Example sentences of "[noun] we [vb past] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The other car , the other De Dion we had , burst its radiator , but we are very resourceful ; we went and bought thirty foot of garden hose and connected it to the engine and sent the water round and round the car and that acted as a radiator , and we drove it for a week like that . |
| 2 | From Blakethwaite Dams we walked on south past the shooting box belonging to Lord Peel 's estate through a landscape which was now a desert of lead-mine spoil , called on the map by the strangely incongruous name of Merry Field . |
| 3 | At Frinton we played a one-armed bandit for two whole clattering hours and never attained three fruits in a row — but did we mope ? |
| 4 | You know damn well I 've never blamed you for what happened that night ; it was one of those risks we had to take . |
| 5 | The main buyers and holders of bills , sometimes called the ‘ market makers ’ , are the nine discount houses , members of the London Discount Market Association ( LDMA ) , whose characteristics we described in section 3.3 . |
| 6 | The further north we reached the more weird and wonderful floating contraptions we encountered , merchant ships converted to drilling barges , special pipe-laying barges which were mini-townships within themselves with populations of up to 200 crewmen . |
| 7 | And I think the way we did it we marked down the three shops we wanted to do and make sure you do those three shops . |
| 8 | look at this traffic coming in now I think the way we did it , we marked down the three shops we wanted to do |
| 9 | According to the itinerary Wednesday was a rest day but after a half-hearted attempt at browsing around the Keswick shops we decided that the call of the fells was too strong to resist and headed for the Langdales . |
| 10 | They are more explicit than , but have the same implication as , the more general guidelines we made . |
| 11 | With the larger numbers to be attained , attempts will be made to correlate our findings with various clinical features and environmental factors , to analyse the meaning of the association we described the present study . |
| 12 | On an outing to the obscure Gate Crag in Eskdale we picked a route called Bosigran — this had to be climbed because I 'd just returned from my first climbing trip to Cornwall . |
| 13 | We 've sold all the stock we had of pink rock , |
| 14 | With so much happening , and no central authority , Lorne and I were constantly harried by the attempt to film only the crucial events , which appeared to erupt spontaneously at any time of the day or night , while conserving the precious little film stock we had put aside for the intended Bugis film . |
| 15 | one thing Pat , I still need to know erm what stock we started all the selling . |
| 16 | On the plus side we sold and bought Ian Baird twice and overall made a healthy profit of over half a million . |
| 17 | Just to be on the safe side we had a long rope attached to the raft and tied round a tree on the bank so that if the Indians lost control the rope would pull it to a stop . |
| 18 | Similarly on deck and on the navigational side we had all that was necessary but everything was very basic down to the manual anchor winch . |
| 19 | But we had to choose , early on , which side we belonged to , and children have to come down on the side that brings the food home and gets it on the table . |
| 20 | On one side we looked into a vast ravine . |
| 21 | On the west side we felt the full force of the wind which was by then force five to six . |
| 22 | We struck out for Cambridge and although we made the odd wrong turn they were quickly rectified and with luck on our side we found the hotel . |
| 23 | On Orkney 's west coast cliffs we filmed the memorial to Lord Kitchener and the men of the Hampshire which had struck a mine near the shore in 1916 and gone down with all but a handful of survivors ; in the Flow we spoke to divers still bringing up steel and copper from the Kaiser 's sunken High Seas Fleet ; and on the island of Lamb Holm on the eastern side we filmed a sequence of the little Catholic chapel , fashioned out of a Nissen hut by Italian prisoners-of-war who had built a causeway linking the islands after Prien 's successful foray in U.47 against the Royal Oak . |
| 24 | At the far side we used Hafpor 's truck to speed-check us , and in the light wind were easily making 45kph . |
| 25 | Now the other side we did n't have one at all , we did , it were just the path down . |
| 26 | They seemed to be doing fine , but just to be on the safe side we gave them another four days to adapt . |
| 27 | In green ties , red epaulettes and blue cummerbunds we lined up ; Marius , who had been chosen as the star recruit , would lead the parade and stand out in front of us as we received our képis . |
| 28 | In all of that time on the continent we did not encounter one set of road works , one traffic jam or one police car . |
| 29 | ‘ After the Doncaster experiment we felt that this was the one element that was missing , ’ explained chief executive Edward Gillespie . |
| 30 | For centuries we had studied the Moon through telescopes and , latterly , from satellites . |