Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] that we [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I decided not to tell my parents what I had discovered : I would just confirm that we were in Tabiano .
2 Now Spike , apart from being an excellent navigator , was also something of an amateur Met man and would quote yards of Pick ( an authority on Met forecasting ) at anyone who would listen , and at first he could not believe that we were in an icing situation .
3 She once joked that we were like ships that passed in the night . ’
4 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 !
5 He knew we were a naval vessel and he also knew that we were in the vicinity . ’
6 Key defender Paul McGrath , set to win his 61st cap , said : ‘ I did n't even know that we were near these records .
7 ‘ But I never dreamed that we were in line for this award , ’ he admitted .
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