . |
| 16 | We mourn the loss of the person who died and we respond to the change that this effects in our lives with panic or elation or anxiety or a whole gamut of emotions that may take us by surprise . |
| 17 | Couple of points that were made in relation to this particular report was the backing by the employee side , erm , to the wages board initiative that took when we wrote to the government saying that we felt that the abolition of the wages board was not in the best interests erm , of the people of Lincolnshire . |
| 18 | And perhaps we should exercise this idea , this thought when we pray for the salvation of people . |
| 19 | We sang as we ran up the mountain . |
| 20 | A feeling that we were in for an epic grew as we waited on the gendarme to begin a traverse across a snow ledge to the top of the fixed ropes , where the Germans , their clothes white with snow and ice , had set up another abseil . |
| 21 | The trucks were open at the back and we shivered as we climbed into the hills , Sergeant Major Barlerin in the jeep up ahead with Sergeant-Chef Gibeau . |
| 22 | Taff enquired as we walked in the direction of our trench . |
| 23 | Here then is a continuity between the early modern and the post/modern , one oft en overlooked when we concentrate on the differences in the way sexuality is conceptualized in the two periods . |
| 24 | No one answered when we called at the Manor House , which is at the end of a long secluded drive overlooking the estate . |
| 25 | John Dower , the father of the National Parks , got it right when he said that we look to the farming communities for the continuance not only of the landscape but of the drama itself , rural life and work . |
| 26 | ‘ Sometimes I wonder how he passed his 0-levels , ’ Daddy said as we crawled over the cobbles and out of the village . |
| 27 | ‘ WE MAKE SURE the high ground is safe for the officers before they go in , ’ Officer Terry McIntosh , a helicopter pilot with the Los Angeles Police Department , said as we flew over the city at a few hundred feet . |
| 28 | And I know it 's difficult to get people motivated when they 've been hit down and hit down so often , er but and I do n't think that you could do er any great erm as as we said when we went into the flats , we did n't go in with any big , world shattering ideas of of causing a revolution or you know , of doing er putting on a big project or anything , it was actually to be with the people in their situation and gradually to help improve somehow , if we could . |
| 29 | But the promises with work that we had when we went in the army , you j you 'd be looked after We got the worst damn place anybody could . |
| 30 | One of them asked as we got to the landing . |