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Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	And I believe we met once at a Stock Exchange luncheon . "
2	In true pilgrim tradition we prayed and did penance together and we also took our recreation together and we also took our recreation together and so on Wednesday evening we met together for a very happy celebration .
3	A considerable swell was breaking on the beach , so cameras were stowed in plastic bags and we surfed ashore in an inflatable in what is known as a ‘ wet landing ’ .
4	Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time
5	We lived together for a while . ’
6	At seven-thirty , in struggling daylight , we stopped briefly in a place identified in suitably small letters on the small station as Schreiber .
7	We stopped close to a small graveyard where a tribe of wild goats stared suspiciously at us from between the mounds of earth and bleak wooden crosses .
8	Here we berthed ahead of a small German coaster which was discharging timber from Finland on a regular run .
9	Unfortunately , we sailed straight into a terrible storm , which drove us many miles eastward .
10	‘ We came here for a purpose .
11	There were things sticking out all over the place on the Albini recordings but we came away with a sound we liked , ’ says the bass player .
12	And we came away with a true understanding of the value of the estuarine habitat .
13	At least it stood us in good stead for Tuesday night 's game at Scrimley Arsenal , where we came away with a very creditable 2–4 defeat .
14	We came away with an assurance that the Government would n't force the company off the Grange Road site . ’
15	Because when we came home , we came home on a Friday night , I say , and oh , the traffic !
16	When we came home for a mid-day dinner , the washing lines in the back garden would be hung with sheets , towels , our clothes , hankies and so on .
17	We came together as a group almost by accident , but there was a convergence of our experiences and a symmetry to our ideas which made the first few months of our existence one of the most stimulating and electrifying of my life .
18	So , similarly , in the First World War , we assumed proudly as an accolade of honour the Kaiser 's ridicule of the first British Expeditionary Force as that ‘ contemptible little army ’ .
19	We drove straight to a panelled restaurant in the dining district between Fifth and Sixth for an exploratory meeting with Christopher Meadowbrook .
20	‘ No , what I mean is we were still children when we arrived here in a sense . ’
21	‘ We arrived here in a boat ! ’ muttered Michael .
22	We arrived there on a wild morning in May , having the previous evening taken the ferry from Fishguard in Wales to Rosslare , Co Wexford , about 50 miles away .
23	After a time we turned inland on a rough track which climbed through ravines into the desert hills .
24	Immediately after a semi-derelict farmhouse we turned left through a gate and headed straight up a stony track to Rudland Rigg .
25	As we walked away to a coffee-shop in the Royal Mile , Meehan said , ‘ That 's the first court in my life I 've been turned away from . ’
26	We walked from Little Thomham to Steams of Shimpling ; and we walked there for a week .
27	I was n't quite so happy after that ; however , we landed safely on a tea estate in Assam , and then were packed into lorries and driven a few miles into Dibrugarh .
28	I wanted the pupils to understand the idea of a square metre and so we began practically as a class with blank metre sticks on the floor to represent the fences .
29	The engines reversed and cut out altogether , and we knocked gently against a mooring .
30	We stepped carefully around a patch of particularly scratchy heather — just as a small reptile emerged from beneath : a lizard , about eight inches long , patterned with blotches and white-centred rings which ran down its grass-green horny back and tail .