Example sentences of "[adv] we [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One by one our group started down the rapids and assembled together in the quiet water ; suddenly we saw a canoe coming down the river upside down and realized one of our group had capsized . |
| 2 | Suddenly we saw a light and heard a sound from Dr Roylott 's room . |
| 3 | We had sent Johann back to the Castle of Zenda and suddenly we had a message from him . |
| 4 | North Sea oil came on board and suddenly we had a product which people wanted to buy . |
| 5 | ‘ Suddenly we had a business we had no experience in . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Suddenly we had a situation where money for the studio was no object : we could take as long as we liked . |
| 7 | Suddenly we had a cause of death ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Suddenly we received a note according to which these dollars had been interpreted as a bribe . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Suddenly we received a note , according to which these dollars had been interpreted as a bribe . |
| 10 | Of course we went to a little market and naturally we bought a couple of plaited strings of garlic which will go mouldy before we 've finished them . |
| 11 | Once we had a girl who never , but never , took a bath , and after suffering her proximity for far too long we made a complaint to Miss Malley . |
| 12 | At four o'clock we achieved a packet each from what looked remarkably like a Texan millionaire and his wife . |
| 13 | Ai n't got my grill on them though Oh I pulled it down we got a top on that like that one has got a sort of like bit here |
| 14 | You mentioned earlier on that that perhaps er like with Guy Fawkes , there 's a lot of things that come from the past , from our history and we lose Perhaps we lose a bit of sight about where they 've come from . |
| 15 | There may be a moral here : perhaps we need a touch of barbarism to secure civilisation . |
| 16 | I 'm not disputing that , I 'm simply saying that perhaps we have a management problem here where we could be doing things differently and I 'd like to hear some positive suggestions from housing officers as to how you can address that . |
| 17 | Well obviously it 's er really hard-going when it 's you 're own people from your own station , er very er close station and obviously we know a lot of people er who have been involved in the accident , but the moral of the men is excellent . |
| 18 | We were in their hands and obviously we needed a miracle to get us out . |
| 19 | If only we had a trolley . |
| 20 | He 'll not be a minute , ’ she explained to Mungo , ‘ only we 've a bantam gone missing on the batters . |
| 21 | Only we have a message to ring |
| 22 | Well strange enough we have a connection with the Dalesman editor |
| 23 | Now to start sailing closer towards the wind , we need to pull in the mainsheet , pop the daggerboard down and then turn the boat gently towards the wind , we reach the point where even with the sail sheeted in tightly , the front edge , the luff of the sail is still flapping , that 's as close to the wind as we can get and so we maintain a course to keep the sail full . |
| 24 | so we took a cottage on Canvey Island |
| 25 | Nex anyway it 's quite near Portsmouth and we heard that the first Queen Elizabeth ship , they do n't say it 's the first but they call this one the Q E Two but there was a Q E One , you see at one time and so we took a coach from there to Southampton because we heard that she was in dock there and so we went and there were crowds of people and all in a queue waiting to go in . |
| 26 | And so we took a piece off and had it analysed , we have a little laboratory which we use to analyse things like that , and it turned out to be what we expected , the most common colour of medieval furniture was red . |
| 27 | so we took a photo of her and off she 'd go again . |
| 28 | So we set a date for it , Saturday June 29th at six in the morning . |
| 29 | So we serve a population of over a million people . |
| 30 | Give them the drawing number so we sent a transmittal note , course we never got a transmittal note back . |