Example sentences of "[noun pl] we [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two thirds of all the teenagers we interviewed agreed that sex education at school missed out too much . |
| 2 | After six months we had made such a success of our little business that we took on a fourth girl and moved into the garage , as we now needed more space . |
| 3 | And so me brother and I , who was a twin , were put into the choir as probationers , like today 's police force , and after twelve months we 'd passed all the necessary tests for the vicar and became chororists with the choir and graduated through it . |
| 4 | Being right in line with the posts we had expected some sort of obstacle to look round but not a moving one ! |
| 5 | Regarding the possibility of a London showing of such an important exhibition , she adds , ‘ The two years we had to prepare this were simply insufficient to plan it in two separate locations ; the only possible London location would have been the Royal Academy , and there simply was n't enough money . |
| 6 | Nor would a third person enjoy as much as we did the dreams we liked to tell each other . |
| 7 | Like if Nick was dead and I was remembering the things we 'd done this year , perhaps . |
| 8 | By contrast , the bird mentioned in ( 19 ) must be one selected from a group present to the mind of the speaker in the situation of utterance ; this adjective can not be non-restrictive : ( 19 ) the largest parrot made a good supper for the expedition that evening The extraction set in this case might be the parrots we had shot that day . |
| 9 | Calling out our imaginary names we had to find each other . |
| 10 | Indeed , an extraction set may not be based on the denotation of any noun explicitly mentioned at all ; an equally valid extraction set for ( 19 ) might be the creatures we had shot that day . |
| 11 | ‘ After three months of negotiations we had exhausted all avenues . |
| 12 | 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 . |