Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , that where we went to that pub that time with Geoff , that 's the first time I 've been up there . |
| 2 | We also spent time in the capital , Guatemala City , where we talked to senior government officials like the defence minister , General Jose Garcia Samayoa . |
| 3 | I 'm convinced he drew me aside , away from Jeeta and Jamila , into the store-room , where we sat on wooden boxes like skiving factory workers , because he was ashamed , or at least bashful , about his unsweet victory . |
| 4 | The Fish got us a good position at the back of the club , where we stood on wooden beer crates holding on to each other as the floor seemed about to crack open with heat and stomping . |
| 5 | We were not far below the hanging glacier bivouac , where we stopped for two hours before pushing on to make the most of the night . |
| 6 | While the provisional agreement reached in the July 1992 ECOFIN was better than we feared at one juncture , it still marks a worsening in our relative position . |
| 7 | Surely no civil servant had more unique or peaceful surroundings in which to work than we did on this day . |
| 8 | Although we have a clearer picture than we did of long-term changes in demography and household structure , little has been done to fill out the picture in terms of living experience . |
| 9 | We 'll not be building any more than we intended for this year — well , a house or two more , maybe , but nothing beyond . |
| 10 | ‘ But I came down to the theatre and was assured it was suitable for children so we came with open minds , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Around the fermenters where wet aerosols of live material could escape ‘ we started from square one , and designed a system to avoid contamination of workers so we went with sealed units . ’ |
| 12 | We were all starvin' , Chief , so we went to this canteen . |
| 13 | Sharon had gone to hospital an hour before me , so we travelled in separate ambulances . |
| 14 | It looked like a Hollywood film stunt — until we realized with chilling certainty that none of us anywhere near the petrol-pump would have survived if the truck had gone up . |
| 15 | I want to go and make daisy chains and eat rhubarb pie like we did in that magic , far-away land of childhood … |
| 16 | But we could not draw these conclusions if we relied on external norms , on general historical information as codified in historical textbooks , or on our own ‘ intuition ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ If we continued down this road here , we 'd still reach the Fire Court , ’ said Snodgrass , who was quite good at maps and found them interesting . |
| 18 | And you know they ca n't go , this one ca n't go earlier than that one because we 've got the sequence and so if we got through these steps , I think that those steps are the same steps that we go through on any project . |
| 19 | if we bargained about this issue , or ones related to it before , then the issue is negotiable now |
| 20 | I often felt as if we came from different planets ! ’ |
| 21 | Er for example all of us in this room , if we went to one destination , we 'd probably all come away with a different combination of things that we 'd actually got from it . |
| 22 | ‘ If we thought for one moment that the health of the public was at risk we 'd stop selling eggs . ’ |
| 23 | One thing that he did make very clear at the end was that if we thought of other things that he should know about , or it would be helpful for him to know about , we should contact him , so he 's left it very open for us to have an ongoing contact which I thought . |
| 24 | The idea that knowledge could be firmly established and disputes resolved if we began from clear beginnings always remained with Hobbes . |
| 25 | I often think that if we dressed in old Barbours and flat caps we would n't create so much antipathy . |
| 26 | ‘ I think it would be best if we remained on formal terms . ’ |
| 27 | Do any of the districts want to be drawn on a choice or are you still maintaining the line which you have persisted in maintaining since we embarked on this discussion on Thursday , where we have two districts well sorry , Mr and Mr not agreeing in principle with the new settlement . |
| 28 | It is some time since we looked in any detail at the program and functions of the Singer 9000 machine , so I thought we would concentrate a little on some of the functions of programming , rather than on knitting . |
| 29 | Once on board , I took a look below , where many men folk were as comfortably spread on the saloon sofas as circumstances would permit , and finding a vacant space sufficiently large to stretch my full complement of feet and inches on , I tried to fall asleep before we got into rough water ; but with the first movement of the screw , I was on my feet and on deck , having a view of the hills round Gairloch as they slept in the mist of night ere the faint streaks of dawn disturbed their repose . |
| 30 | A quarter of a million was taken off erm before we got into this budget cycle . |