Example sentences of "we [vb past] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We fought like hell for most of the time . |
| 2 | We gazed with admiration at Tanya . |
| 3 | We gazed in wonderment at the fantastic shape of the small island of Tindholmur as we passed . |
| 4 | We met at dinner at the vicarage and at Miss Broome 's house after the bazaar , ’ said Penelope firmly reminding him . |
| 5 | Twenty years later when Dick Ryan had become President of Canadian Pacific Airlines , we met by chance at Sea Island Airport , Vancouver . |
| 6 | On October 6th we met in Malvern at the Girls ' College for an education afternoon . |
| 7 | that er , we applied for test of proportionality , the minimum necessary , my Lord this is a , your Lordship 's focus on admission rules which of course different to what we 're concerned with here , admission to the market , erm , and it , it is the minimum necessary to ensure that all those who should be in the market and are capable of competing are in the market . |
| 8 | We cruised in company with pilot whales off the Butt of Lewis , ranged alongside the huge basking shark to compare its thirty foot length with our own and , on one occasion , witnessed an unidentified whale breach practically clear out of the sea like some mammoth salmon . |
| 9 | We picnicked on beaches of jet black sand under windy coconut palms , where surf rolled in from Africa . |
| 10 | Coming from Brigflatts over Birks we passed through woods below Sedbergh School where a quiet lane took us towards Millthrop . |
| 11 | ‘ We asked for permission during the day and could n't get it , ’ Vincent protested . |
| 12 | ‘ Mr Cohen ? ’ we asked in response to the ‘ Hello ’ at the other end of the telephone . |
| 13 | We lived on chunks of fighting cock , pork and water-buffalo boiled in bamboo tubes until I thought I never wanted to eat meat again . |
| 14 | We lived at Fiesole for a while , then Livorno , Lake Como , Florence again . |
| 15 | Rather , they were of decisive moment in how we lived from day to day and deserved the commemoration of daily objects , so that William 's figure , seated on his prancing white charger , sword-arm raised in a gesture of advance , decorated tea-towels and plates . |
| 16 | Pig iron you know er pig iron was what they had I 've seen them pouring furnaces pouring it onto the pig beds , and you know when I was a kid when we lived in Caldmore from about half past nine at night all across West Bromwich , Wednesbury all over that area , you 'd see the sky light up and it was due to the pouring of er pouring the pig iron . |
| 17 | We lived in part of a school my father ran , which was situated in a large white house outside Arundel , Sussex , on the edge of the South Downs . |
| 18 | Says singer Brett Anderson , at No. 25 with Metal Mickey : ‘ We lived in squalor for a year and a half . |
| 19 | The story was that Puig-Aubert would often snatch a smoke when play was downfield , and we lived in hope of catching him in such an act of Gallic braggadocio . |
| 20 | ‘ We lived in India for three years . ’ |
| 21 | We lived in Rakant near Rawalpindi . |
| 22 | We lived in Sadberge for seven years and it 's lovely to come back . |
| 23 | We lived near Donnington on Bain , right in the country . |
| 24 | We got into pot at the same time , we got into acid at the same time and then there was more smack around than pot , so we got into that . |
| 25 | I used to have a sewing machine , but I had to sell it when we got into difficulty with an electric bill . |
| 26 | Nobody seemed to mind the presence of Marius and myself , and we got into conversation with two Officers about the respective merits of the different Legion regiments . |
| 27 | We got into pot at the same time , we got into acid at the same time and then there was more smack around than pot , so we got into that . |
| 28 | I thought , oh dear , so we got to bed by this time , and we lay , and we just could n't get to sleep for the noise the tent was making . |
| 29 | When we got to University of East Anglia we were set seven tasks . |
| 30 | When we got to Manston with four engines still running there was a heavy undercurrent in the cabin , although no words were uttered , the inference was that possibly we had the wrong engine setting . |