Example sentences of "we were near the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon we were near the island . |
| 2 | Then , when we were near the Canary Islands , a Turkish pirate ship came after us . |
| 3 | We were near the top when a man on the left cried aloud . |
| 4 | We were near the edge . |
| 5 | The Secretary of State for Employment sought to protest when my hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield suggested to him that we were near the bottom of the league tables , saying that we should not take too much account of them . |
| 6 | and remembered , I mean when we went to the , get the meat , we were near the shop , we 'd only just got to go down |