Example sentences of "[subord] we [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We eventually got away from the station and camped two hours later near a marsh , where we shot some duck for dinner , and two lily-trotters for our collection . |
| 2 | He took me to lunch at a discreetly ill-lit restaurant and then to an hotel on the Ile St Louis , where we passed two hours of the afternoon gratifying his fantasies . |
| 3 | It is a great pity that not one member of the Liberal Democratic party could be bothered to attend the European Standing Committee this morning , where we debated those matters for nearly two and a half hours . |
| 4 | Of course there are many discourses existing where we lack clear referents for indexical meanings . |
| 5 | Do n't you know that Freddie Nash is now sharing Major Hallett 's cottage , where we had that party before Christmas ? |
| 6 | Mr. Wilberforce and I agree that where we knew one instance of it thirty years ago , there are now a dozen or more . ’ |
| 7 | Although we passed 60 tanks of Serbian-dominated federal forces parked near the Bosnian border , it is the ruthless veterans of the eastern Croatian conflict who are leading the Serbian offensive in the mountainous republic . |
| 8 | Although we took little heed of his departure , Ruth and I watched Alec being interviewed on TV when he returned . |
| 9 | The House will understand that , although we prefer these matters to be resolved by competitive tendering , in this case we are effectively talking about a single supplier , so it is vital to get the contract right . |
| 10 | It apologised for his distress , adding : ‘ We have recently re-staffed the Middlesbrough office and although we take great care in choosing recruits , unfortunately occasionally people do let you down . |
| 11 | In two successive years , I have pointed out that , although we take serious action on giving access to Members of Parliament , we take little action on , and treat with scant seriousness , the question of access to this place for disabled people . |
| 12 | Although we had little notice of the tour , branches were keen to help and the Association will receive £6,628 representing 50% of the total profits . |
| 13 | ‘ Although we had regular contact with our Field Officer , some modules had never been assessed before . |
| 14 | Although we had three rooms for the sessions , conditions were very cramped and there were last minute hitches with pupils discovering their recorders would n't work or the plug points were too far from the place allocated for the interviews . |
| 15 | Although we used +3 SD above the mean of negative controls as cut off level for positivity in comparison to the +2 SD used by Saxon et al this alone can not explain the differences . |
| 16 | Quite how the storm is generated is still something that we 're investigating , although we have some idea of what causes its generation . |
| 17 | Although we consider this dictionary as a respectable edition , the definition of the Gompertz-Makeham law is not correct there . |
| 18 | Although we found some firewood in the woods behind the hut , it was bitterly cold . |
| 19 | If you complete this section of the Application Form we can pay the life assurance benefit , subject to a maximum of £5,000 , to your nominated beneficiary provided he or she is over age 18 , immediately we receive official evidence of your death . |
| 20 | Although before this year he 'd been to fewer golf tournaments than we had cold drinks on that hot September afternoon , he still has fond memories of watching Arnold Palmer win the Colonial NIT close to his hometown of Dallas in 1962 . |
| 21 | And what we do with the eyebrows , we do n't just use a pair of tweezers we actually use wax , so if you 've got quite a lot of hair underneath your brow , we never take from above the brow , just below , if you 've got quite a lot of hair , it can be painful if you 're just using tweezers , so what we do now we use a little bit of hot wax , which is pink , so we put some wax under the brow , either side , let the wax erm , cool and set , and then pull the wax off . |
| 22 | But we know that people disagree to some extent about the right principles of behaviour , so we distinguish that requirement from the different ( and weaker ) requirement that they act in important matters with integrity , that is , according to convictions that inform and shape their lives as a whole , rather than capriciously or whimsically . |
| 23 | name ; is a very respectable cook , so we make occasional trips to the supermarket and to the open market , and then eat at home in the evening , although we can also go out to a restaurant for a meal if we want , as someone has now kindly lent us a car . |
| 24 | Luckily , Felton were at full strength , so we had little chance of losing . |
| 25 | or more non-whites , so we divided all areas into those with less or more than 10 per cent . |
| 26 | But ca n't we think about re-phrasing that so we get this idea of this joint statement , some sort of dialogue on |
| 27 | Erm , what happened was the cathedral council one light in at a cost of four hundred and fifty pounds but they could n't afford the second light , so we got some money from erm the residents who contributed some money , we got some money from the school and there was a shortfall of sixty six pounds thirty one pence for the total bill , so the chairman er . |
| 28 | It is a work about oppression through naming , or rather , misnaming : as any schoolchild knows , American Indians were n't really Indians ; we just wished they were , so we imposed that name on them . |
| 29 | An old car which had been driven across in front of the shooting targets was ideal , so we attached fifteen kilos of the explosive to it in different places , fixed up the detonators , trailed fuse wire back several yards and clipped on the incendiary devices which would activate the firing process . |
| 30 | Just as we give more weight to the views of an impartial judge , one who is not a party to the dispute in question , than to a partial one , so we give more weight to an impartial moral opinion , one expressed by a person who is not directly involved in the situation being assessed , than To an interested party . |