Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 's not where we saw the red squirrel . |
| 2 | We began at Bakewell , the central town of the Peaks , where we visited the 14th Century church to see its celebrated collection of mediaeval monuments , did some souvenir shopping and could n't resist a genuine Bakewell Pudding before going to nearby Chatsworth , the ‘ Palace of the Peak ’ . |
| 3 | We began at Bakewell , the central town of the Peaks , where we visited the 14th Century church to see its celebrated collection of mediaeval monuments , did some souvenir shopping and could n't resist a genuine Bakewell Pudding before going on to nearby Chatsworth , the ‘ Palace of the Peak ’ . |
| 4 | We disposed of surplus property and focused our investment expenditure on quayside facilities where we bought the former Texaco fuel terminal in Aberdeen , which is being substantially upgraded , and spent £1.2 million on building 27,000 square feet of offices and warehousing at the Wood Marine Base in Aberdeen . |
| 5 | Notice in particular that we set out the Keynesian theory more generally than we did the classical theory where we assumed no government and no foreign trade . |
| 6 | We knew that the districts under study were fairly advanced in the adoption of the care programme approach , and we wanted to find out how representative they might be of other authorities , so we studied the mental health chapters of community care plans to supplement our information . |
| 7 | Usually the two pilots who are on night duty sleep in the ambulance but the driver and medical orderly who also sleep in it had worked up a terrific ‘ fug ’ — ‘ Imshi ’ Mason and I felt we could not cope with the smell of unwashed feet , etc. , so we dragged the two stretchers out . ’ |
| 8 | It was ridiculous so we restored the passing loop at Aberffrwd that has helped considerably . |
| 9 | David would n't do it , so we lost the front cover . |
| 10 | Once we reached the far side of the bridge we went via a very old iron kissing gate into the field which early in summer was always a mass of buttercups . |
| 11 | In desperation , once we hit the less-trafficked back roads south-east of Manor House , I cover the last leg on the well-polished bodywork of someone 's brand new Volvo . |
| 12 | I suspect that if we were to take a sensate tension structure such as the love-hate paradox that lies at the heart of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet theme , we would be able to transpose it into different forms each appropriate to a particular culture , and , provided we had the necessary skill of course , we would be able to do this for all cultures in the world . |
| 13 | until we got the first order . |
| 14 | From here we worked our way carefully across the rock base until we reached the treacherous scree slope known as Little Hell Gate . |
| 15 | All went smoothly until we reached the British customs . |
| 16 | I did n't really wake up until we made the short boat trip to Ellis Island . |
| 17 | He worked for the council and was responsible for the sewage outfall until we had the new drainage scheme . ’ |
| 18 | The engineer would have headphones on while Keith was blasting away ; he 'd move the mic around until we found the right place , then he 'd bolt it in the stand where the speaker 's sweet spot was , and there it would stay . |
| 19 | Neal insisted that the bunker was a " command and control facility " and asserted : " We do n't feel like we attacked the wrong bunker or made a mistake . |
| 20 | If we passed the regular tests , we were then allowed to draw the whole figure from casts and heads fro life . |
| 21 | Moreover , if we adopted the first solution and applied it throughout , e would become ( the first three elements have been assumed zero ) unc which is clearly quite unacceptable for the later measurements . |
| 22 | If we adopted the two-phoneme analysis , the words ‘ church ’ and ‘ judge ’ would be composed of five phonemes each , like this : instead of the three phonemes , resulting from the one-phoneme analysis : and there would be no separate and phonemes . |
| 23 | And at the end of the first week he asked me how I would feel if we sold the domestic appliances businesses ( the most profitable part of the group at the time ) , and I said I did n't know how he had got to that so fast , but that it was fine with me . |
| 24 | Now if we sold the whole lot we 're gon na struggle a bit . |
| 25 | We could , then , presumably , if we had the relevant instrumentation , specify the place of the utterance in terms of a fine interaction of latitude and longitude . |
| 26 | If we had the given conception of " now-they-work-and-now-they-don't " circumstances , we presumably would also have an idea along these lines that might be reported . |
| 27 | Almost certainly if we had the full text of Edward 's coronation oath , we should find that , like his predecessors back to the early twelfth century and his successors to the end of the Middle Ages , he promised to protect the liberties of the church , which , after all , was also the substance of the first clause of Magna Carta . |
| 28 | So , if we had the same range of materials on video as we do on audio , would we continue to use audio in language teaching ? |
| 29 | ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’ |
| 30 | It might be the monarch if we bred the right kind of king … |