Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We both had large appetites and although we tried to get on the same table at mealtimes so that we could monopolise the food , we were permanently hungry . |
| 2 | We 'd started at the same time . |
| 3 | Then I realized that we kept returning to the same place and stopping for a few minutes , before moving off again around a similar route . |
| 4 | As there is no soil at all on this rocky islet vegetation is almost non-existent , but we did come across a few tenacious rock plants growing from the guano in rock crevices . |
| 5 | The Chinese do n't like their planes to fly unless the weather is absolutely O.K. So we had to wait for a few hours for the plane to arrive from Shanghai . |
| 6 | It was because the parties had all analysed the nature of the problem we had to decide in the same way that it was agreed at the outset of the hearing before us that the central question we had to answer was this : in what capacity are High Court judges sitting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary cases ? |
| 7 | Here the footpath ended so we had to walk for a few hundred yards along a stretch of country road . |
| 8 | We sat chatting for a few minutes after finishing our meal . |