Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 's not where we saw the red squirrel . |
| 2 | We began at Bakewell , the central town of the Peaks , where we visited the 14th Century church to see its celebrated collection of mediaeval monuments , did some souvenir shopping and could n't resist a genuine Bakewell Pudding before going to nearby Chatsworth , the ‘ Palace of the Peak ’ . |
| 3 | We began at Bakewell , the central town of the Peaks , where we visited the 14th Century church to see its celebrated collection of mediaeval monuments , did some souvenir shopping and could n't resist a genuine Bakewell Pudding before going on to nearby Chatsworth , the ‘ Palace of the Peak ’ . |
| 4 | We disposed of surplus property and focused our investment expenditure on quayside facilities where we bought the former Texaco fuel terminal in Aberdeen , which is being substantially upgraded , and spent £1.2 million on building 27,000 square feet of offices and warehousing at the Wood Marine Base in Aberdeen . |
| 5 | The method is similar to that used in chapter 6 , where we predicted the regional median unemployment rate for each local area within that region ; the difference is that the prediction from a linear equation will only be the same for two cases if they have identical mortality rates . |
| 6 | We struck out for Cambridge and although we made the odd wrong turn they were quickly rectified and with luck on our side we found the hotel . |
| 7 | And since , through election by the princes , the kingdom and the empire are ours from God alone , Who at the time of the passion of His Son Christ subjected the world to dominion by the two swords ( Luke 22:38 ) and since the apostle Peter taught this doctrine ‘ fear God , honour the King ’ ( Peter 2:17 ) whosoever says that we received the imperial crown as a benefice from the lord pope contradicts the divine ordinance and the doctrine of Peter and is guilty of a lie … |
| 8 | It was vital that we understood the political infighting between the ‘ moderates ’ and the ‘ radicals ’ there as it seemed more relevant to John and the other British hostages . |
| 9 | Whilst we also believe increasing amounts of renewable energy must be harnessed in future , our long-standing service to landscape protection meant that we saw the environmental costs of doing this perhaps more clearly than others . |
| 10 | This pleased him , that we knew the proper response . |
| 11 | It was on one of Mike 's rest days , when I went along with Christophe to do some sound recordings , that we got the first view of what was to become an obsession for Mike and me over the next two and a half years . |
| 12 | It is not true that certain other events or conditions might have occurred such that we got the solar conditions but not last night . |
| 13 | The joke was that it was sometime later that we learnt the whole affair had been staged by Basil who had been in earlier to go through his in-tray and deal with the important memos , etc . |
| 14 | IT WAS with great shock that we heard the sad news that had died in hospital on Friday , May 21 , only a few weeks before he was due to retire . |
| 15 | The quality of our people have to be second to none and so our only asset would again be sensible to ensure that the best people , that we recruited the best people and we retained the best people and we wanted to be profitable , wanted to be lean and mean , hungry and er any profitable organisation is going to be a better organisation as a result of improved profitability and we then finally wanted to improve the quality of our image out there in the market place , we were seen and at least that was I think the Department , certainly my perception we were seen er as being a sort of gentle giant out there . |
| 16 | If the right hon. Gentleman begins to listen to what many employers elsewhere in Europe are saying , he will learn that they recognise that we made the right decisions . |
| 17 | It was then that we made the surprising discovery that the Sultan , " the Great Mountain " , is officially married to Loro Kidul . |
| 18 | Assume that we estimated the unrestricted version of equation ( 6.20 ) ; that is , where the 's are coefficients and are equation errors . |
| 19 | I 'm afraid the fact is that we had the finest guitarist in the world and we did n't recognise it . |
| 20 | I was not , however , prepared to give an undertaking to bring National Service to an end until I was certain that we had the necessary voluntary enlistment . |
| 21 | We had to look at what we can afford to do in the future , and make sure that we had the right number of quality staff in the right places to carry out our programme . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ It was at a meeting on January 17 — two days after we answered the status inquiry — that we had the first indication that the shop had decided to consult an insolvency expert . ’ |
| 23 | Last week we had the Co-op Congress , and the week before that we had the Basque flag flying from socialist Spain because of our new links with Bilbao the ferry service there . |
| 24 | IT WAS 25 YEARS AGO I think , wrote Leopold Mozart to his wife on their wedding anniversary in 1772 , ‘ that we had the bright idea of getting married . ’ |
| 25 | It was also during this period that we had the strangest set of photographs taken of us , by Peter Christopherson who worked for a design company , Hipgnosis — whose offices were at the back of our Denmark Street HQ — and who later joined Throbbing Gristle , a band best known for tabloid spreads on their occult practices . |
| 26 | But it finally ended up that we had the whole thing Rousay Egilsay and Wyre . |
| 27 | Erm , it 's certainly true that we reduced the total size of a particular team or unit dealing with international affairs , but only on the grounds that we actually felt that it was very important that all the teams should be working on international and European dimensions of their work , rather than seeing it as compartmentalised in one area . |
| 28 | After living rough for some time she decided that we offered the best chance of a home , and moved in Fizzy 's attitude is ambivalent . |
| 29 | It is amazing that the hon. Gentleman , who professes knowledge of social security matters , has not alluded to the fact that we restructured the national insurance scheme . |
| 30 | It was in Mexico , during those flowering years , that we climbed the snow-capped volcanoes , dived in the Mayan wells , collected creatures and orchids and , abetted by the enlightened curiosity of our parents , delved deep into ways of being and mind unimaginably different from our own . |