Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wriggling in our seats we gazed dumbly at the teacher , as dogs will whose owner is eating a slice of cake ( Miss ! |
| 2 | When we met again at the funeral , I knew that I had to see you again soon . |
| 3 | Something similar must have happened to Middleton 's crew because we met together at the station and took the train on the last lap to Cambridge . |
| 4 | Reminds me of the joke we made up at the time . |
| 5 | Just er we lived down at the bottom of the village there . |
| 6 | I 've talked during my presentation about each of the paradoxes which we laid out at the beginning of the morning which talked about the diverse needs of different parts of an enterprise from their information systems if we are to deliver the adv er the advantages of enterprise-wide client server . |
| 7 | We drew up at the house at last , and the man came round to help me down . |
| 8 | The rally was certainly not for rookies , as we found out at the onset ; only the intervention of the King of Jordan could resolve some problems along the way . |
| 9 | By way of diversion we stopped off at the army 's counter-intelligence headquarters . |
| 10 | Somehow , though , we did feel better as we filed out at the end of the service and made our way down to the river . |
| 11 | As we poked away at the goulash soup with its lumps of pork and potato and which had been interestingly seasoned with caraway , Ladislav wanted to know my impressions of what I had seen and , in particular , my own attitudes to Marxism . |
| 12 | Well we got to and there 's three weeks well when we came up at the beginning of May there was a notice on the main main twenty one which said |
| 13 | Kingsley Amis , who wrote an adventure for Bond as well as creating Jim Dixon , reflects aptly on the reasons for his : ‘ What happened was that we came in at the tail end of the literary tradition to the effect that no decent girl enjoys sex — only tarts were supposed to do that . |
| 14 | Assisted by Southgate and two sleepy-eyed , half-dressed servants we hammered again at the door until it buckled , creaking and groaning , before snapping back , breaking the lock . |
| 15 | ' I was objecting that , whatever you thought of Reagan , the United States was the archetypal democracy ; Mr Healey was remarking how very few people bothered to vote there at all , only one in five of the eligible voters having been enough to elect Bush ; and then we arrived obliquely at the part played in politics by exhaustion . |
| 16 | We arrived again at the street where we had heard the news of the assassination attempt . |
| 17 | ‘ But only because when we turned up at the solicitor 's to work out the marriage settlement — her idea , not mine — she realised for the first time that I was n't as rich as she thought . |
| 18 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 19 | For a start , I smelt your spoor on her when we danced together at the wedding . |
| 20 | The leaden feeling that weighed heavily on me as Jean-Claude rode into Paris did not lift when we fetched up at the house in the rue Victorie . |
| 21 | We took that hill at a cracking pace , and as we handed over at the crest , and dropped back to the end of the column , Fr Courtney called out ‘ Well done I ’ to us . |
| 22 | We marvelled again at the scenery of West Spitsbergen , its sharply tipped mountains of dark rock , the glacier-filled valleys between and the tiny strips of life-giving vegetation which made it possible for some birds and animals to exist . |
| 23 | We stocked up at the hypermarket on coffee and beer at less than half English prices . |
| 24 | We pulled up at the end of the schooling stretch and trotted back to where Tremayne stood with his binoculars . |
| 25 | On our way back we called in at the field centre , a converted ex-shunter 's cabin . |
| 26 | The day that made the appointment to see and Co , Nick after coming out of that meeting with Nick , we called in at the office , myself and my wife , and whilst I was tidying some things up because I 'd got the remainder of the afternoon off , Charles ' wife said to my wife , my wife actually broke down in tears , and she says , What 's up ? |
| 27 | We stared gloomily at the screen . |
| 28 | ’ When we rolled up at the incident , it was serious . |
| 29 | We 'll compare it with what we took up at the site . ’ |
| 30 | We struggled basically at the back . |