Example sentences of "we [vb past] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rode in the field for the first two weeks , and then I had to face the roads and the tractors . |
| 2 | It has been nigh on a full month since we first made a landfall on to the north shore : since we rode in the longboat on the crest of the shining surf and I set my foot withal on this fair land in the name of the King . |
| 3 | It 's not acceptable , it 's not acceptable Chairman , we agreed in the P A G , it was n't acceptable . |
| 4 | It is quite possible clearly that that number could be reduced , during the consultation process on the on the local plan , I think that 's an important point because of the issue of windfall that was mentioned by Mr Davis , and was raised yesterday , reference to historic trends in the city of York do show that erm we have exceeded structure plan targets by substantial amounts , I think the figure is is forty percent or or more , er the County Council could confirm that , slightly difficult calculation to do because I 'm sure you 'll be aware that to our eternal shame , the City Council has not to date adopted a formal local plan , with reference erm to your question on day one er as to whether or not we might calculate contribution of windfalls in the past , we have looked at the nineteen eighty seven residential land availability er study , which was agreed with the house builders , adjacent districts , and of course the County , and in the five year period of that study , by comparison with the sites that we agreed in the study , an additional four hundred and thirty dwellings came forward and were completed on sites that had not been identified in the study , now I 'd I would say very clearly that that level of windfalls erm would not continue in the future and it could not be a reliable basis for erm looking at windfall contributions in the city in the future , clearly the supply of development land in the city is a is a finite resource , er given given the constraints that are current holding , and although some additional windfalls to the two hundred I 'd suggested in my H One may come forward , on the other hand I suspect some of the sites suggested in the draft local plan could fall out of the equation . |
| 5 | When we met in the lounge it rapidly became clear that he was not in his usual good humour . |
| 6 | We met in the Legion . ’ |
| 7 | It was two boys we met in the club . |
| 8 | Before we went we met in the family room , Tremayne pretending nonchalance and looking unexpectedly sophisticated in his dinner jacket : grey hair smooth in wings , strong features composed , bulky body slimmed by ample expert tailoring . |
| 9 | We interpret everything that happens here as happening to the man we met in the living room who is now at a club . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Department is meeting all the commitments that we made in the citizens charter White Paper . |
| 12 | I make the point because , in the report that we are debating , we make several recommendations and we wish the Government to take them more seriously than those that we made in the past . |
| 13 | What is probably less apparent in the figures is the significant expenditure we made in the areas of health , safety , quality , the environment and in developing and training our personnel . |
| 14 | Erm a number of years ago we read in the paper that the Farnsfield borehole was being updated and |
| 15 | I wondered what the place with towers and searchlights had been that we passed in the night . |
| 16 | The afternoons we passed in the hotel courtyard where we ate , read , played cards , and slept like cats in a paradise of shade , northerly breezes and birdsong , while the town outside baked . |
| 17 | But there is the same substantial caveat which we registered in the case of the Nuer : the particular kind of mystical powers which sustain the social order can not be predicted from the social order . |
| 18 | And if we lived in the country then it would n't be me coming home every night whacked out and wanting to be looked after and having a squawking infant instead . |
| 19 | 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 , |
| 20 | Even that very first night , at that party at the Estwicks ’ place , you were wishing we lived in the days when a man could keep his mistress hidden away . ’ |
| 21 | We lived in the San Ramon district on the outskirts of the city . |
| 22 | We lived in the tenement block that ran its whole length in a top-storey room and kitchen with no bathroom and an outside toilet shared with several other families and reached by an open staircase . |
| 23 | My mother came from around here , and we lived in the area until I was about eight years old . |
| 24 | I was n't supposed to be a novelty that people come to look at , like we became in the Beatles . |
| 25 | ‘ Yeah , until we got in the car to come here . ’ |
| 26 | Oh we were waiting and waiting in the end we got in the car . |
| 27 | I have a suspicion that the justifiable coverage we got in the media hardened the hearts at Shire Hall . |
| 28 | So , as soon as we got in the studio , I was on the trail . ’ |
| 29 | The girls were being taken in at night after we left and what a mess we got in the morning ! |
| 30 | We announced in the Budget an important first step towards a basic Income Tax rate of 20p . |