Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] we [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our club accountant discovered the shortages and we called in the police . ’ |
| 2 | Sure enough , I went over there with the other inspectors and we said to the sergeants : ‘ Fall in the men . ’ |
| 3 | And then we stayed a few days in London and we went to the Baths and we went to the zoo and we went to all the science , by either the old trams or the first of the buses that Cos they complete with tram-riding and that was rather exciting in London , seeing the all the top hats and people in coats , tails and things . |
| 4 | His words when we met at the start of the Championship kept coming back : ‘ Willie , I 'm going to win the Open for you this week . |
| 5 | The skirls and laments still echoed in our heads as we rolled through the West 's brooding , lonely landscapes . |
| 6 | Let me read you two or three other verses from that same book of Hebrews that we read from a few moments ago . |
| 7 | When we left the headman 's house we were joined by a group of young boys who 'd been waiting outside with their dogs , and by other men from houses that we passed along the way . |
| 8 | Just as a matter of interest I was gon na bring up onto the er planning minutes for the tenth of January but as I was n't allowed er The I had a phone call from the electricity board following the erm erm discussions that we had about the power supply on Road , they 'd received a follow up enquiry from the press , if you recall we expressed concern that we thought that secured following the harsh winter three years ago . |
| 9 | The agreement on norms that we noticed in the inner city seems here to have been weakened . |
| 10 | I think what I 'm trying to say is , in the minutes that we produced for the last meeting , it says that a copy of it will be available for the next meeting |
| 11 | By the very nature of our work , we Met girls knew many more of the air crews than we did of the ground staff . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One of the great advantages that we had in the ‘ twenties was comparatively safe and clear streets , parked cars would have stopped many of our games and I imagine that tops would not have been popular with car owners . |
| 14 | It 's not like the prayers that we heard about a few weeks ago , from Paul 's letters to Timothy and Philemon , where he was addressing an individual . |
| 15 | Melanie took her legs and I took the bows and we struggled up the steps , Carol 's bum hitting most of them , which I reckoned Melanie was doing deliberately . |
| 16 | There 's a common interest of course of avoiding war for most people anyway , but there 's also a common interest we know related to environmental issues and that can not be dealt with by each country , each country may have unique environmental problems but environmental problems straddle erm boundaries of countries as we saw from the Chernobyl problem of some years ago . |
| 17 | A light breeze from the north cleared the air and the sun blazed out over distant mountains as we headed between the Crowlin Isles and shaped up towards the Kyle of Localsh . |
| 18 | ‘ But there were n't any mountains when we came along the road earlier . ’ |
| 19 | But we used to l I think I can remember going three times and we went on the train and we would have a big label with branch number seven , we were Walsall Wood and we were always told that , you know , you look on the sea front if you get lost , cos you 've got your name and who you belong to on card was all given out . |
| 20 | I clapped Jamie on the shoulder a couple of times and we made for the street . |
| 21 | Yes , we just went round the houses and we said to the people , you know , why we was getting nicked , and they just signed their names . |
| 22 | The only exception to this procedure was on those days that we went to a service in the church . |
| 23 | The main emphasis of the classical writers on organisations that we examined in the previous chapter was upon the formal characteristics of organisations , particularly in terms of organisational structure . |
| 24 | The tax burden under this Government rose during our first two and a half years because we inherited at the top of the business cycle a borrowing requirement of 5.5 per cent . |
| 25 | He was never found , though they searched for him on elephants while we returned to the palace . |
| 26 | In the four years since we looked at the Subaru estate , it 's gone upmarket with a bang . |
| 27 | It was my father who started me off , about three years after we moved into the village dad joined the Debenham Players the local amateur dramatics society . |
| 28 | I do hope the senders do not mind my reproducing them , but they certainly brightened Mike 's and my days as we slogged through the sorting and despatching process : |
| 29 | The wa the river water 's very very polluted there , so a lot of people got tummy bugs and we slept er on the side of the river in little tents and erm we did n't discover till afterwards , two things , one thing was that the little holes that we saw in the sand were actually scorpion holes |
| 30 | ‘ We would not , I believe , if we had had that situation , have had the strength to deal with the Falklands , with Iraq and with the economic difficulties that we had in the early 1980s , ’ he said . |