Example sentences of "[verb] we [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By all that 's holy , I 'd almost forgotten we were in a place where they sell beer . |
| 2 | So the first man in the smithy in the morning had to pick up a hammer and strike the anvil three times — just to let the old man know we were on the job . |
| 3 | Apart from the odd person coming in who might be dampening down a collar of their leisurewear , looking a touch harassed , you 'd never know we were in the eye of a storm . |
| 4 | I think he was pretending we were in a TV movie . |
| 5 | Stay with that a minute , erm , erm , I mean I would n't have thought we were in a position to give an assurance that er erm , that that no other complaints which appear to be outside the local ombu ombudsman 's restriction will be dealt with by support staff , I mean I should think we 're continuing looking continually looking for ways of dealing with complaints at the most efficient and effective way , and if that |
| 6 | We were sitting on water , going down a great , deep stream , and then I realized we were on a board — like that board in the field — all white and covered with black lines . |
| 7 | And I checked we were on the causeway . |
| 8 | He must have known we were in the doorway . |
| 9 | We all knew we were into an end-of-season of extraordinary interest , despite the fact that Niki conquered Monza in style and Prost again failed to finish . |
| 10 | The difference between the way we saw life as young people — especially the amoral attitude to sex — and the conventional way of portraying it on screen was so great that I knew we were on the verge of a big change . |
| 11 | Everyone knew we were from the prison , they stared at us . |
| 12 | I thought we were in the market for backs rather than midfielders ? |
| 13 | Bloody hell thought we were in the lead Derek , you sure you 're not going backwards ? |
| 14 | And a few years later , when Edwin Hubble found that nearly all other galaxies are flying away from our own , he correctly reasoned that this did not mean we were at the centre of the Universe . |
| 15 | Think we were at the beach would n't you ? |
| 16 | Do we were on a boat , went down to , we came a lot quicker . |
| 17 | ‘ When we were all kids the man who used to teach Joe the violin said we were like a nest of singing birds . |
| 18 | book , she wrote a list out what she wanted , she used to hand it , I remember , I 'd forgotten all about this , let's just say we were at the Co-Op , she 'd hand it in at the counter so the , the groceries counter all , and she 'd written it all out , and when it came back it was , was five minutes , it was all together for you , there it was , it was built up on the counter , and each time the amount was written at the side so |