Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were jolted from the Delta to the coast , where we disappeared into a giant galvanised iron shed . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , he has not honoured the spirit of the words that he used in Committee , where we engaged in a long debate about the value of the assets and the effect on the workers . |
| 3 | We were glad to reach Rangoon which at that time of the year , early March , was very hot , and so Pop sent us up to Taungin-in the Shan States where we stayed with a delightful elderly American missionary , Miss Hughes . |
| 4 | I see from my files that we agreed to a slight change to the Agreement for the above tape , and a revised page 2 of the document was sent to you on 20 April . |
| 5 | Let me read you two or three other verses from that same book of Hebrews that we read from a few moments ago . |
| 6 | It 's not like the prayers that we heard about a few weeks ago , from Paul 's letters to Timothy and Philemon , where he was addressing an individual . |
| 7 | That was the doctoring that we had for a broken collar bone you see ? |
| 8 | that we had in a six month period . |
| 9 | There followed protracted negotiations ; and it was not until weeks later that we settled on a permanent arrangement that satisfied everyone . |
| 10 | But I 'm anticipating a shortfall of somewhere between £600,000 to £800,000 , which equates to the £1m that we wanted as a long-term 15-year loan . |
| 11 | Their house was too small to put us up so we stayed in a new motor camp a few miles further along the road , in Portobello ( odd to get all these Edinburgh names , 12,000 miles away ! ) . |
| 12 | It began to get quite hot so we sat on a mossy bank and shared an orange . |
| 13 | We went off and we got to a steep hill , we all had to get out |
| 14 | A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to meet in a public house where I bought you half a dozen pints and we engaged in a long and fascinating conversation . |
| 15 | The monster that said ‘ Hee-haw ! ’ carried me on its back and we went to a little river . |
| 16 | It was dark when we arrived , and we left in a closed carriage . ’ |
| 17 | And , if the positions were reversed and we lived in a black-dominated society … |
| 18 | On the telephone , I was greeted with a very friendly and hearty ‘ Well … well … well ! ’ and we chatted for a few minutes as if there had been no break in our contact . |
| 19 | She laughed , and we talked for a few minutes longer . |
| 20 | Kāli chose the steeper , shorter route to the forest and we climbed at a leisurely pace , stopping occasionally to catch our breath , lurching drunkenly and bumping into each other when the gradient increased and we were too lazy to keep up our momentum . |
| 21 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 22 | We returned to the car and drove on until we came to a small wooden bridge spanning a rivulet of water coming from a waterfall not far up the hillside behind . |
| 23 | We were examining the homework , sorting through the usual kind of difficulty but there was nothing to amiss , until we came to a light green garment . |
| 24 | Once it was dark our spirits were again surprisingly high ; we all felt as if we belonged to a large family . |
| 25 | When I was in Stanley last year , even though I was only in my second year , I knew as well as all the other Stanley staff that if we had in a dodgy case the S.S.O. would fix things so that someone else operated on him . |
| 26 | ‘ If we lived on a good one , how would things be different ? ’ |
| 27 | If we lived on a very , very heavy planet … ’ |
| 28 | Let me put it another way , if we lived in a magic world , and were n't having things like essays and package deals together , and any officer was being asked to forecast the money that would be needed for the sensible and , and virile implementation of five B , would you arrive at a figure of about thirty thousand pounds or not ? |
| 29 | So for example , if I went on er a job on Monday I could possibly draw gun number three but the following day if we went on a similar operation I might get gun number six . |
| 30 | If we started with a clean sheet of paper we would not plan it that way . |