Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to discuss with my brother ways and means of becoming martyrs , and we agreed to go together to the land of the Moors , begging our way for the love of God , so that we might be beheaded there … . |
| 2 | There is a small dam to pass , and then it 's plain sailing all the way back to the car park to live with the shame that we failed to live up to the term ‘ fit walkers ’ . |
| 3 | The recession , which we expected to fade away through the year , has hit us full on , and as I write there is little sign of light at the end of the proverbial tunnel . |
| 4 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 5 | The minute we got settled down in the bottom of our Kalamachka , rocking as if we were inside a boat and ‘ talking about Baghdad ’ , we felt transported to another country . |
| 6 | We got squeezed out of the middle . ’ |
| 7 | If I remember rightly , it all started going wrong with Cantona and Leeds after we got knocked out of the European Cup . |
| 8 | I We 'd talked about it and said Well , we 're not going to get married whilst war 's on , as er probably the generation before , had said in nineteen fourteen , and er we got married eventually on the first of December , nineteen forty . |
| 9 | I saw him when we got picked up off the I mean it was half a lifeboat we were left sitting on . |
| 10 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 11 | Mind reading At one of my first-ever children shows , the father told me of this mind reading trick which we found worked well with the children . |
| 12 | It was too cold to stand and stare , and the wind kept buffeting us dangerously each time we tried to gaze across at the Ocean . |
| 13 | And I think it was an example of the trust that we 'd built up over the weeks and months that we were able to do it . |
| 14 | Er , no , no , we were , I mean last night we 'd gone up from the week before on a rave , we 'd had about si ninety in , and last night we had about two hundred and fifty . |
| 15 | Before we 'd gone far from the hut we had lost one of the Germans with sickness , and an hour later the Dutchman had to turn back when he had trouble with his crampons . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'd gone down to the Net , the day it happened . |
| 17 | She said , do you know she said we 'd gone off to the woods and I suddenly remembered I 'd left my purse in the car . |
| 18 | We would all come back to reboard the train after the Jockey Club Race Train Stakes on Wednesday , and cocktails and dinner would be served as soon as we 'd rolled out of the station . |
| 19 | It was n't as big a hit , but we 'd shown more about the scope of what they could do . ’ |
| 20 | We 'd got up with the rest at 4.00 am and stumbled , steep-blind on a starry night into stony darkness : another alpine day had started in night . |
| 21 | But when I phoned her ( at a ‘ safe ’ house ) for this article , it was the first time we 'd spoken directly since the filming . |
| 22 | The leaves on the thorn trees were almost open , and when we turned to look back at the distance we 'd climbed , there were clusters of vivid green that trailed down the hillside and encompassed the village like waterweed . |
| 23 | The fighting spirit we showed to get back in the game was encourageing , perhaps Batts should have played from the start . |
| 24 | He reached for the gear lever and we began to move slowly off the bridge . |
| 25 | County prosecutor Matthias Heck said : ‘ One of the victims , a man killed as his house was ransacked , was not discovered until we began tracing back through the string of stolen cars . |
| 26 | It gave us all the boost we needed to carry on to the launch and , after that , to the second anniversary of John 's captivity . |
| 27 | Er , the woman put her hands up as well and then we started to move away from the door , er across the room er to avoid being stuck as a silhouette in the doorway . |
| 28 | Perhaps a bit more than that , the old nineteen thirty three class differentiation documents are reissued and they are reissued together with the supplements which we saw came out in the autumn of nineteen thirty three which and , and those supplements where then extended to allow the middle peasant to er up to twenty five , on some of the readings up to thirty percent , of his income from exploitation . |
| 29 | ‘ The boy we saw driving out in the Mercedes tourer . |
| 30 | There was a sister watching us all the time , and when we went to walk out into the garden she said it was n't allowed . |