Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We then drove inland , through the Buller Gorge and Murchison and up to St. Arnaud , a village at the head of Lake Rotoiti in the Nelson Lakes National Park , where we stayed at the backpackers ' , the only accommodation available . |
| 2 | Where we stopped at the junction . ’ |
| 3 | After the visit Avice said that " finding a solution will take longer than we thought at the end of last year " . |
| 4 | We have even 1,500,000 fewer children than we had at the time of the Boer War … . |
| 5 | For many of us , Betty Jackson 's clothes are simply too expensive so we jumped at the chance to feature the latest Betty Jackson Vogue patterns . |
| 6 | Once we arrived at the house she asked us whether we would go and pick up someone else from the doctor 's surgery who she worked with . |
| 7 | Cos we lived at the top of the second hill , opposite erm Doctor s er house , the famous eye surgeon . |
| 8 | The BX 4x4 Estate , yesterday a safari vehicle , became today a Grand Tourer as we made our farewell circuit through picturesque villages and bustling market towns until we arrived at the old spa resort of Buxton , said to be the highest town in England , where we had , reluctantly , to admit that it was time to head for home . |
| 9 | The BX 4×4 Estate , yesterday a safari vehicle , became today a Grand Tourer as we made our farewell circuit through picturesque villages and bustling market towns until we arrived at the old spa resort of Buxton , said to be the highest town in England , where we had reluctantly to admit that it was time to head for home . |
| 10 | The restaurant was still standing but I suspected some unpleasantness had taken place as neither of them said a word until we arrived at the hospital again . |
| 11 | Since the Opposition , clearly , try to make the worst of the current figures , would it not give a truer picture if we looked at the figures of only five years back ? |
| 12 | However , if we looked at the total costs of using the vehicles one could argue that by using reducing balance the repair costs in later life would be compensated by the additional depreciation in earlier years so achieving a matching of costs and revenues over the assets ' life . |
| 13 | This year we 've restricted it to primary , partly because we felt that 's where the enthusiasm was , and partly , if people wo n't mind me saying so , to keep out the computer science specialists — we felt that , you know , we did n't want a club for boffins or for the experts , we wanted a club and we felt that if we started at the primary end , where there was n't a lot of expertise , we would probably be of more use . |
| 14 | However , we should not do that if we joined at the wrong exchange rate — as happened , as the hon. Member for Newham , North-East ( Mr. Leighton ) explained , with eastern Germany . |
| 15 | This would have been impossible unless we camped at the foot of Beinn Eibhinn , or had started from Loch Ossian at dawn , or were two gold medalist fell-runners . |
| 16 | The tax burden under this Government rose during our first two and a half years because we inherited at the top of the business cycle a borrowing requirement of 5.5 per cent . |
| 17 | Then they were whisked off to the museum , while we stayed at the hotel waiting for news of our flight to Nanking . |
| 18 | Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time . |
| 19 | In the four years since we looked at the Subaru estate , it 's gone upmarket with a bang . |
| 20 | Before we looked at the Fort , we sat in a chai shop , sipping hot tea and reading out loud from Inayat Khan 's chronicle . |
| 21 | Just before we arrived at the station , the lights came on . |
| 22 | We finished just before we arrived at the main gate of the chateau . |
| 23 | Our one day visit soon stretched to two , and when we left at the end of three superb days ' climbing there were still routes we wanted to do . |
| 24 | When we met at the Bacon show and I smiled at him he smiled back at once , then remembered and tried to scowl , but could n't and we both burst out laughing . |
| 25 | His words when we met at the start of the Championship kept coming back : ‘ Willie , I 'm going to win the Open for you this week . |
| 26 | As the somewhat recalcitrant and irascible member of the famous ‘ What 's My Line ’ panel broadcast on BBC television for years , Gilbert could be and was difficult , but when we met at the Coq d'Or Restaurant on Stratton Street , just off Piccadilly , he was the soul of charm . |
| 27 | But when we looked at the location , our feeling was that it was close to the City and there were professional couples living nearby . |
| 28 | When we looked at the lighter and darker areas separately we found considerable differences . |
| 29 | When we looked at the additional explanatory power brought to these models by information about the worker 's family responsibilities we found that parenthood had little effect on men 's labour force participation or pay . |
| 30 | When we looked at the cu cumulative percentage mortality and major morbidity it was found to be significantly less in those sites performing more than one hundred operations , compared to those sites performing less than one hundred operations , during the audit period . |