Example sentences of "[noun] we [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other Delhi parties we had been to — mostly boring official events — it had been a struggle to avoid getting cornered by some grey under-secretary from the Ministry of Fertilizer Distribution . |
| 2 | The descriptions of them in the books we read are for the most part as unlike the truth as are the descriptions of aristocratic life in the books they read . |
| 3 | We were all working flat out and the only break we had was on the second Sunday when Isvik was on the slip and the Yard closed . |
| 4 | By and large , the war passed us by in Baldersdale , although we had to go through the business of putting black-out curtains at all the windows , even though all the light we had was from oil lamps . |
| 5 | The Whitehall canteens your clubs any restaurants we 've been in … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He presented this as evidence at our investigation on Thursday and the action we took was as a direct consequence . ’ |
| 7 | Ironically , some of the breakthroughs we made were with others from the UK market . |
| 8 | The remaining two-thirds of the sucrose we eat is in " hidden " form , as in chocolate , confectionery , biscuits , cakes , soft drinks , and ice-cream . |
| 9 | However , there seems to be more to the formation of a child 's personality at birth than these two viewpoints — that we are either born as a blank sheet or that the formation we have is via our mother , and begins prior to our birth . |
| 10 | The strongest associations we found were between measures of periodontal disease or oral hygiene and total mortality among men under 50 at baseline ( table IV ) . |
| 11 | One of the worst winters we had was at the start of the war , in 1940 , when the river was frozen over for six weeks right to the end of March and there was two feet of snow . |
| 12 | This girl we know was in Germany and they were doing a PA and she ran up to Richard Fm and said ‘ I 've come all the way from England to see you ’ — which was a complete lie — and she said , ‘ Can I have a signed photo ? ’ |
| 13 | So effectively we take our input pattern we take our tuple we force is through our function here we get our value out sum value of of the tuple and that 's J and that indicates within the weight array that we 're looking at which weight we actually set . |
| 14 | One of the most obvious practical needs we have is to be able to communicate . |
| 15 | Which of these three numbers is the most appropriate depends upon which of the following three statements we think is nearest the truth : |
| 16 | ‘ During the last few weeks we have been to Kent for the filming . |
| 17 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 18 | He mentioned old times , the Army , you know , places we 'd been to . |
| 19 | One of the places we used was in such a state of unrepair that every time it rained we had to put out buckets everywhere just to keep our feet dry . ’ |
| 20 | The old Five Bells we know was of this date and is one of the buildings that can be identified . |
| 21 | Antenor 's were returned to Athens after Alexander 's conquest , and stood beside their successors in Hellenistic and Roman times , but we know that the copies we have are from the second pair because they correspond to sketches on Athenian vases of the fifth century when the others were not available . |
| 22 | I think Americans and Russians find it strange that we are 100% funded by government and over 50% of the cases we bring are against government departments . |
| 23 | In the 23 hours we had been in transit on a scheduled 32-hour flight from London Heathrow , we had become fairly observant . |
| 24 | The artists we met were on the whole very unmotivated and their lack of enthusiasm ( not to mention talent ) rubbed off on us . |
| 25 | Of course we 've been in touch by phone but I wanted to see how things were … |
| 26 | Lot of the calls we get are for like Jackie or Coldwell , they 're not based here |
| 27 | The first case we reported was from West Germany , and the next two from the UK . |
| 28 | So I bought her some fruit pastilles again just while we were waiting for the train , but funnily enough , the last few times we 've been at the station , Bobby |
| 29 | All the bikes we hire are in excellent condition , and we can offer smaller cycles for children . |
| 30 | Another outing we enjoyed was to Mayell 's Chocolate Factory , where for $2 you can tour the factory and eat as many of the products as you want . |