Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fact is , ’ wrote Clark himself on 15 August , ‘ that if we lose out in the Middle East , we shall be immediately destroyed . ’ |
| 2 | We rode on to the moors and found Linton lying in the same place as before . |
| 3 | We rode off to the field which was bursting with beautiful yellow melons , my favourite sort . |
| 4 | Nothing more was said as we rode down in the elevator . |
| 5 | We crept down into the hall , through the kitchen and out by a small postern door . |
| 6 | From the roof bar of the Pasha Inn , we gazed down on the harbour . |
| 7 | I 've been meaning to write since we met up at the PoW seminar in Swansea . |
| 8 | Well , on the way back — before we met up with the Space Shuttle — I dozed off . |
| 9 | Here we met up with the East Team . |
| 10 | Eventually we met up below the entrance to the Kitchen . |
| 11 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |
| 12 | I was beginning to become impatient as we lay about on the sand for several hours waiting our turn to go aboard one of the tank-landing craft , after it had discharged its cargo . |
| 13 | Reminds me of the joke we made up at the time . |
| 14 | Four fifty million , erm between programme re-orientation and other factors was an apportionment we made back in the er first half of nineteen ninety three and in the light of later information I think we would revise that now erm we are still negotiating with the contractors on the revised contract price and we do not have definitive costs yet but in fact the cost increase as a result of the rescheduling of the programme directly should be quite modest . |
| 15 | Herds of giraffe and waterbuck raced across the swamps in our shadow as we swooped on to the sandy airstrip . |
| 16 | After resting , we tramped on up the hill to Loch a'Chait , arriving tired , hot and weary . |
| 17 | Soon , we taxied back down the road while cars blocked other traffic for us to take off . |
| 18 | We passed on to the family all the information we had . |
| 19 | As we passed out of the bar it was raining again and all Madrid 's lights were swimming before my eyes , reflected on the street . |
| 20 | George chuckled his way out of the horse car and we meandered back down the train together , George stopping to check for news with each sleeping-car attendant and to solve any problems . |
| 21 | I f I shall feel as if we 've been from here cos when I was first married we lived up round the next road . |
| 22 | We 've , into the village , we lived out in the countryside till I was eight , and we come down into the I should say town should n't I , we come down into the town when I was eight and I was there till I was twenty two , and I came up here , when I got married . |
| 23 | Just er we lived down at the bottom of the village there . |
| 24 | Then we doubled back to the barges . |
| 25 | If we push down on the canvas by putting a heavy object on it we create a dent . |
| 26 | We tumbled down into the hole like so many Alices and gazed in wonder around us . |
| 27 | When we got up to the place , we found it was uninhabited . |
| 28 | After stops for punctures we got up to the snow . |
| 29 | but when we got up to the top of the house I needed to go to the toilet . |
| 30 | And as we got up into the classes we also had a woodwork er centre , and metal shop there . |