Example sentences of "[noun sg] we [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dear me , when I was a child we went to church twice every Sunday . |
| 2 | At Engineers ' Hall we listened to experts like D. A. D. Reeve , chief executive of the Severn Trent Water Authority , D. Gaulter , director general of the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors , and W. T. Devenay , director of water , Strathclyde Regional Council . |
| 3 | When I was a girl we moved to Swindon . |
| 4 | And who was the youngest FA Cup final referee , a question we repeated to Referees Association president Peter Willis who handled the 1985 final . |
| 5 | With John Cocks cursing the fact that he had not brought his tripod and frustrated by the lack of lighting equipment we had to content ourselves with lunch sans photography . |
| 6 | On Sunday 6th we have a free day — a much needed respite to enable us to prepare some of our work for the next week — but in the evening we went to dinner with from the embassy , as well as with two senior visitors from London , one from the British Council ( , who is responsible for all Chinese visits ) and one from the Foreign Office . |
| 7 | In the next war we changed to munitions and they tried to bomb us . |
| 8 | At the time of the referendum we said to people , ‘ Do not worry — your powers will be OK ; your government is still in charge ; democracy is OK ; all that we are joining is a free-trade area . ’ |
| 9 | With additional champagne we drank to Dot 's dream script . |
| 10 | After an eventful afternoon we returned to Matthew 's house . |
| 11 | In the afternoon we drove to Delhi , where I was accommodated in Claridges Hotel . |
| 12 | In the afternoon we went to Robin Hill Adventure Park . |
| 13 | Then this afternoon we went to Croydon . |
| 14 | Of course we went to bed late last night as well |
| 15 | If all that money we gave to Band Aid did n't do the trick , it must be because there are just too many of them . |
| 16 | The next day we returned to Delhi to find that the storm had broken . |
| 17 | And so it came to pass that on the third day we journeyed to Gstaad and skied . |
| 18 | In the same day we went to Oulton board to do the same thing but in freezing cold water that was not as much fun as the survival tank . |
| 19 | On another day we went to St. Anne 's where I played on the sands that were not a patch on those of the South Coast . |
| 20 | The next day we went to Colesfield . |
| 21 | By day we went to school , and in the evenings our grandmother read to us from the Bible and Dr David Livingstone 's journal . |
| 22 | The next day we went to Breckland to look for a bird that some people think of as ‘ a bit of a bustard ’ . |
| 23 | The next day we went to Haseley Manor and Alum Bay . |
| 24 | On our final day we went to Didcot . |
| 25 | The next day we went to Irene Norton 's house , with the King . |
| 26 | Our stay in Quebec city — a beautiful city — was , regrettably , only for one day and the next day we moved to Montreal . |
| 27 | Although Johnson twice found the hillocky little town lacking — ‘ At night we came to Bamff [ sic ] , where I remember nothing that particularly claimed my attention ’ ; and ‘ Finding nothing to detain us at Bamff , we set out in the morning ’ — he yet managed to write a short exercise in observation of Scottish small borough architecture . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the father we spoke to fears the worst … |
| 29 | In the morning we went to Carisbrooke Castle and took part in a game to see how to get into the castle . |
| 30 | So the next day it was Sa Saturday er Saturday morning we went to Jameson er can I call that that shop ? |