Example sentences of "[noun] we [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I remember during some very intensive rehearsals we were doing for the Ring we came to a passage where the figuration of the accompaniment always comes out too strongly . |
| 3 | Certain of the retailing organizations we spoke to mentioned a smaller , shorter peak at around Easter and many also hired temporary workers for a month or two over the summer to fill in for regular staff who were taking vacations . |
| 4 | As Bourn did not boast an anemometer we had to quickly learn wind speed by other means , such as how much or how little the trees were bending in the wind and whether the distant windsock was at full stretch or hanging limply from its staff . |
| 5 | How did you get on that Friday we went to Chester ? |
| 6 | It was mostly the village pub at Bourn we went to , or the similar one at Great Gransden , where we would sit in front of the fire and have a few drinks , and Henry would try to get Rosemary into a corner . |
| 7 | One particular incident which sticks in my mind which brought home to me how ill he was occurred when my mother sent me one morning to ask my father what he wanted for breakfast , to which he replied in a very vague and confused manner " hen mush " ( the term we gave to the vegetable matter we cooked up for the chickens ) . |
| 8 | Relieved of the weight of the food in our panniers we returned to Fontanellato , where the latest news was not too good . |
| 9 | The wedding we went to , was it two years ago now ? |
| 10 | They , and the schools we went to , helped preserve a brown Fifties environment all through our early years . |
| 11 | The responses we received to the consultation document were considered carefully and my officials discussed the issues raised with the auditing practices board and with other interested parties in the regulated sectors . |
| 12 | After lunch we retired to the drawing-room where the camera crew had already set up , and I sat on one sofa and he on another . |
| 13 | And if we can afford to send him to Bishop Challener or wherever then I mean if we ca n't , thing is at Bishop Challener we wanted to ge- reserve a place now and just pay fifty pounds . |
| 14 | To go back to the Gdynia one on the ninth of October nineteen forty three , I have to state that when our crew arrived in England we went to er through school at Bovingdon for a couple of weeks then we were assigned to the Ninety Second Bomb Group and they wan na be sure we fit in . |
| 15 | The common message , from many of the women or members of ethnic communities we spoke to , was , their need to be seen on the television screen or heard on the radio . |
| 16 | None of the companies we spoke to would forecast how many cars they aim to sell in 1993 , nor how many customers who would previously have bought kits are expected to switch to type-approved cars . |
| 17 | The rest of the band were not available for comment , but all the record companies we spoke to assured us that they had enough new material from Various to see us well into the next century . |
| 18 | The rest of the band were not available for comment , but all the record companies we spoke to assured us that they had enough new material from Various to see us well into the next century . |
| 19 | ‘ Dear me , when I was a child we went to church twice every Sunday . |
| 20 | At Engineers ' Hall we listened to experts like D. A. D. Reeve , chief executive of the Severn Trent Water Authority , D. Gaulter , director general of the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors , and W. T. Devenay , director of water , Strathclyde Regional Council . |
| 21 | After Nairobi we moved to the south of Kenya to Mombasa on the coast , a predominantly Muslim area . |
| 22 | We stopped at the first bar we came to and walked inside , to where Johnson and Fleming , two English legionnaires , were drinking . |
| 23 | At home we listened to the official news , which we knew was full of propaganda . |
| 24 | ‘ Why , she 's the girl we waved to just now ! ’ cried one of the Brownies , gazing hard at Brenda |
| 25 | When I was a girl we moved to Swindon . |
| 26 | Starting from the clubhouse on the first day and walking along the edge of the wood we came to a piece of natural grassland studded with patches of purpose tufted vetch and orchids growing among the unmown grass . |
| 27 | Accordingly we can ask its supporters the same question we addressed to our friends from Copenhagen . |
| 28 | And who was the youngest FA Cup final referee , a question we repeated to Referees Association president Peter Willis who handled the 1985 final . |
| 29 | So instead of ringing each other up on the telephone we spoke to each other over the C.B. as you do n't have to pay each time you speak as when you speak on a C.B. your words travel with Radio waves and when you speak on a telephone your words travel down wires . |
| 30 | With John Cocks cursing the fact that he had not brought his tripod and frustrated by the lack of lighting equipment we had to content ourselves with lunch sans photography . |