Example sentences of "[pron] we [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ That 's the story when something goes wrong : ‘ Not our normal standard , just somebody we picked off the street , do n't judge us by her blah blah . ’ |
2 | After an hour in which we ambled along the ridge , balanced along its crest , climbed the pinnacles , sat on ledges and talked and shared coffee and chocolate , the cloud closed round us again . |
3 | Those lucky teachers who came under Basil 's guidance were helped to be more creative themselves and to bring out creativity in their children with the amazing results which we saw in the West Riding schools . |
4 | After calling for some ice-cubes which we popped into the straight Pernod , we drank them down , with predictably weird results ( we had already had Dexedrine ) . |
5 | This unruffled progression fits perfectly the sort of chain of correlations of consequences which we disentangled at the start of this chapter but it does not seem to offer the prospect of the decisive determination of a particular result . |
6 | But there is the same substantial caveat which we registered in the case of the Nuer : the particular kind of mystical powers which sustain the social order can not be predicted from the social order . |
7 | The Division 's North American operations have benefited from excellent results in Electronic Materials , including The Alta Group which we acquired during the year . |
8 | At the Nov. 4 meeting he had warned : " We have somehow frivolously disposed of the capital which we acquired after the coup . " |
9 | Despite all this , the hopeful prophecy which we quoted at the beginning of this book has not been fulfilled . |
10 | That 's been er er a matter which has been erm discussed er at some length by Stragg as has the topic of er house building and the the problems of er capacity for er new house instruction and other development within the , the Council but a number of erm matters er not least of which has been er the departure of two key members of staff during the period er there has er I 'm afraid been a degree of slippage and the original programme that we have put to you and which you agreed which we said at the time was ambitious er is already er showing signs of stress and it looks now I 'm afraid that it will not be er in the early part of the summer that the structure plan in draft form will be available and ready to be approved for consultation purposes , but towards the end of the summer and er er into the early autumn . |
11 | Talking of Lester Piggott he of course was the winner of the first ever Channel Four personality of the year trophy which we awarded for the first time last year . |
12 | Erm well we had a a big raffle erm we wrote away to all the local shops and restaurants ask them to donate prizes and we raised a lot of money through that and also my mum erm cooked Indian snacks which we sold during the interval erm which everyone loved and so it worked quite well . |
13 | But there is one scene where I fall over a sofa , which we added on the day of the shoot . ’ |
14 | A short walk along the coastline past the few prettily painted small hotels brought us to the gorgeous bay lined with palm trees which we shared with the numerous shy crabs which intermittently popped out of the holes in the white sand . |
15 | All these came together and seemed to us a clear call , which we shared with the church . |
16 | This initiative , in the event , paid off handsomely , both in terms of profit and in terms of giving us an illusion of independence when one of our consortia , which we shared with the Burmah Oil company , discovered oil in what is now the Ninian field . |
17 | I think I should start by stressing the process through which we have gone in order to prepare this report has been somewhat different this year from that which we followed in the past and |
18 | Even Vienna , which we reached at the end of the journey , seemed disappointing by comparison . |
19 | The temple at Edfu , which we reached on the morning of the third day , was dedicated to Horus , for this was the spot where he was said to have vanquished Seth , and thus to have established the ascendancy of good over evil , This is never a , convincing concept , and the reliefs display the struggle and its happy outcome with an adamancy that seems to betray doubt . |
20 | In other words , sticking to those sectors that we know and understand and which we chose for the nineties because we believe they had good growth prospects . |
21 | The boy ransacked his father 's stores for old guns , shields and spears which we hung in the entrance hall . |
22 | Er hundred and forty pound for the coach to Yorkshire which we got on the other side , a hundred and six pound back so the club er sponsored that , a hundred and thirty four pound , and thirty four pound . |
23 | And others , there 's money here which we got for the admin course which which can spend . |
24 | In his novel The Human Age , D. B. Wyndham Lewis postulates the theory that after death , as we stand on that other shore , at the gate of eternity , we will each one assume the shape and form which we had at the time when we best realised our essential selves . |
25 | Before each meal we ran halfway up a mountain and fetched rocks which we piled in the field in front of the farmhouse , to leave some sign of our presence there . |
26 | We stopped at a shop and bought apples and beer , which we guzzled on the march , assault rifles and ammunition belts swinging round our necks as we used our hands to prise the tops off the beer bottles . |
27 | The exhaust system was a mangle of welded and leaking pipes which stuck out almost at ground level , which we replaced with the super Jake Wright Conversion . |
28 | The trading conditions which we experienced during the year with no recovery in prospect required a radical look at the costs and overheads structure of the UK activities . |
29 | The high level of activity at Enron gas fired power station contract — which we serviced from the Middlesbrough Depot — and the increasing tempo of work in the Gulf where we deployed a significant amount of our special plant , tower cranes and hoists to Dubai , and heavy crawler cranes to the Mina Qaboos harbour job in Muscat . |
30 | Isaiah 's vision , which we heard in the first lesson , is of future deliverance . |