Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there are times , like with Phantom of the Opera , where we got wonderful reviews , so we were laughing and happy . |
| 2 | We eventually got away from the station and camped two hours later near a marsh , where we shot some duck for dinner , and two lily-trotters for our collection . |
| 3 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 4 | He took me to lunch at a discreetly ill-lit restaurant and then to an hotel on the Ile St Louis , where we passed two hours of the afternoon gratifying his fantasies . |
| 5 | It is a great pity that not one member of the Liberal Democratic party could be bothered to attend the European Standing Committee this morning , where we debated those matters for nearly two and a half hours . |
| 6 | As a change from wet feet and sightseeing I was smuggled into an English-language class where we drank home-made slivovitz and one of the students , a lugubrious-looking individual called Miroslav who played the bassoon in the Moravia Philharmonic Orchestra , invited me to a concert the following evening . |
| 7 | Do n't you know that Freddie Nash is now sharing Major Hallett 's cottage , where we had that party before Christmas ? |
| 8 | Yet with its residual gentility , its variegated forest of a garden where we had practical botany lessons , and the original Victorian mansion building with its labyrinth of poky rooms and winding staircases , it must have seemed that the convent was an accidental inheritance , never really meant for us , and thereby reminding us that we had come into our own ; we had by right something more than had once been intended for us . |
| 9 | Blair and I also walked out to another , superb loch where we had splendid sport , Scarilode ; about two hours ' walk along a good track from Market Stance , past Rueval , where Charles Edward Stewart lay waiting for Flora Macdonald , prior to his flight from the Hebrides . |
| 10 | Yeah , I 'm rather concerned that this kind of thing seems to be happening rather a lot , I mean this is so reminiscent of what happened in the , the four maisonette in in Fern Hill where we had empty blocks left for a long time erm becoming a magnet for vandalism and all kinds of everything ! |
| 11 | I encountered the reality of a penitential pilgrimage the moment I woke and levered my stiff limbs off the hard school-room floor where we slept last night , and winced as my blister contacted the floor . |
| 12 | ‘ If you take Ebbw Vale as an example , where we rendered 2,500 people redundant in a very close community , we got 1,500 people back to work again within eighteen months by the start-up of nineteen companies . |
| 13 | Mr. Wilberforce and I agree that where we knew one instance of it thirty years ago , there are now a dozen or more . ’ |
| 14 | where we ate roast duck |
| 15 | En route we stopped off in St. Omer with its neat old fashioned square and impressive cathedral where we ate delicious crepes . |
| 16 | At first we travelled through magnificent stretches of forest , where we saw occasional bushbuck and many black-and-white colobus monkeys . |
| 17 | Also we went down to the H.Q. at Pages Park where we saw some men putting up photographs of the line in the past . |
| 18 | Like the one at that farm where we stayed last summer . ’ |
| 19 | The words ‘ domestic flight ’ brought a smile and directions to gate 6 , where we found two gentlemen and an X-ray machine . |
| 20 | Although we passed 60 tanks of Serbian-dominated federal forces parked near the Bosnian border , it is the ruthless veterans of the eastern Croatian conflict who are leading the Serbian offensive in the mountainous republic . |
| 21 | Although we took little heed of his departure , Ruth and I watched Alec being interviewed on TV when he returned . |
| 22 | Although we had little notice of the tour , branches were keen to help and the Association will receive £6,628 representing 50% of the total profits . |
| 23 | Although we had separate houses we were practically living together , ’ she says . |
| 24 | ‘ Although we had regular contact with our Field Officer , some modules had never been assessed before . |
| 25 | Although we had excellent training schemes for our general customs work at this period cutter crews did not receive any specialised instruction for crewing duties . |
| 26 | But my bit had yet to come ; I had no idea if we had sustained damage to the undercarriage , although we had three greens burning bright , I motored in as if to land on new-laid eggs ; all the crew , including Jock the engineer , were at crash stations and we landed " soft as a mouse 's instep " , as Spike used to say . |
| 27 | Although we had three rooms for the sessions , conditions were very cramped and there were last minute hitches with pupils discovering their recorders would n't work or the plug points were too far from the place allocated for the interviews . |
| 28 | Although we used +3 SD above the mean of negative controls as cut off level for positivity in comparison to the +2 SD used by Saxon et al this alone can not explain the differences . |
| 29 | Although we found some firewood in the woods behind the hut , it was bitterly cold . |
| 30 | This was done and almost immediately we noticed increased engine noise . |