Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we asked for marks out of ten , or thermometer ratings out of a hundred , we can use relative scores for different parties to construct measures of preference . |
| 2 | It led to an abandoned fishing hamlet called Hamningberg , where we camped for the night in a grassy field studded with interesting saxifrages and other flowers . |
| 3 | Her sons would often invite me to some remote corner where we hoped against hope that we would not disturb the siesta of the compound , though we were rarely successful . |
| 4 | We proceeded from the old bay at Caraven Arms used by the BC Railway and walked by road to the site of the old Strettford Bridge Junction , where we took to the old track bed as far as Glen Burrell Bridge , where we joined the road again , calling in on the Rev. Ray Arnold at Horderley , who was waiting with coffee and biscuits . |
| 5 | March and February we spent on the Brenner , where we lodged at three different farmsteads . |
| 6 | We were jolted from the Delta to the coast , where we disappeared into a giant galvanised iron shed . |
| 7 | SIR — I have just returned with my family from Tignes , France , where we cheered on my son Graham Nugent and his fellow team members in the fifth Paralympics . |
| 8 | We cycled down through Vigo to the port , where we jostled with the locals to get the bikes aboard a ferry across the Ria de Vigo to Cangas on the Peninsula de Morazo , before cycling to the little sleepy fishing village of Bueu , which was quiet and unspoilt . |
| 9 | In the afternoon we visited the Priory ruins where we prayed for unity and for the Decade of Evangelisation and finished off with a lusty rendition of Faith of our Fathers ! |
| 10 | Nevertheless , he has not honoured the spirit of the words that he used in Committee , where we engaged in a long debate about the value of the assets and the effect on the workers . |
| 11 | We also had a polyester business where we had to both change the technology and the products if we were to win . |
| 12 | Time for souvenirs for loved ones : a candle lit and a cuppa , all too soon lunchtime and then the gather in Friday Market where we met with the pilgrims from Hull , Middlesbrough ( day group ) and Stroud Green , N. London — all bathed in sunshine . |
| 13 | But we do say that its object [ has ] been gained , and that after all the stir and excitement , the inconvenience … we are back where we wished to be , and with the miners ' case under negotiation . |
| 14 | That evening we left Fort St Nogent on a coach for the Gare de Lyons where we embarked for the south of France on an overnight express . |
| 15 | When we were born we did n't have this difficulty — we did things how we felt like , when we felt like and where we felt like . |
| 16 | I learned to love what Diana and Mary loved — the little old grey house , the wild open moors around it , and the lonely hills and valleys where we walked for hours . |
| 17 | At midday Romany cut the engines , and Milhaez steered the barge into a narrow inlet where we moored between the bank and a low island of reeds and stunted palms . |
| 18 | At one end of the town was a bank where we went on our first day to change some money . |
| 19 | But , that where we went to that pub that time with Geoff , that 's the first time I 've been up there . |
| 20 | ‘ We shouted back , trying to explain who we were and where we came from . |
| 21 | But physics and astronomy offered the hope of understanding where we came from and why we were here . |
| 22 | A German Customs officer asked us about our trip and where we came from . |
| 23 | Maybe we should have solved our problems more quickly ( of course in a perfect world everyone always should ) , but better by far to have gone on and on , testing , probing , questioning and changing , until we finally had a solution which worked and could take us where we wanted to be . |
| 24 | We also spent time in the capital , Guatemala City , where we talked to senior government officials like the defence minister , General Jose Garcia Samayoa . |
| 25 | They took us to the airport , where we flew to Peking via Hangchow . |
| 26 | We were then posted to 406 Sqn RCAF where we converted to Beaufighters . |
| 27 | Those of us lucky enough to be in the choir were sitting on benches in the corridor beside the hall , an open corridor where we sat at right-angles to the rest of the school . |
| 28 | I 'm convinced he drew me aside , away from Jeeta and Jamila , into the store-room , where we sat on wooden boxes like skiving factory workers , because he was ashamed , or at least bashful , about his unsweet victory . |
| 29 | I thought of the chessplayers in the Park , where we sat for so many hours , the chessplayers , more various by far than the pieces they wielded ( the players not erect , not regulated , but mumbling , shambling , rhomboid ) . |
| 30 | At a place called Morro Chico there was a tiny inn where we sat around the stove ourselves . |