Example sentences of "[pron] we [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We managed only one practice session , on a school playing field in St Thomas which we shared with a tense local football match . |
| 2 | Some of them are on display in the billiards room which we converted into a little museum , but others are stored in 2,000 indexed cardboard boxes . |
| 3 | What I intend to deal with is the record as it stands because anybody who 's going to argue a case against the decline of of any kind of system has to put the facts as they are , not as they would wish them to be , and I would argue that the legacy , before we can do that , the legacy which we inherited as a controlling group back in 1990 , is now a matter of record I would accept . |
| 4 | Then we did things like ‘ Love You Till Tuesday ’ which we did with a huge orchestra , as I recall , which was done in another studio . |
| 5 | We had both come to hate it and its invisible driver , whom we visualized as a smug glutton sleeping in a comfortable bed each night and stuffing his face with three square meals a day . |
| 6 | They proposed instead a new list of candidates which included themselves ‘ and certain other painters whom we knew to a greater or lesser extent … who seemed to us capable of representing if not a particular tendency at least a certain standard ’ . |
| 7 | Well we said , did you not visit and Morpeth and Annick well we we went round a few castles in that area to keep out the rain . |
| 8 | A real Canadian breakfast , pancakes and honey , with eggs and ham and coffee , just what we needed after a good workout . |