Example sentences of "we [verb] [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before we 'd sailed out from Calabar more than a day , three more were born . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Again , Oh we 'd graduated then from pencils and paper , to pen and ink and paper , the ink being in er a well sunk in the desk in front of us . |
| 5 | when we got home we sat eating we 'd got home from a show then and we were sat eating supper , and it were about half past three in the morning and we sat talking , I said to Rudy I 'm sure I can smell burning ! |
| 6 | ‘ It 's when we get called in from this patrol back to base . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No , I think that we would have liked to have seen more women , I would have liked to have stayed on the Shadow Cabinet , and I would have liked to have seen more women in the Shadow Cabinet , but to say it 's a disaster , and somehow we 've moved away from the path we 've set ourself is simply not the case . |
| 9 | so I 've have them produce the lecture and then we 've gone on from like doing |
| 10 | We 've gone away from the days of systems imposed by the data processing department , this is going to be a system for the users . ’ |
| 11 | Now on Green , now we go , we 've come along from the top of Street right along Road , the toy shop then you get to the Kings Arms and on the other side of the road there was another pub and I ca n't remember the name of it , then there was the fish shop and then the Liberal Club then the pork butchers you 'd think they were all full of meat . |
| 12 | And the former Rangers and Aston Villa winger said : ‘ We 've come back from this kind of position before and we are optimistic we can get a result . |
| 13 | well at night when we 've come back from wherever we 've been with Wendy , it was a ritual to walk round , cos on the , on the |
| 14 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 15 | Again , analysis of the situation can help : ‘ We 've got away from what I wanted to discuss — can we go back to it ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We 've got away from Barbs , ’ said Pam . |
| 17 | He though that we had grown apart from him and he became upset that none of us were around him any more , talking to him any more . |
| 18 | There were new forms of technology coming into existence then , one , we had moved away from the automatic er type of machinery to what they called er digital controlled and numerical controlled machines . |
| 19 | I thought we had got away from the ‘ Where 's Chapman 's head ? |
| 20 | We had wandered far from the old farm buildings . |
| 21 | The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island . |
| 22 | She would usually leave the house after we had come home from school at four p.m . |
| 23 | I 'm sorry but I just ca n't support this view , what about pride , team confidence ( just imagine what this victory would do to that — considering , correct me if I 'm wrong , but the 3 sides we have beaten away from home are shit , and we have also been on a crap run recently ) , and not to mention a place in Europe — this is a 2nd place 6 pointer . |
| 24 | Even when it has that opportunity , because directions have to be sought , it is clear , as we have seen above from Sullivan v West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive , that it has no power to exclude such evidence at the interlocutory stage other than to limit the number of witnesses . |
| 25 | In the past 20 years we have gained enormously from our membership of the Community . |
| 26 | We have moved away from such remedies as being too brutal for a humane society and nowadays those who advocate them are seen as blimpish relics of an imperialist , authoritarian society which favoured cold baths and weals on the buttocks as character forming . |
| 27 | We have moved away from daily table chanting and spelling tests , when the mastery of English involved little more than fitting appropriate words into gaps in simple sentences , when reading was learned parrot fashion from a primer . |
| 28 | It should be noted , however , that already with Schumpeter we have moved away from models based on the distinctiveness of the elite characteristic as an explanatory factor , to a lower-level operation which explicitly refers to realistic definitions rather than to explanations , and in which the model , such as it is , looks remarkably like a composite description of liberal democracy . |
| 29 | In Britain , we have moved away from such arrangements . |
| 30 | However , by the time we have moved forward from the crack tip to roughly the position of the next interatomic bond , the stress has fallen to rather less than half the peak value . |