Example sentences of "[conj] we [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bertie led us down a sloping alleyway to a heavy door where we left our shoes . |
| 2 | We walked around and saw some of the sights until lunch time when we found a nice quiet little pub not far from the Hard Rock Cafe , where we fed our faces . |
| 3 | We had to climb what seemed a never-ending staircase to a high platform where we took our seats in a punt at the top of a slide having water rushing down it . |
| 4 | It is more like a wager , where we gamble our lives on the probability of God . |
| 5 | We kept to the paths , being specially careful where we put our feet ; ground nesting species are at their most vulnerable in spring . |
| 6 | Where we put our protractors and start from , at seventy degrees , and then they 'll say , so the bearing , the bearing of B from A is seventy degrees , and then they 'll say , what is the bearing of A from B ? |
| 7 | But as we stumbled down the other side of the hill , and into the dark , dingy pub where we ate our sandwich lunch , the exaltation of that moment passed . |
| 8 | Where we believed their ideas would not work , we have put forward our own alternatives . |
| 9 | Perhaps it is because I was married on November 5 , and all the way down to a miserable , wet Bournemouth where we spent our honeymoon , there were village bonfires set out ready . |
| 10 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
| 11 | Much interest was shown in Medau at a recent ‘ Come and Try It ’ day at Nede House , East Grinstead where we held our own alongside aerobic sessions , soroptomists demonstrations , ballet . |
| 12 | Sheldon , The following Resolutions wre unanimously agreed to:The treatment of Horses and other Animals ( serviceable to mankind ) divides itself , in the Opinion of the Committee into three Branches — similar to the treatment of Man — that is to say — internal and external diseases — We know that , in the practice of Medicine , where we have our Intelligence from patients ; both Professions are too much for one Man to undertake and much less to practice and teach . |
| 13 | In Bali , amongst the community of wise and loving farmer artists where we have our home , such a stunt would be as unbelievable as it would be unnecessary , for when it comes to the supernatural — or human trickery , for that matter — the Balinese are old hands . |
| 14 | I go shopping with a girlfriend in Sydney — where we have our own Oxford Street with designer shops — and together we cause havoc . |
| 15 | Rachel touches my arm and leads me into a corner , where we drink our coffees quietly , like strangers at a wake . |
| 16 | Our horses had more sense and refused to go further so we stabled them at a local inn where we satisfied our hunger on a dish of fish cooked over charcoal before making our way up to the castle . |
| 17 | A television ( or two , or three ) in every home , the collapse of moral certitudes , the debasement of politics — all this , suggested Mr Boswell , means that sport has become ‘ the meeting ground where we discuss our values ’ . |
| 18 | We had Fred and Ginger to lighten our load , as we settled our tattered bottoms into seats in grand , new palaces — the Astoria in Charing Cross , the Regal ( now the Odeon ) at Marble Arch — where we forgot our troubles in art-deco hotel suites , aboard cruise ships and in nightclubs , all gleaming and glittery on the silver screen . |
| 19 | Or we take our custom elsewhere . |
| 20 | In summary , if we keep the horse 's anxiety down ( as well as our own ) things will be better next time ; and if we let the horse blow its mind with anxiety , or we lose our own temper , no one will even want to try again , and definitely not the horse ! |
| 21 | Or we make our own . |
| 22 | Yes , but very restricted erm in other words if you look at the history of Kuwait for the time that we received or we got our independence , we had to start our nationalisation process as an independent country . |
| 23 | It 's a question of whether we adapt to their structure or or we have our own structure |
| 24 | Although we know his nickname at college was Pagan , it 's still unlikely that we 'll find out just what Morse 's real first name is tonight . |
| 25 | Although we conduct our interview in an air-conditioned hole at Paul Merton 's spiritual home , Channel 4 , drinking tea from unwieldy tureens , it is the ever-dependable Beeb who have thus far harnessed his slippery talents most deftly . |
| 26 | Although we changed its name to corduroy to give it a touch of class , there is no evidence that the French every called it corde du roi or that kings ever wore it . |
| 27 | I mean Stephen is a heck of a long time ago , he 's the very first martyr , and we although we celebrate his feast day still on December the twenty sixth because he is the first martyr , he 's quite a long way away . |
| 28 | To encourage recruitment is not to price out existing members , not to prevent a possible mass membership , and although we encourage our members to join , we encourage family and friends also . |
| 29 | Together , these two concepts of ‘ closure ’ and ‘ reproduction ’ demand that we integrate our understanding of economic processes that allocate people to certain positions in a hierarchy with an understanding that such positions also depend on people 's perception of class , their sense of class culture , the culturally perceived ‘ pecking order ’ — the higher reaches of which are humorously caught by Les Dawson 's commentary that heads this chapter . |
| 30 | It is a more sophisticated account than the simple trait and style theories that we began our account with . |