Example sentences of "[Wh adv] we [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whenever we walked into the ward , we were enveloped in a duck-down duvet of love . |
| 2 | That is how we came to the conclusion that they should be |
| 3 | You wanted to hear all that stuff about nipples and erections and squeezing and pushing — how we fell onto the bed and nearly crashed it through the floor ? |
| 4 | Can you remember how we talked about the Romans having a very strong army and how they captured land around Rome around it 's lake and before long they 'd captured land all around the Mediterranean Sea and they formed that into what we call the Roman Empire . |
| 5 | If you would like more information on how we coped with the Lloyds ' slope and how you could do the same with yours , write enclosing a stamped addressed envelope to The Horticultural Trades Association , PO Box 56 , Reading , Berkshire RG7 5JJ . |
| 6 | And how we coped with the return to our homes at the end of a day or a trip away . |
| 7 | ‘ We put men in there again last night when we heard about the shooting . |
| 8 | You know when we came in the other day , you came to see the sofa ? |
| 9 | Part of the problem that we got back to when we looked over the issues is that what 's happening in the private sector is not just that it 's growing but that it 's very much in an unplanned fashion . |
| 10 | Next day I lunched with Hugh [ Lygon ] and drank with him all afternoon and sallied out with him fighting drunk at tea-time when we drank at the New Reform until dinner . |
| 11 | We thought we 'd had the last laugh when we got to the play-off finals against Charlton but he was an even bigger pain in the arse after that . |
| 12 | They were still red hot this morning when we got on the market these were . |
| 13 | That to me was one of the most rewarding moments over and above when we got into the big game against New Zealand . |
| 14 | I said well it should n't be the bloody case at all and that 's when we got into the debate about er Aberdeen to er one following half half an hour after the other . |
| 15 | Do you remember when we went into the church with Mandeville and the rest ? |
| 16 | He says : ‘ Although the medal has only recently been created , it was a proud and memorable day when we went to the Polish Embassy in London to receive it . ’ |
| 17 | And that , that 's when we went on the ship . |
| 18 | I do n't know when we went on the coach to Mannock Farm Camp Site erm you know , and it 's a long old haul ! |
| 19 | I can recall one memorable evening when we met in the Pathfinder Club just as soon as it had opened in the evening ; I was attached to the Air Ministry at the time and it was very soon after the war as we still wore uniform . |
| 20 | He had to go you see , but I mean er later in my lifetime when we lived in the in the village at I can remember very very well the the er the miners there er going to work and then coming home again , going to work and coming home again , nothing for them to do . |
| 21 | I 've managed to erm , the first time we went skiing is when we lived in the States , we went to like , er , not dry ski slopes there , but it was like false snow , that 's the same as you erm , they were really , was like eleven years ago , sort of like , technology had n't quite advanced terribly much , you know , and these bindings , you had like , metal clips on the bottom of your boots , and you had to put the thing in and clip the boot , clip the thing round on the skis , to keep your boot on the ski , right , it was n't like toe clips where you shove your foot , |
| 22 | The bemused Parisians did n't know what the fuck we were on about when we asked for the ‘ Adidas Centre ’ in several differing French accents . |
| 23 | It was eight o'clock when we arrived at the station and got on the train , and by half-past nine we were in Strelsau . |
| 24 | A third curiosity of the discount market is the one we hinted at in section 5.1 when we referred to the Bank of England 's appearing on both sides of the market , as a seller of treasury bills on the government 's behalf and as a buyer . |
| 25 | Government housing policy as we found tonight when we voted on the rates is to bring public sector rents into line with private sector rents . |
| 26 | but anyway , erm , it came as a bit of a shock to me when who was at that time the Horticultural Adviser or Horticultural Organiser as they used to call him , turned up at home at Debenham where we lived at the time and er said he 'd come to collect my typewriter we had no notice of this anyway was erm a jolly old soul and erm he went off with my typewriter and erm shorthand machine and the next day my father brought me into Ipswich and erm , well I saw and did a bit of typing and erm , that 's how it all started . |
| 27 | My father who was a er a clergyman taught me the piano from an early age and er I first became interested in the organ purely for money purposes in fact , when at the age of fifteen a local methodist church in Durham where we lived at the time said er , We need an organist . |
| 28 | We then all got into taxis and we went off to the Coconut Grove at the top half of Regent Street where we spent until the small hours of the morning . |
| 29 | I tell it just as it happened , from where we ran up the hill almost straight into the man ; I leave out what Andy and I were doing just before , and the man 's line about dirty , perverted things . |
| 30 | ‘ I left on Monday morning from Amsterdam , where I met my brother and his girlfriend , and we continued to Miami , and from Miami to St Maarten , from St Maarten to Anguilla where we arrived in the middle of the night . |