Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we thought we would have to lose either the display case or the rebuilt wall — and then an old friend of ours , who happens to be the Emeritus Professor of Suburban Buildings at the University of Lutterworth , visiting one day , told us that these houses never actually had a dividing wall between the front room and the back parlour-so we had to take the whole wall out and remodel the opening in the original style , with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals , which we bought at auction in Fyfe . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The argument continued up the stairs to Downing Street 's reception rooms — where we paused to smile and be photographed — and all the way down again . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Where we got the money to pay for it , I 'm not quite sure . |
| 6 | And there are times , like with Phantom of the Opera , where we got wonderful reviews , so we were laughing and happy . |
| 7 | Andy : ‘ In the same series where we got ‘ Teethgrinder ’ from , there was this American girl who snorted so much cocaine in the ‘ 70s that now , when she breathes in deeply , it sounds like a gust of wind blowing through a haunted house in her head . |
| 8 | And that woman where we got Angela 's dress from , if er Karen 's peach dress does fit her , well at least Karen 's there to be able to go where we got Angela 's dress from . |
| 9 | As it was , our retreat turned out to be much more than that — it was a warm experience where we shared thoughts and feelings with others , and where our static everyday lives were challenged . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At the time , we had also been commissioned by a Hess sheep owner to take a party of shepherds and dogs to North Rona , where we hoped to cull the resident sheep flock , selecting a number for sale in Stornoway . |
| 12 | We eventually got away from the station and camped two hours later near a marsh , where we shot some duck for dinner , and two lily-trotters for our collection . |
| 13 | Where we lived was n't much of a place — there were fourteen families in the one house and as mother 's eyes got worse , less work came in and we had to move into smaller and smaller rooms . |
| 14 | We found a neat village south of Peterlee called Elwick , complete with tree-decked , green , Tabatha Twitchet shop and two super pubs , where we lived uneasily for three years . |
| 15 | ‘ Where … where we lived . |
| 16 | There were no walls lined with books where we lived . |
| 17 | And erm er where we lived it was adjacent to what I call Well . |
| 18 | Accordingly , at the final staging-post , the final farm , within view of the River Vistula , where we lived well and warmly , and there were the heads of children to pat and tousle , and the striped mattress before the fire — we buried our gold . |
| 19 | we are dispossessed , and where we lived |
| 20 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 21 | Eventually we reached the Aru Islands , close to the shores of west New Guinea , where we managed to record the first ever colour footage of the golden-tailed bird in its natural habitat . |
| 22 | He took me to lunch at a discreetly ill-lit restaurant and then to an hotel on the Ile St Louis , where we passed two hours of the afternoon gratifying his fantasies . |
| 23 | The wind has moderated by 2100 hrs so we start Where we left off , completing the job by 0200 hrs the next morning . |
| 24 | Bertie led us down a sloping alleyway to a heavy door where we left our shoes . |
| 25 | If you 've truly got nothing better to do , let's forget the charades and carry on where we left off … eh , my love ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ But Silas , darling — I 've come for us to take up where we left off — ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Is n't this just about where we left off ? ’ |
| 28 | I propose we carry on where we left off , unless you never want to lay eyes on me again , of course . ’ |
| 29 | So we 're more or less where we left off last November . |
| 30 | But then suddenly we got in contact with each other and picked up where we left off . |