Example sentences of "we [vb past] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MY WIFE and I would like to express our sincere gratitude for the heart-warming friendliness shown to us by the Liverpool citizens we met at the celebrations . |
| 2 | No no put them back in there darling , they 're what we got at the pictures |
| 3 | We stopped at the farmers ' market for cheese and grapes . |
| 4 | We stopped at the Beardies , those innocent-looking , though steep-faced , cluster of pot bunkers . |
| 5 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 6 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 7 | There was no reply to the phone , but as we were going that way to spend the night at Sandspit , we called at the neighbours ’ and found that Pat was away for a few days . |
| 8 | Stringer said , low-voiced , as Morgan moved out of earshot , " We started at the Foinmen . " |
| 9 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 10 | Towards the late afternoon , exhausted by its own violence , it began to die slowly and soon the ‘ great noise for nothing ’ became a gasping puff , The doors were opened and we stared at the drifts of dust which had banked against houses and cars in much the same way that snow drifts against walls and trees . |
| 11 | Above we looked at the affairs of only a single day ; and supposed the stocks offered for sale to be already in existence . |
| 12 | I would prefer it if er we looked at the criteria and the policy itself , but take useful information from this if if need be . |
| 13 | Since the Opposition , clearly , try to make the worst of the current figures , would it not give a truer picture if we looked at the figures of only five years back ? |
| 14 | When we looked at the figures we proved that we would n't get any more business because of where people lived and when we tried to push them to Detroit over Amsterdam they would n't have it , people would prefer to drive to Gatwick . |
| 15 | In the modern world , we looked at the findings of psychologists , with all their promises of self-knowledge — or at least , self-analysis . |
| 16 | In chapter two we looked at the differences between pleasure and happiness . |
| 17 | We looked at the tapestries , then I went back to my room . |
| 18 | Now we looked at the graphs and that should dictate in general that demand will go down . |
| 19 | We looked at the gains and losses ( the pleasure and pain ) associated with the process of detachment from one job and attachment to another . |
| 20 | We looked at the contexts in which it arose and the purposes for which it happened . |
| 21 | In 2 we looked at the details of formal lexical and grammatical connections between sentences in monologue . |
| 22 | My Lord the first er issue is as a matter of English law and the English law position , my Lord in making my main submissions to your Lordship I took you to the case , we looked at the statements of er the House of Lords and er Lord in particular with whom the other Law Lords agreed , my Lord do you wish to go back to the fact again ? |
| 23 | ‘ We looked at the tournaments in the context of the whole winter and decided they were not the best preparation for a challenging series against the West Indies . ’ |
| 24 | I know that the summaries of guidance is is in that list , and from the brief discussion we had at the careers officer 's meeting this week about summaries of guidance , I know we 're starting off the process by having representatives come to a meeting on the eleventh of May . |
| 25 | We then drove inland , through the Buller Gorge and Murchison and up to St. Arnaud , a village at the head of Lake Rotoiti in the Nelson Lakes National Park , where we stayed at the backpackers ' , the only accommodation available . |