Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , thanks to the kindness of a lady in the petrol depot who agreed to phone our host when a delivery was about to be made and where , we eventually refuelled at about 9.00 am on Thursday we set out on the last leg of our journey . |
| 2 | How we survived remains a mystery , but when we eventually arrived at Backakeldy , we were told that the coastguard had been alerted and that our mad passage across the barriers had been watched in amazement by worried would-be rescuers . |
| 3 | We only looked at it yesterday ? , |
| 4 | .. When , at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon we rounded the last promontory which separated us from what was once the magnificent panorama of St Pierre , we suddenly perceived at the opposite extremity of the roadstead the Riviere Blanche with its crest of vapour , rushing madly into the sea . |
| 5 | But when we got to the studio , the first thing we saw were all these picture frames suspended from the ceiling — we just looked at each other and burst out laughing . |
| 6 | We just looked at each other . |
| 7 | But it 's still right on that , on that turning point , it 's a hundred and fifty years after the John Trevisa theme that we just looked at . |
| 8 | Erm David we 've just obviously completed a , a plan of your future , we just looked at areas which we |
| 9 | Perhaps you did n't buy one , perhaps we just looked at it . |
| 10 | We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week . |
| 11 | We finally debated at great length whether it would be possible to avoid making explicit reference to the Director . |
| 12 | It was all go from 8.00am until we finally finished at 5.00pm . |
| 13 | We finally arrived at a figure of two hundred and fifty pounds and he was perfectly agreeable . ’ |
| 14 | We finally arrived at Caboolture Airport near Brisbane thirteen months after leaving London , greeted by Australian friends and the press . |
| 15 | We finally arrived at an event of which the adult Sylvia had no recollection whatsoever , but which to the baby must have been dramatically traumatic . |
| 16 | We finally arrived at the house . |
| 17 | We hardly attacked at all . |
| 18 | Crossing to the Grand Gendarme , we hardly paused at the rock step that had given us such a problem earlier . |
| 19 | There was no kitchen but then we always ate at the market . |
| 20 | I went round to their place again and we had toast and tea with real cow 's milk , not the Handy Brand condensed milk we always had at home . |
| 21 | Then , very soon , the hunting stage when we deliberately played at savages . |
| 22 | We also looked at some perceptions which had attitudinal overtones . |
| 23 | Then to find all the OTHER under-5 activities we called at all the Sports Centres and Community centres in the area , and finally we also looked at ANY noticeboard ANY where ! |
| 24 | We also looked at the diversity of living arrangements which operate between couples today , even before account is taken of our ethnically diverse , multi-cultural society . |
| 25 | We also looked at how past experiences affected current relationships . |
| 26 | In Chapter 3 we looked at the ‘ politics of variation ’ in a general sense : we asked why feminists would want to study male/female differences in language , and we also looked at the anecdotal tradition of ( often sexist ) comment feminists in the field have inherited — in some cases rather uncritically . |
| 27 | In 2 we examined the role of cohesive devices in creating coherence , but we also looked at their limitations . |
| 28 | We also looked at their transport , destination and time they returned home , which revealed some slight differences . |
| 29 | and we also looked at acid and carbonate . |
| 30 | Er , we also announced at the same time as the Alton , er , Towers acquisition that Longman had acquired Rank Training for eleven and a half million pounds . |