Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb past] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | unless you have a base to work off of started to do , once we started doing the er , the walls take the scaffold down out of the way and to release some area off our stock pile we decided to back build so that by the time that we 'd done six tanks we 'd got half our area taken up by all that material excavated and just flip back to the drawing here what 's going to happen is that stockpile here . |
| 2 | ‘ We went to Druid 's Bottom and we saw Mister Johnny , gobble-gobble-gobble , and we went milking the scholly-ka , and we had roast pork for dinner … |
| 3 | joined me and we began discussing the forthcoming birth and what it would be like to have two children . |
| 4 | the whole place was gon na come to a halt if anybody fired a flash gun and furiously Fred grabbed the royal people and I grabbed the Finns and we started reorganising the present so they could take place under the enormous great windows that there are in and nobody had said at any time a flash gun will stop the machines . |
| 5 | It 's called the Tripyer Shield and it 's a local amateur thing Eccles and District and to win it it 's like winning the F A Cup and this G M B team that we started we lost about three or four matches and we started losing the players , so when you do n't lock the doors and you 'd end up with about seven players and you 'd think is it worth bothering ? |
| 6 | Benjamin fell silent and we sat watching the guttering flame of the candle . |
| 7 | I met Jamie in the lounge bar of the Cauldhame Arms for lunch and we sat playing an electronic game over a TV table . |
| 8 | Maybe it would be better if we sat facing the other way ? |
| 9 | The other thing on that sort of erm side is that this is the first survey which we 've had since we started doing the survey in nineteen eighty eight when the first numbers were compiled , it 's the first survey which we 've had where the majority of regions ' manufacturers say that their unit costs have already fallen , erm we have n't seen that before , so the majority of regions said that the costs had fallen . |
| 10 | In the old days before we started building the bridge they used to fetch up on a bend about two miles down . |
| 11 | When we finished decorating the tree , we stuck all the prezzies underneath and Annie told me what she reckoned they was . |
| 12 | That was the reason we that was when we stopped using the turtle stuff . |
| 13 | When we started building the university twenty years ago we encountered a very unusual problem . |
| 14 | I think it probably bothered me later when we started getting a bit bigger . ’ |
| 15 | We found this again when we started recording the Beethoven symphonies with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London . |
| 16 | ‘ How have you found us ? ’ the headmaster asked me — masochistically — one warm summer 's afternoon as we sat watching a cricket match . |
| 17 | Our target route — the splendid Tudor Rose , which takes a stunning line up of the best section of the cliff above Guillemot Ledge — remained unfulfilled , as we found handling a clutch of fine HVS and VS routes fully occupied our energies , leaving us totally sated . |