Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We proceeded from the old bay at Caraven Arms used by the BC Railway and walked by road to the site of the old Strettford Bridge Junction , where we took to the old track bed as far as Glen Burrell Bridge , where we joined the road again , calling in on the Rev. Ray Arnold at Horderley , who was waiting with coffee and biscuits . |
| 2 | We also had a polyester business where we had to both change the technology and the products if we were to win . |
| 3 | But we do say that its object [ has ] been gained , and that after all the stir and excitement , the inconvenience … we are back where we wished to be , and with the miners ' case under negotiation . |
| 4 | But , that where we went to that pub that time with Geoff , that 's the first time I 've been up there . |
| 5 | Maybe we should have solved our problems more quickly ( of course in a perfect world everyone always should ) , but better by far to have gone on and on , testing , probing , questioning and changing , until we finally had a solution which worked and could take us where we wanted to be . |
| 6 | We also spent time in the capital , Guatemala City , where we talked to senior government officials like the defence minister , General Jose Garcia Samayoa . |
| 7 | They took us to the airport , where we flew to Peking via Hangchow . |
| 8 | We were then posted to 406 Sqn RCAF where we converted to Beaufighters . |
| 9 | Yet , although we condescended to those around , middle-class people were n't enthusiastic about us . |
| 10 | For example , we walk less than we used to as most families have cars and the launderette or the washing machine has replaced the scrubbing board . |
| 11 | Even though forest lumped the ball in the air to rosario more than we did to chapman when we last played them . |
| 12 | That 's right , yeah , yeah Yes our first tour was five , it was supposed to be four , but , we erm , er for some reason or other we did n't really want to come home , ha four , so we stretched to three |
| 13 | Our elder daughter , a budding journalist , had her birthday a few days after Easter Day , so we seemed to be stuffed with Simnel cake and birthday cake and chocolate eggs . |
| 14 | We had a car , an English Rover , so we drove to the southern part of the city . |
| 15 | So I decided the first thing we had to do was define the difference between lead gear and bass gear , so we had to completely change the look . |
| 16 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 17 | ‘ So we came to Cochabamba . |
| 18 | His student visa is only valid as long as he 's enrolled at a school , so we went to Clive and tried to get him expelled . |
| 19 | We were all starvin' , Chief , so we went to this canteen . |
| 20 | ‘ So we went to the railway police . ’ |
| 21 | Erm so by about nine o'clock we absolutely knackered so we went to bed . |
| 22 | I thought , oh dear , so we got to bed by this time , and we lay , and we just could n't get to sleep for the noise the tent was making . |
| 23 | he brought us straight back here , so we got to the door , I says well how much did he say ? |
| 24 | Thereafter , however , things became more difficult , so we took to having one of my research students living with us . |
| 25 | Such things happen , so we tried to be philosophical . |
| 26 | ‘ Once we got to the hospital I could feel her head and it was the first moment it all became real for me . |
| 27 | Once we got to Heathrow airport I was able to get out of the car and stretch my legs as on travelling down to London I had fallen asleep with my knees on the floor and my head on the seat . |
| 28 | Once we got to sorted , I 'm gon na take her . |
| 29 | Once we went to a fish stall and he bought 30 crab sticks for 20p each . |
| 30 | Cos we said to him the other day how much is so and so Jonathan ? |