Example sentences of "to [noun] [conj] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been studying a guide-book to Zamora before we left . |
| 2 | Talking to Pierre as we fished off the coast of Brittany had first given me the idea of working on a trawler . |
| 3 | I should n't say to anything to Miss cos we do n't know what she got . |
| 4 | ‘ Made of birchwood they were — this wood 's mostly oak and birch giving way to conifers as we come out , with a view of the foothills . ’ |
| 5 | I did it when when we went to camp while we went |
| 6 | You know because we often talk to artists and we ask you know how it happened and and most of them say like topsy it just grew er that that there 's no planned career but with you with the tours er set and the album set it it seems to be more of a controlled career with you two . |
| 7 | If he gets to Bernard before we know the details of the hit it 'll leave us totally in the dark . |
| 8 | Mum knew about us and mentioned it to Sarah when we came back here after your wedding . ’ |
| 9 | erm and he was released and he came to Harlow and we meet him and that was , that was very good , erm , but we have n't had one like that , you know for a long time . |
| 10 | It must have been then that the two coaches came to light because we moved house in 1925 and quite certainly the coaches were never at the old house but appeared very early on at the new one . |
| 11 | Some of the answers are only now coming to light as we find out more about the structures of the proteins that go to make up living cells themselves . |
| 12 | Steve , I always said to Steven if we have a kid I said I hope it looks like me I said but I hope it got your temperament come out exactly wrong . |
| 13 | I have gave her the co-ordinates from the Emissary 's message , instructing her to drop down to Underlight as we neared that point . |
| 14 | We have paid out eight times as much in funds to industry as we have taken in premiums since 1984 . |
| 15 | If you have already rejected hotels as too pricey , and youth hostels as too lugubrious , then two further types of accommodation spring to mind when we consider the problem of finding accommodation in the wild and lonely Scottish hills : bothies and tents . |
| 16 | I keep moving this from side to side cos we keep swopping . |
| 17 | Our own hardships palled to insignificance when we learned that often their ships were away from home for six months , and that they could be roaming as far afield as Nova Scotia after leaving Scotland . |
| 18 | So we had to go to pictures and we had to have a few or whatever . |
| 19 | ‘ We created a virtuous circle , ’ said Lockett , ‘ since the act of instituting the questionnaire in itself demonstrated to clients that we cared about them and their requirements . ’ |
| 20 | Before I had really recovered , I found myself at the railway station , where I said goodbye to Dulcie and we went our separate ways , promising to keep in touch , as one does . |
| 21 | A third of this accommodation has already been let to Deminex and we have also extended and upgraded our premises at East Tullos at a cost of £500,000 to support a new long-term contract with Enterprise Oil . |
| 22 | At Elstree a quite famous actress got in , and cooed a bit to Heather until we got to London . |
| 23 | Existing stations must be brought into line with EC standards by December 1995 , but as you know the Computing Sub-Group has recommended to Management that we comply with the legislation as soon as practicable . |
| 24 | Scuds of rain gave way to sun as we got near to the end of the loch . |
| 25 | I suggest to Council that we adopt the following approach : |
| 26 | Then of course the there were area combat missions , area missions but these had nothing to do er with the work training I think that and I did and in developing of our crews so that we were able to survive and of course er our mission that we thought that would probably be the same as was on the fourteenth when we went to Schweinfurt and we made it back and not only that but we got back to England , we 'd manage on about the third pass to get in to this one field and there was another plane trying to get in and they went up and bailed out and after we were eating our supper here they brought the men in the fields er where they , on the bombers ' field where they had landed the never got in so they went up and set the plane on automatic pilot and bailed out because they could n't land the plane but we managed to take them out and I think there was the extra good flying training and I did together that made us able to survive the savage attacks that we had , he had it on the Munster mission , I had it on the Schweinfurt mission . |
| 27 | She did , I 'd never forget it as long as I live , I thought to myself well you stupid cow , all she could think of was a fifty pence key , so I , I said to them , I said to the girls I 'm glad to be out but of course when they all went cos there was Lynda and all the girls from customer service that were kicked out and all of us that were there and they all said oh we 've got ta go back to work and we said oh ai n't that a shame you know , and we all went |
| 28 | Before we had we bought a house and so I really had to come back to work because we needed my wages and erm the creche was just being brought out so I knew there was a chance of coming back . |
| 29 | We can see the similarities here between the scientific approach to organisations and its similarity to bureaucracy that we looked at in the previous chapter . |
| 30 | A senior executive at Jardine Matheson , Hong Kong Land 's parent , said : ‘ We have not talked to Olympia and we have no intention of doing so . ’ |