Example sentences of "we [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We dwelled in the fair , listened to the conflicting |
| 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 | We rode in the field for the first two weeks , and then I had to face the roads and the tractors . |
| 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 | It 's not acceptable , it 's not acceptable Chairman , we agreed in the P A G , it was n't acceptable . |
| 6 | When we met in the lounge it rapidly became clear that he was not in his usual good humour . |
| 7 | We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin . |
| 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 | Appropriately enough , we met in the Hominid Room of the Natural History museum , a light spacious rectangular chamber with a glass wall on one side that looks out on a grassy park . |
| 10 | We met in the Legion . ’ |
| 11 | We interpret everything that happens here as happening to the man we met in the living room who is now at a club . |
| 12 | But my boss is a resilient character and when we met in the late afternoon he was bursting with his old spirit . |
| 13 | We met in the early morning . |
| 14 | We met in the odd foursome and it did n't really work out . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was two boys we met in the club . |
| 17 | The errors we made in the 1960s and 1970s can , and are , being corrected . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Department is meeting all the commitments that we made in the citizens charter White Paper . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If anybody wants to comment on it , or any I think perhaps just confirm the calculation about being roughly one a day , that erm if you take the number of decisions that we made in the last twelve months , twenty one point eight percent of which were , erm , decisions to be put out by twenty six five , if we divide that by four , divide it by fifty two , and divide it by five you end up with point eight six per day , er |
| 22 | Well , we 've got a couple that we made in the fifties . |
| 23 | Erm a number of years ago we read in the paper that the Farnsfield borehole was being updated and |
| 24 | Once we finally identified the leaked document , we countered in the most conclusive way known in politics : we published it in its entirety . |
| 25 | I wondered what the place with towers and searchlights had been that we passed in the night . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We lived in the San Ramon district on the outskirts of the city . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |