Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | no where we went was the erm well where we went first was the Dunkirk , did n't like what we hear in there , so we went from the Dunkirk and tried to get in the erm Smithfield hotel , we were unable to do that |
| 2 | I was n't supposed to be a novelty that people come to look at , like we became in the Beatles . |
| 3 | In the four years since we looked at the Subaru estate , it 's gone upmarket with a bang . |
| 4 | It was only a few minutes before we decided on the Bell . |
| 5 | Since just after we came to the Manor . |
| 6 | Our walks have been outstandingly enjoyable , and yesterday we walked on the estate which you and Bob pained when we went to the Crinan Canal . |
| 7 | But then , one September , I was with my father in Paris when we came upon the rue St Denis where the prostitutes hang out . |
| 8 | When we met at the Bacon show and I smiled at him he smiled back at once , then remembered and tried to scowl , but could n't and we both burst out laughing . |
| 9 | As the somewhat recalcitrant and irascible member of the famous ‘ What 's My Line ’ panel broadcast on BBC television for years , Gilbert could be and was difficult , but when we met at the Coq d'Or Restaurant on Stratton Street , just off Piccadilly , he was the soul of charm . |
| 10 | But when we looked at the SVQ in more detail , we found that the underpinning skills and knowledge required would need some extra attention . |
| 11 | When we woke on the Friday it was very hot . |
| 12 | Twice I asked Ward about this , the first time just after we had come out of the cloud on the eastern slope of the pass and had caught our first glimpse of Cajamarca far away in the valley below , and then again when we stopped at the Baños del Inca to ask our way , the hot springs steaming beside the public baths . |
| 13 | When we arrived at the Seraglio , it was Lexy Everard who showed you in . ’ |
| 14 | No one answered when we called at the Manor House , which is at the end of a long secluded drive overlooking the estate . |
| 15 | There was fog as we came through the Pentland Firth on our way back to Hull . |
| 16 | As we saw with the Paddy Ashdown scandal raised during our last election , politicians everywhere seem to rely on mud-slinging instead of argument . |
| 17 | Even if it measures the use of redundancy up to ten words either side of the deletion , this is still not the same as measuring comprehension : as we saw in the Bailey and Harrison study , redundancy and comprehensibility can be very different aspects of a text . |
| 18 | Here there are often too many people ( not too\few ) but safety does not lie in numbers , as we saw in the Champs-Elysées story . |
| 19 | There 's a common interest of course of avoiding war for most people anyway , but there 's also a common interest we know related to environmental issues and that can not be dealt with by each country , each country may have unique environmental problems but environmental problems straddle erm boundaries of countries as we saw from the Chernobyl problem of some years ago . |
| 20 | Somewhat incongruously , an accordion started playing ‘ The Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen ’ as we passed under the Erskine Bridge , thin and elegant as the still herons by the side of the now slowly widening river . |
| 21 | As we passed over the Thames we paused to look at a steamer unloading great slabs of white and brown marble . |
| 22 | Here is another example of BR communication photographed on Middlesbrough station as we waited for the Hartlepool train . |
| 23 | ‘ Monday 's not a good day , ’ I said , as we piled into the Citröen . |
| 24 | The world is still dangerous and unstable , as we found in the Falklands and the Gulf . |
| 25 | As we explained in the AEA Times bulletin we have not yet resolved all the issues and to some extent we must be flexible in taking account of the way Government thinking develops . |
| 26 | The deal clearly does not work both ways as we learned from the Squidgy tape ( a copy of which was handed to me in that very restaurant some weeks before its contents were published ) . |
| 27 | The explicit theoretical approach which we adopted in 5 should certainly not be necessary ( unless our students are students of linguistics ! ) , but we will need forgive examples of alternative ways of ordering information in an English clause ( as we did with the John ate fish and chips sentence in 5.4 ) and then rely on the students ' ability to acquire a sense of which is contextually most suitable . |
| 28 | Yet , as we turned off the Buxton Road into Ashford-in-the-Water , we found ourselves back on schedule and completely relaxed . |
| 29 | Yet , as we turned off the Buxton Road and into Ashford-in-the-Water , we found ourselves back on schedule and completely relaxed . |
| 30 | A light breeze from the north cleared the air and the sun blazed out over distant mountains as we headed between the Crowlin Isles and shaped up towards the Kyle of Localsh . |