Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] we were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time the " All Clear " sounded and there was a certain amount of light by which I could plainly see I was in what appeared to be an MT parking lot , When the rear gunner returned he reported that we were in the Manston MT yard . |
| 2 | This time last year , most of us believed that we were on the threshold of a new era of peace and co-operation in international affairs . |
| 3 | We have thought that we were on the brink of the final synthesis at least twice before . |
| 4 | and there was a lot of waste , but these new tables did bring that , it was something for the company it was more than anything , you know cos we were on the bonus system . |
| 5 | Well I seem to recall that we were in the place |
| 6 | Young people whom we knew to be honest , stung as we were by the sufferings of our Fatherland , lived convinced that Cuba 's independence was a Yankee gift and that our denunciations of national oppression were simply ways of serving an idea that they considered to be ‘ anti-Cuban ’ ( ‘ Reflexiones ante un aniversario ’ , Hoy , 29 July 1959 , p. 1 , cited in Farber : 1983 , p. 61 ) . |
| 7 | He went on : ‘ Looking back , the fact that we were the first to say Thatcher should go over the Lawson affair meant that we were in the game . |
| 8 | On one occasion , he told the guests , ‘ you might have believed that we were on the verge of adding 3,500 redundancies to the total of Scottish unemployed . |
| 9 | He knew we were a naval vessel and he also knew that we were in the vicinity . ’ |
| 10 | However , the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) asserted that we were at the bottom of the league . |
| 11 | So we swapped addresses with er , ca n't remember , it was a man middle-aged sort of man and er he then said ooh , well he said I still think that we were in the right in as much as if that policeman was supposed to have been directing traffic blah blah blah blah blah ! |
| 12 | And that could have happened when we were in the workhouse . |
| 13 | Well David said that we were at the end , everyone believed that they were that the time has come that we was at the end of the world . |
| 14 | Murphy waited until we were in the Polo Lounge to break the bad news . |
| 15 | ‘ On the brighter side , the value of our players would increase if we were in the Second Division . |
| 16 | There was need on Ewan Beg to be silent and row till we were through the narrows , but he had time after that . |
| 17 | I 've gone to bed many and many a time — and I was only sixteen — I 've gone to bed many a time and laid on the bed and fell off to sleep before I was undressed because we were on the go the whole time . |