Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bertie led us down a sloping alleyway to a heavy door where we left our shoes . |
| 2 | We walked around and saw some of the sights until lunch time when we found a nice quiet little pub not far from the Hard Rock Cafe , where we fed our faces . |
| 3 | We had to climb what seemed a never-ending staircase to a high platform where we took our seats in a punt at the top of a slide having water rushing down it . |
| 4 | But as we stumbled down the other side of the hill , and into the dark , dingy pub where we ate our sandwich lunch , the exaltation of that moment passed . |
| 5 | Where we believed their ideas would not work , we have put forward our own alternatives . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is because I was married on November 5 , and all the way down to a miserable , wet Bournemouth where we spent our honeymoon , there were village bonfires set out ready . |
| 7 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
| 8 | Much interest was shown in Medau at a recent ‘ Come and Try It ’ day at Nede House , East Grinstead where we held our own alongside aerobic sessions , soroptomists demonstrations , ballet . |
| 9 | Our horses had more sense and refused to go further so we stabled them at a local inn where we satisfied our hunger on a dish of fish cooked over charcoal before making our way up to the castle . |
| 10 | We had Fred and Ginger to lighten our load , as we settled our tattered bottoms into seats in grand , new palaces — the Astoria in Charing Cross , the Regal ( now the Odeon ) at Marble Arch — where we forgot our troubles in art-deco hotel suites , aboard cruise ships and in nightclubs , all gleaming and glittery on the silver screen . |
| 11 | Although we changed its name to corduroy to give it a touch of class , there is no evidence that the French every called it corde du roi or that kings ever wore it . |
| 12 | After we had lived there for a few years , we wanted to buy it and do it up , so we asked my College for a mortgage . |
| 13 | What happened was that we began to do all kinds of things that are normally done to support a tour that you farm out , but we used to do it in-house , so we had our own publicity department , our own travel department — we booked our own flights and our own hotels , we did n't use a travel agency . |
| 14 | Luckily for us he was too overcome to offer us refreshment , so we said our farewells and got back into the jeep and drove off along the road leading to the village of Breville . |
| 15 | Clearance came at 10 am which made it difficult to get to Bangkok before dark , so we carried our own fuel to make sure we could continue from Rangoon . |
| 16 | By evening the weather was better , but we did n't fancy another night in Porto , so we unpacked our bikes and cycled down through cool pine forests into the town for a well-earned rest . |
| 17 | I was now hot so we filled our water bottle and set off up the track towards to skyline . |
| 18 | He agreed , so we made our plans . |
| 19 | But we wanted this album to be right , so we took our time , organised it all carefully , waited until Dave was available , and together we put a lot of thought and effort into it … ’ |
| 20 | In that faraway Bengali town there were no European shops , certainly no bookshops ; we had books , but few , so we wrote our own . |
| 21 | There was no need for free milk like other school children received , because most of us came from farms with cows , so we brought our own . |
| 22 | Heaps of spoil lay between Stags Fell and the road , so we picked our way through them and down by a wall to the road , following a pleasant series of falls through Shaw Gill Wood above Hardraw Force for a while before hitting the road again where a footpath took us down through flower-spattered meadows to Hardraw . |
| 23 | The weather had improved so we turned our attention to our next project — a modern ice climb — the Supercouloir on the north east face of Mont Blanc du Tacul . |
| 24 | The local musicians who had been brought in to entertain us were not allowed to perform in the guest-house , so we provided our own ( less professional ) entertainment by singing and reciting poetry . |
| 25 | Unfortunately another passenger left a child on the platform at Bangor and had to pull the communication cord , so we missed our connection at Llandudno Junction . |
| 26 | ’ We knew what was to follow , so we bent our heads to hide the blushes … ’ remember , not di halfs of visky … no , no , for dat 's for drinking ( you like visky , Johnny ? ) ’ |
| 27 | Halloween approacheth , you can tell by the plethora of promotional Budweiser pumpkins and bats hung from every spare bit of Pippin 's ‘ pub ’ on Rush St , so we drowned our mortal fear in the spirit of Chicago ( I WILL ! ) and said a dozen Hail Bloody Marys until we could feel the city 's chill wind no more . |
| 28 | On top was the Queen with Princess Anne in a pushchair and Paul McCartney as Dad , and here was one I had near the beginning about being in a space-ship — Brian and me were weightless and floating around , and what we had to do was to get some stability by getting hold of this firework , a sort of Catherine wheel that was going round and round and showering sparks in our faces , so we closed our eyes and a fire-fanged beast roared flames at us and burned a hole in the space-ship and I fell , still with my eyes tight shut , out into the bottomless black void . |
| 29 | We did not speak their language , of course , so we used our hands and faces to show that we were hungry . |
| 30 | But the Pru was not centralised , so we tried their methodology and we 've made it work . |