Example sentences of "we [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sipping lager , we gazed at the front-page face of a dour middle-aged nurse who had been sacked for making porno movies on hospital premises . |
| 2 | Yeah yeah a good Da Dave manages Doncaster now he 's an ex manager of Walsall as well We lived at the Brown Lion at the time and er , I , I was out the front on the Saturday evening and I er manager 's just been to fetch his Sunday joint from the local butchers and he shouted across the road to his pal how have they got on , cos there was no radio in those days , and er he says they 've won two nil and the man dropped his meat in front of him and dribbled it all the way down the road , it was such excitement it was of course all people over the moon . |
| 3 | We pecked at the shallow tide-rnarked marble |
| 4 | The wherry pulled in and we disembarked at the great garden gate . |
| 5 | We stopped at the far end just under the small choir loft where there was a recess leading up to the tower . |
| 6 | ‘ We clustered at the narrow doorway , resting our useless hands upon our heads as substitutes for steel helmets . |
| 7 | However , we should not do that if we joined at the wrong exchange rate — as happened , as the hon. Member for Newham , North-East ( Mr. Leighton ) explained , with eastern Germany . |
| 8 | The first thing I noticed as we arrived at the famous pot was a fixed caving rope leading down into the dark abyss , and I could n't resist scrambling across to peer in . |
| 9 | As some hon. Members may know , I have some interest in that subject , and I hope that I shall be able to have an Adjournment debate in which to discuss the process by which we arrived at the present stage of the project . |
| 10 | We had received the full blast of his whimsicality the minute we arrived at the ancient wood-frame rectory , modernised in 1812 ( according to the brochure ) by the great-grandson of Sir Christopher Wren . |
| 11 | We finished just before we arrived at the main gate of the chateau . |
| 12 | We arrived at the little house in the evening and already there were a few people there . |
| 13 | The BX 4x4 Estate , yesterday a safari vehicle , became today a Grand Tourer as we made our farewell circuit through picturesque villages and bustling market towns until we arrived at the old spa resort of Buxton , said to be the highest town in England , where we had , reluctantly , to admit that it was time to head for home . |
| 14 | The BX 4×4 Estate , yesterday a safari vehicle , became today a Grand Tourer as we made our farewell circuit through picturesque villages and bustling market towns until we arrived at the old spa resort of Buxton , said to be the highest town in England , where we had reluctantly to admit that it was time to head for home . |
| 15 | We arrived at the French Riviera town of Frejus after an overnight journey on the Motorail . |
| 16 | ‘ We vested at the agricultural prices pertaining at the time — but now this is prime building land . ’ |
| 17 | We watched them disappear into the dusk as we anchored at the little island of Likangloe , where we had witnessed our first python hunt . |
| 18 | This year we 've restricted it to primary , partly because we felt that 's where the enthusiasm was , and partly , if people wo n't mind me saying so , to keep out the computer science specialists — we felt that , you know , we did n't want a club for boffins or for the experts , we wanted a club and we felt that if we started at the primary end , where there was n't a lot of expertise , we would probably be of more use . |
| 19 | We started at the old junction with the Cambrian Line , Cemmaes Road , and immediately found a problem . |
| 20 | We stared at the fallen magazine . |
| 21 | There was a gasp , as we stared at the cream-coloured glutinous substance floating in a thin gruel . |
| 22 | When Hellen and I first came to live near London , the first concert we attended at the Royal Festival Hall was a performance of Beethoven 's Piano Concerto No 4 , with Robert Casadesus at the piano and Andre Previn conducting the London Symphony Orchestra . |
| 23 | We sang at the weekly service held at six o'clock each Thursday for the old gentlemen who were inmates of the hospital . |
| 24 | When we looked at the additional explanatory power brought to these models by information about the worker 's family responsibilities we found that parenthood had little effect on men 's labour force participation or pay . |
| 25 | At the outset we looked at the traditional ways in which new developments have been incorporated into the domain of the public services . |
| 26 | We looked at the industrial distribution of " users " , at whether there had been any increase in their numbers since 1980 and at differences between user and non-user establishments in terms of their size , output , performance , industrial relations and labour force characteristics . |
| 27 | We looked at the following aspects : |
| 28 | In Chapter 3 we looked at the general interrelation of stylistic effects over a passage of some extent ; in Chapter 2 we considered the " macro-effects " of style as manifested in whole texts . |
| 29 | Okay so last week we looked at the participatory model of democracy which in essence of Russo 's Theory in three ways . |
| 30 | We looked at the total incidence of gonorrhoea ; the number of cases of gonorrhoea found in men overall and in homosexual men ; the male to female ratio of cases of gonorrhoea ; and the number of new cases of HIV infection diagnosed in homosexual men ( table ) . |