Example sentences of "[noun pl] we [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among all our other irresistible attractions we had advertised free fishing in the River Meloch and the millpond , and a prospective holiday-maker asked , over the telephone , what kind of fish were to be found there . |
| 2 | Two thirds of all the teenagers we interviewed agreed that sex education at school missed out too much . |
| 3 | Being right in line with the posts we had expected some sort of obstacle to look round but not a moving one ! |
| 4 | Extras All cylinder cleaners we tested have automatic flex rewind . |
| 5 | None of the organisations we contacted had large ranges to choose from but they might be able to help you out with information charts and publicity posters for a small or no charge . |
| 6 | They could have been the same young Russians we had met 4,000 miles away in Fairbanks only the day before . |
| 7 | Nor would a third person enjoy as much as we did the dreams we liked to tell each other . |
| 8 | Like if Nick was dead and I was remembering the things we 'd done this year , perhaps . |
| 9 | By contrast , the bird mentioned in ( 19 ) must be one selected from a group present to the mind of the speaker in the situation of utterance ; this adjective can not be non-restrictive : ( 19 ) the largest parrot made a good supper for the expedition that evening The extraction set in this case might be the parrots we had shot that day . |
| 10 | Calling out our imaginary names we had to find each other . |
| 11 | Indeed , an extraction set may not be based on the denotation of any noun explicitly mentioned at all ; an equally valid extraction set for ( 19 ) might be the creatures we had shot that day . |
| 12 | ‘ After three months of negotiations we had exhausted all avenues . |