Example sentences of "we [was/were] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constanza never had a penny of her own , we were Anna 's dependants you might say , well , we never felt it , she never made us feel it . |
| 2 | Ever since the days when we were creatures of one world . ’ |
| 3 | We were daitlers we worked on the In the stone , you see ? |
| 4 | ‘ When we were boys — Nara 's age — the king arrived in the valley with his hunting party in seven helicopters . |
| 5 | I 've known him most of my life , since we were boys . |
| 6 | Many years ago , when we were boys . |
| 7 | " When we were boys , we wanted to be like our fathers . |
| 8 | He was reluctant but it came in the end : ‘ I 've been thinking ; if Alfie really was coming here it 's possible he would have taken the short cut like we did when we were boys . |
| 9 | I dare n't disobey her , Miss Abbott — dare I , Aunt ? — because you see , my brother and I have been in her care since we were boys and stand in the greatest awe of her imaginable . ’ |
| 10 | We used to go sailing on the estuary when we were boys . |
| 11 | We were conspirators in a delicious plot and we sat together and sucked our sweets . |
| 12 | ‘ We were friends a long time ago , during the war . ’ |
| 13 | But although we were friends , it was strictly business out there . |
| 14 | We were friends , but we ‘ scooped ’ each other whenever and however we could , claiming all to be fair in love and inter-city journalism . |
| 15 | ‘ I said we were friends . |
| 16 | We were friends but it is a pity he did not make that clear . ’ |
| 17 | God alone knew why we wanted to sail to New Zealand together , except that in a strange way we were friends . |
| 18 | But for the moment we were friends who had to prepare Wavebreaker for a possible Atlantic crossing . |
| 19 | Flora might think we were friends . |
| 20 | In public , there and then — shook hands , apologised , excused his stupidity and we were friends . ’ |
| 21 | We were friends . |
| 22 | ‘ We were friends , that 's all . |
| 23 | And we were friends . |
| 24 | He called me a usurer , which was the first time I 'd heard the word , paid me back £1.20 after four weeks , paraded at weekends in his new shirt , and we were friends thereafter . |
| 25 | Nigel would pretend to patronise me , and I would pretend I was n't clever enough to notice ; and he would be swankier than he really was , and I would be more boring ; but we knew what we were doing and we were friends . |
| 26 | In the newsroom , we were friends on and off the screen . |
| 27 | We were friends , never lovers . |
| 28 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 29 | But all that time we were friends . |
| 30 | We were friends from that day , until the day he died . |