Example sentences of "we [vb past] be [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last time we met was at the Training Centre at Achnacarry . |
| 2 | The artists we met were on the whole very unmotivated and their lack of enthusiasm ( not to mention talent ) rubbed off on us . |
| 3 | We 'd been on the bit of fast dual carriageway between Dumbarton and Alexandria , not long after Verity and Lewis had picked me up . |
| 4 | Yeah er cover was the one that , after we 'd been through the document , I did find of be of particular interest |
| 5 | We 'd been to a party with Nancy and Frank . |
| 6 | I remember wandering with Donald somewhere in the East End after we 'd been to the Whitechapel and we saw a group of teddies standing round two middle-aged Indians . |
| 7 | Several of them enquired if we 'd been to the races ( we all had ) and had backed the winner ( no , we had n't ) . |
| 8 | That evening , Abu Salim came to chain Brian and me up after we 'd been to the bathroom . |
| 9 | We 'd hoped that such irritations were behind us , but then they started taking toothpaste and soap away from us after we 'd been to the bathroom . |
| 10 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 11 | And whereas , if we 'd been in the Lake District we 'd have got a tan , so it just depends . |
| 12 | But initially there had to be a real , genuine erm working class revolution and therefore Marx looked first to England because we were the most advanced and we 'd been in the business of running capitalism for s so much longer than any other country in the world . |
| 13 | The only gunfire we heard was from the army rifle range across the hill , and sometimes they would bring tanks up on big wagons so they could practice on the moor . |
| 14 | Before it was built we were very much under stress , because the church where we recorded was on a flight-path into Berlin , so we sometimes had to stop and re-record a passage five or six times before we got it right . |
| 15 | When I worked er for in the mid eighties , we had been through a period where we 'd always taken the cheapest tender . |
| 16 | Quite normal duties for a revenue cutter , but there was nothing normal about that particular week we spent in Ullapool at the end of which we all felt as though we had been through a wringer . |
| 17 | We had been at the wedding a full hour before I began to be curious about the whereabouts of the bride and groom . |
| 18 | At Canjuers we had been on the shooting range one afternoon , zeroing our FA-MASs on targets 200 metres away . |
| 19 | ‘ We had been to the pub down the road and were walking towards the crossing when we saw the train was coming , ‘ she said . |
| 20 | ‘ We had been to the pub and as we walked along a well-lit walkway this man came towards us . |
| 21 | We had been outside the village of El Ouata — we would have been inside but for him . |
| 22 | Earlier that day we had been in the yard of a house near the front line , among groves of frost-damaged mandarins , where a unit of some 50 Georgians was preparing to ‘ clean ’ a group of Abkhazians ( or Russians , as the Georgians claimed ) from their side of the river . |
| 23 | Although we had been in the land of constant daylight for several days , the sun had been hidden for much of the time by high cloud . |
| 24 | Wherever we had been in the Celebes lowlands people would call out to us , " Hello , mister ! " — but in Bira it was always " Hello , Inggeriss ! " which we assumed was simply because news of our true nationality had got around . |
| 25 | So that was nineteen eighty two , the first one we had was at the end of nineteen eighty four , which was at . |
| 26 | One of the worst winters we had was at the start of the war , in 1940 , when the river was frozen over for six weeks right to the end of March and there was two feet of snow . |
| 27 | None of us had been outside the camp for many months and every field seemed infinite and exciting . |