Example sentences of "[prep] we [vb past] [that] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 This time last year , most of us believed that we were on the threshold of a new era of peace and co-operation in international affairs .
2 ‘ None of us believed that it was right , sensible , logical or professional to split up the company , ’ says Bill Toner .
3 Some of us said that we would keep an eye on what happened to that Act in the years that followed .
4 The rest of us said that it was different , exciting and a chance to get to know each other better .
5 I did n't want to get into soap opera conversation about it with him , but on the occasions that we did talk about it , both of us felt that someone , with perhaps a little more eye on reality , would have realised that he should have been in hospital and not at home unable to reach oxygen .
6 We thus had a perfect relationship : each of us felt that he could patronize the other .
7 In view of this dependence on outside finance , some of us felt that there could perhaps be more concern with the economics of what is being done .
8 All of us assumed that she 'd wandered off to die alone and that , sooner or later , we 'd come across her body , sprawled in a ditch or hidden from view in a clump of thorn trees .
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