Example sentences of "we [vb past] at [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WE met at our usual rendezvous , the King 's Hotel , for coffee and a chat before a roast beef lunch . |
| 2 | We arrived at our new lodging in Althorp Street , Bedford , feeling a little suspicious , as the Billeting Officer protested rather too much that the billetors were anxious to have us . |
| 3 | We arrived at our open and welcoming hotel in thick snow , excited at the prospect of Schiehallion under a blanket of white . |
| 4 | One thing that has not been taken up very thoroughly at this stage is the question of teaching of mathematics in primary schools , and this is a field that erm we decided at our last meeting that we must erm look into . |
| 5 | Thank you very much for that question , I think it is an important one , because we looked at our international work , as we did at all our work , over the period that we were considering reorganisation . |
| 6 | In girls ' work , for example , we began to learn from our experiences and commit ourselves to ensuring that facilities were genuinely available also to Jewish young women — that we tackled anti-Semitism ; that young women with disabilities were not excluded , and that we looked at our oppressive attitudes to disability and the institutions in which these were enshrined . |
| 7 | As we discussed at our first meeting and as I subsequently discussed with Angela Rumbold , it was very clear that unless there was a preparedness on the part of the Home Office to take its hands off the management of the Prison Service in its day to day business and allow itself to be constrained by matters of policy only , then it would not be possible to effect the changes which you deem desirable and which have become very clear to me as being necessary during the talks I have had and the visits I have made . |
| 8 | We paused at his favourite green , the 6th/12th , where he bent to stroke the surface : ‘ Feel that , pure velvet ’ . |