Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 2 | She 's enjoying herself , we met her at John 's house I felt nervous this morning for sleeping home late although in fact I have been awake quite a lot in between , but |
| 3 | He then startled champions-elect Everton with an early goal when we met them at their Goodison Park headquarters a week later ( 1–2 ) . |
| 4 | We met them at Carberry Hill . |
| 5 | I said when you came in we made it at school |
| 6 | We made ourselves at home , ate the simple food sent across to us from the refectory and retired to bed . |
| 7 | But that , of course , does not take into account the loan we made you at the start of the year . |
| 8 | Remember the carnations , we got them at one of the shops , the florist in . |
| 9 | We priced it at a wholesaler price , a retailer price and a con the price of a consumer . |
| 10 | ‘ We found them at the home of Nigel , your predecessor . |
| 11 | We found him at least two of my officers did , in a bath full of boiling water in the shower rooms . |
| 12 | But Robin still hungered for a night on the traps : so we found ourselves at the Harold Park Hotel , the crowds milling into the street , silhouetted against the lights of the adjacent Greyhound track . |
| 13 | Whether you choose a chateau hotel or stay in stately homes where families take in guests , splendour is the word and we found it at the majestic Chateau de Noirieux in Briollay , Anjou . |
| 14 | There was a small gap in the fence that was unaffected by the pile-up and we approached it at a forty-five degree angle . |
| 15 | At British initiative , we committed ourselves at Maastricht to the further enlargement of the Community , starting with the EFTA countries . |
| 16 | ‘ We played them at their place not so long ago and we drew 1-1 in a good , entertaining game so we 're looking forward to getting them back here . ’ |
| 17 | So many of you enjoy Dr. D 's column ( we have taken an extract from his latest book this month , page 176 ) that we photographed him at home with his new wife , TV presenter and novelist , Christine Webber , page 8 . |
| 18 | ‘ That was not how we heard it at Aber . |
| 19 | After the final collection of the night , when all the toads had been recorded and marked , we released them at the margin of the lake near the spawn site . |
| 20 | He knew that after shooting the second eight foot fall we would be free-falling thirty-feet onto a sloping rock shelf covered with a six inch sheet of tonnes and tonnes of the River Tees rushing over it every second ; hopefully ( if we hit it at the correct angle ) we would follow this shoot a further twenty five feet into the plunge pool at the bottom of the fall . |
| 21 | ‘ We needed her at our meeting with the chairman this morning . |
| 22 | And it was n't arbitrary it was where we needed somebody at that time . |
| 23 | That 's how we covered it at the N E C. |
| 24 | I have never quite understood why " Chesh " as we called him at the time , was the only person I selected for training with the Force that my Master vetoed ; my Master also vetoed the selection of Leonard to command No 35 Squadron in the early days of the Pathfinder Force and I was never able to establish why . |
| 25 | ‘ We kept him at home and mollycoddled him , that 's the trouble . |
| 26 | How we stumbled on this was that when we grew some of these algae at Plymouth with our colleagues there , we found that when we grew them at one temperature then these two molecules were present in a certain ratio but when we changed the water temperature then the er ratio changed . |
| 27 | The road , such as it was , had come to an end and the last twelve miles to our destination were strictly four-wheel drive through yard-deep mud , and over streams alarmingly bridged with thick bamboo trunks simply laid next to each other , so that they separated between our wheels if we took them at anything less than a rush . |
| 28 | Bournemouth chairman Norman Hayward said : ‘ When Harry told us he was finished with football , we took it at face value . ’ |
| 29 | All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time . |
| 30 | We saw him at the Rugby World Cup Final , consoling Carling . |