Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 3 | We got settled down in a couple of cane chairs , and I gave her a cigarette . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We got squeezed out of the middle . ’ |
| 6 | If I remember rightly , it all started going wrong with Cantona and Leeds after we got knocked out of the European Cup . |
| 7 | I saw him when we got picked up off the I mean it was half a lifeboat we were left sitting on . |
| 8 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ We 'd gone down to the Net , the day it happened . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I had this octopus once in Germany and it , we 'd gone out for a meal and I was gon na have steak and mushrooms and |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The fighting spirit we showed to get back in the game was encourageing , perhaps Batts should have played from the start . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We kept spiralling up towards a high point on the ridge , and when we reached it there was a lodge , perched improbably like a ski-lift station . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ The boy we saw driving out in the Mercedes tourer . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We did meet up with the Oxford contingent at the Leathern Bottle at Lewknor , just off , junction 6 on M40 , worth a visit if you 're in that area . |
| 26 | We did go down to the library . |
| 27 | ‘ But we did stop off on the way for a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 28 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 29 | One of the warmer meetings I 've done but th I think that we did come out in the end with all bar four people in the room , I believe that 's right Councillor is it ? |
| 30 | There was little noise from outside the windows and we appeared cut off from the city and from civilian life in general ; I lay in bed and pulled the sheets up over my nose . |