Example sentences of "[that] we [was/were] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They eventually got the message after about 30 minutes that we were not prepared to bribe them with anything and let us through to the Romanian side . |
| 2 | My chief regret in my stay at Transport was that we were not able to do more in combining private and public investment in partnership projects . |
| 3 | Rev Kenneth was determined , now that we were not able to leave the hospital grounds after darkness fell , to see that our minds were not imprisoned . |
| 4 | The excess starters , generators , regulators and anything else that we were n't supposed to have was put on this trailer , was tied neatly to the canvas , we put a man on the tractor and all day long he drove around the perimeter strip with it . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sorry that we were n't able to do more … ’ |
| 6 | Er in fact it was put to me as as an option by Superintendent that this could be , if this could be done er at the time er if I recall one of the reasons erm that we were n't able to do it in such a way was that there are numerous exits to the block of flats and each exit would have had to be covered by at least two armed officers we only only had in the region of twenty five officers available to us at that time in the police who were authorised to be armed and to maintain such a surveillance , erm not only would be very costly in the terms of the number of officers . |
| 7 | ‘ But we kept our shape well and it was unfortunate that we were n't able to nick a second goal . |
| 8 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |
| 9 | After a couple of hours the German lady and I were so choked with emotion that we were scarcely able to speak . |
| 10 | But , in our case , it was the one that we were very keen to get rid of . |