Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We then drove inland , through the Buller Gorge and Murchison and up to St. Arnaud , a village at the head of Lake Rotoiti in the Nelson Lakes National Park , where we stayed at the backpackers ' , the only accommodation available .
2 Where we stopped at the junction . ’
3 After the visit Avice said that " finding a solution will take longer than we thought at the end of last year " .
4 We have even 1,500,000 fewer children than we had at the time of the Boer War … .
5 For many of us , Betty Jackson 's clothes are simply too expensive so we jumped at the chance to feature the latest Betty Jackson Vogue patterns .
6 Once we arrived at the house she asked us whether we would go and pick up someone else from the doctor 's surgery who she worked with .
7 Cos we lived at the top of the second hill , opposite erm Doctor s er house , the famous eye surgeon .
8 The restaurant was still standing but I suspected some unpleasantness had taken place as neither of them said a word until we arrived at the hospital again .
9 Since the Opposition , clearly , try to make the worst of the current figures , would it not give a truer picture if we looked at the figures of only five years back ?
10 This would have been impossible unless we camped at the foot of Beinn Eibhinn , or had started from Loch Ossian at dawn , or were two gold medalist fell-runners .
11 The tax burden under this Government rose during our first two and a half years because we inherited at the top of the business cycle a borrowing requirement of 5.5 per cent .
12 Then they were whisked off to the museum , while we stayed at the hotel waiting for news of our flight to Nanking .
13 Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time .
14 In the four years since we looked at the Subaru estate , it 's gone upmarket with a bang .
15 Before we looked at the Fort , we sat in a chai shop , sipping hot tea and reading out loud from Inayat Khan 's chronicle .
16 Just before we arrived at the station , the lights came on .
17 Our one day visit soon stretched to two , and when we left at the end of three superb days ' climbing there were still routes we wanted to do .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 His words when we met at the start of the Championship kept coming back : ‘ Willie , I 'm going to win the Open for you this week .
21 But when we looked at the location , our feeling was that it was close to the City and there were professional couples living nearby .
22 When we looked at the Telegraph and the Times things seem so samey , there 's just this uniform effect everything seeming to look the same whereas here they 've really used such a variety of styles the curly , the straight , the blocked plus your black blocks across the bottom .
23 But when we looked at the SVQ in more detail , we found that the underpinning skills and knowledge required would need some extra attention .
24 When we looked at the figures we proved that we would n't get any more business because of where people lived and when we tried to push them to Detroit over Amsterdam they would n't have it , people would prefer to drive to Gatwick .
25 When we looked at the place for the first time .
26 When we looked at the lighter and darker areas separately we found considerable differences .
27 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 .
28 When we arrived at the station an enormous suitcase was taken out of the car .
29 When we arrived at the hotel I found that he 'd booked us both into the same double room .
30 When we arrived at the Seraglio , it was Lexy Everard who showed you in . ’
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