Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb past] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three small inner-city communities that we studied in this way would have been assumed by traditional scholars to be homogeneous in language , and the fine-grained but systematic variation I am referring to here would not have been thought possible . |
| 2 | I thought we 'd done that , because that that was the remit that we agreed at this table round this table . |
| 3 | And erm we know that we went along this hill and we went along fifteen kilometres . |
| 4 | That erm , am er fire brigade , that was the station that we went to this morning , they are called fire and rescue . |
| 5 | right , right what I see as an interesting possibility the papers that we got in this week from Telford College that came to me |
| 6 | It was with a certain sense of foreboding — as if we had seen an omen — that we descended from this mountain fastness to the domain of the Bugis , where we knew we had just two months left to find a prahu to carry us eastwards before the monsoon set in … |
| 7 | Roy [ Jenkins ] ruminated : ‘ Your memory is better than mine , Prime Minister , but I believe it is ten years ago to this very day that we sat in this room discussing the Defence Review . |
| 8 | Surely no civil servant had more unique or peaceful surroundings in which to work than we did on this day . |
| 9 | We 'll not be building any more than we intended for this year — well , a house or two more , maybe , but nothing beyond . |
| 10 | We were all starvin' , Chief , so we went to this canteen . |
| 11 | And we got on this subject . |
| 12 | Auck Auckland and we went there and we went into this restaurant well believe it or not , I 've never seen food like that , I mean Joy asked for a leg of lamb , I did n't say leg of lamb , I had the cod pieces |
| 13 | We went down there they 'd arranged for us er place to sleep and everything , and we went to this meeting it was quite a big hall I think they were all like Trade Union delegates and that . |
| 14 | Rochers town , we were only a short way and we went to this house , we were only young coppers , and we had this friend call on us and we looked out , he was going back into the car and he looked down the street and he said , my God there 's an awful lot of children around here , they must do nothing but screw all the time |
| 15 | And we went round this estate ca n't remember where it was and erm thought knock on the doors and se , ask people had seen it and then later in the day this woman phoned up and said she saw a couple of kids walk down the road with it and sort of ca , called them over and said oh I heard that his , his . |
| 16 | And we ran to this house I said |
| 17 | And we worked on this contract for two month , to try it out for him but we were thirty pound a week less , and we had over two hundred slates a day more , on the on this contract . |
| 18 | I then er , we then broke away and went up to the er , I suppose it 's the , I do n't know what part of the , but it 's the Dales , that 's where I moved to then and then to because my dad could n't , getting on in years , he could n't take the hills up and then from I got married and we moved into this address here and then that was the day after war was declared that I got married . |
| 19 | ‘ If we continued down this road here , we 'd still reach the Fire Court , ’ said Snodgrass , who was quite good at maps and found them interesting . |
| 20 | if we bargained about this issue , or ones related to it before , then the issue is negotiable now |
| 21 | Do any of the districts want to be drawn on a choice or are you still maintaining the line which you have persisted in maintaining since we embarked on this discussion on Thursday , where we have two districts well sorry , Mr and Mr not agreeing in principle with the new settlement . |
| 22 | A quarter of a million was taken off erm before we got into this budget cycle . |
| 23 | He came to see me in our hotel the night before we came to this country , and … |
| 24 | ‘ Before we came aboard this ship I was thinking of the possibilities . ’ |
| 25 | It was like Coalite , er when we first came here , oh yes it was , yes , but we have electric fires of course as well to , what we did because we were both out working all the time , we had electric fires and I think my husband , husband had them allied to a timeswitch and they came on before we came in , an hour or so , before we came in this room and in that room |
| 26 | As we saw in this chapter , more recently it has been found that this account of processing can not be correct for at least three reasons : ( a ) there is evidence that syntactic and semantic processing is not delayed until the end of the clause ; ( b ) there is evidence that information about the specific wording is retained after the end of a clause if that clause contains nonspecific words which subsequent clauses will disambiguate ; ( c ) specific wording will also be retained if it has pragmatic significance . |
| 27 | We had tried to get a couple of er , here in Portsmouth but he had to attend , so we thought as we prepared for this conference this morning er , on the miners , that it would be appropriate to get a miner 's lamp to put and have them simply inscribed with the erm , the memory of the occasion , which turned out to be |
| 28 | As we reported in this space in January , World Cup broadcast managers TSL did the United States ' game a disservice by making a deal with a network which showed the World Cup final almost four months after it was played . |