Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were jolted from the Delta to the coast , where we disappeared into a giant galvanised iron shed . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , he has not honoured the spirit of the words that he used in Committee , where we engaged in a long debate about the value of the assets and the effect on the workers . |
| 3 | We were glad to reach Rangoon which at that time of the year , early March , was very hot , and so Pop sent us up to Taungin-in the Shan States where we stayed with a delightful elderly American missionary , Miss Hughes . |
| 4 | Their house was too small to put us up so we stayed in a new motor camp a few miles further along the road , in Portobello ( odd to get all these Edinburgh names , 12,000 miles away ! ) . |
| 5 | It began to get quite hot so we sat on a mossy bank and shared an orange . |
| 6 | We returned to the car and drove on until we came to a small wooden bridge spanning a rivulet of water coming from a waterfall not far up the hillside behind . |
| 7 | We were examining the homework , sorting through the usual kind of difficulty but there was nothing to amiss , until we came to a light green garment . |
| 8 | Once it was dark our spirits were again surprisingly high ; we all felt as if we belonged to a large family . |
| 9 | When I was in Stanley last year , even though I was only in my second year , I knew as well as all the other Stanley staff that if we had in a dodgy case the S.S.O. would fix things so that someone else operated on him . |
| 10 | ‘ If we lived on a good one , how would things be different ? ’ |
| 11 | If we lived on a very , very heavy planet … ’ |
| 12 | Let me put it another way , if we lived in a magic world , and were n't having things like essays and package deals together , and any officer was being asked to forecast the money that would be needed for the sensible and , and virile implementation of five B , would you arrive at a figure of about thirty thousand pounds or not ? |
| 13 | So for example , if I went on er a job on Monday I could possibly draw gun number three but the following day if we went on a similar operation I might get gun number six . |
| 14 | If we started with a clean sheet of paper we would not plan it that way . |
| 15 | ‘ Even if we celebrated in a small way we would have attracted tourists from all over the world . |
| 16 | We walked further along till we came to a quiet part . |
| 17 | When we came to a final stop we were carried up many flights of stairs , taken into an apartment and dumped on the floor . |
| 18 | The beauty and clarity of our spring day was forgotten momentarily when we lumbered through a mighty ocean of dung and mud , caused by a recent and substantial visitation from the farmer 's cows . |
| 19 | The station was offered to us for the sum of £20,000 , but when we asked for a private valuation in the hope of securing a loan to purchase the site , the valuer valued the site at only £10,000 . |
| 20 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
| 21 | My wife and I spent the first days of our married life at Abbey St Bathan 's , on Whiteadder , when we stayed with a remarkable lady , Miss Gillon , in her gardener 's cottage . |
| 22 | ‘ In Misano , when we crashed on a fast right-hander and Steve cracked a shoulder , I was thrown right over the top . |
| 23 | Our job was to write the military communiques , the leaflets explaining our political programme and what we were fighting for when we moved into a new municipality , prepare tapes for the occasions we occupied the local radio stations in San Vicente and Zacatecoluca , monitor the international and national radio stations we could reach , and produce the mural newspapers for all the sub-zones of the region . |
| 24 | Islander was snug in her berth in Hythe Marina when we called on a dull and almost windless day shortly before Christmas last year . |
| 25 | Another member of the audience asked , ‘ What would be different this time around as we went through a similar identity crisis 5 or so years ago . ’ |
| 26 | He said : ‘ There was a crackle of automatic gunfire as we went through a Croatian checkpoint . |
| 27 | But unfortunately this did not last for long as we came to a narrow , shallow strip of the river . |
| 28 | As we saw in a previous chapter , all the planes or levels of the human being interact with one another , and defects arising in one can be experienced by the others and can cause upsets in them . |
| 29 | Indeed , he had hardly referred to her except once as we passed through a small hamlet and had seen children baiting a poor , crazed woman by the crossroads . |
| 30 | At our local market I stocked up on walnuts , satsumas and last-minute presents of leather goods , then on Christmas Day the sun blazed down as we tucked into a roast chicken and raised glasses of cheap local champagne . |