Example sentences of "we [was/were] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When the lights went out , we were just behind the stage . |
| 2 | We were on remand for about three months and then we were up at the Crown court . |
| 3 | She said , she turned to Mr Fleming and she said , ‘ Darling , do you mind when we were up at the Uni , and that … |
| 4 | Yeah , we er , we won the , the losers trophy twice , we got first round trophy , got knocked out the first round to go to that , me , half , half the decent teams were knocked out in the first round , you know , we were , we were playing sort of , that , that was , nine times out of ten that was the real cup , I mean we , we were up against the league champions once |
| 5 | I was able to take controls of the aircraft when we were up in the sky . |
| 6 | And I was very naughty I , I felt like saying well some of their , they , them are n't er do you remember the very last time we were up in the hospital at the waiting area , there was those two nurses that walked up and down |
| 7 | I wished I 'd had a poke round when we were up by the cliff — he probably had a little cave in there behind the brambles . |
| 8 | We were somewhere near the centre of town . |
| 9 | We were not at a party , he did not go in for brunettes , and I was very much his junior . |
| 10 | We were not at the end . |
| 11 | We know , and they know , that if we were not on the project , in the meeting , or in any way involved , the issue of sexuality would simply be entirely glossed over . |
| 12 | I was rather surprised , as we were not in the habit of writing to each other , and I had had dinner with him the night before . |
| 13 | The Jews hated it but we were not against the Jews . ’ |
| 14 | Cos we used to tie up , we were n't on the water at nighttime . |
| 15 | What they were told was that erm a number of , a a short , short list would be made up , erm , with the possibility of them having a second interview , and they would be told one way or another whether or not they were getting a second interview , because we were n't in a position to say whether we were or were not appointing . |
| 16 | And er and although it nobody could ever say that the union was politically motivated er it it 's strange to relate that at union meeting when the general strike started and we of course we were n't in the T U C we were too small anyway , although I know that there 's been unions with twenty eight members in the T U C now . |
| 17 | Here for the first time he found something of what the pilgrim on his bicycle had sought : ‘ the sense of mystery , and awe , and of another world at once far and near … a sense that we were vividly in the presence of the passion of Jesus and also vividly near to heaven , to which the passion mysteriously belonged , so as to be brought from the past to the present ’ . |
| 18 | We were nearly on the beach and I was looking over the side of the ship . |
| 19 | we were nearly under the table |
| 20 | Again , I guess we were ahead of a lot of other groups because our music was really fast and chop-orientated , without it being fusion-like . |
| 21 | We were nevertheless off the ground in around an estimated 500 metres and the initial rate of climb at 90 knots settled down to around 1100 feet per minute . |
| 22 | Seaman comments that that presentation Another and concordant view is recorded by Lichtheim : Lichtheim goes on to quote Pease , then Secretary of the Fabian Society , as saying : ‘ We were thus in a position to welcome the formation of working class Socialist societies , but it is certain that they would never have welcomed us ’ ; and to add , perhaps unkindly : ‘ Beatrice Potter — a rich , spoiled , arrogant young woman with more beauty than brains — was determined to have as little as possible to do with the working class . ’ |
| 23 | However — the coach screeched to a halt in the station yard and the Guides quickly formed a human chain to move the equipment and some kindly passengers realizing our predicament came to our aid , joining in the chain and we were soon aboard the train heading for London . |
| 24 | The walk-in is easy and we were soon at the foot of the icefall . |
| 25 | ‘ Being quit of this obstruction , we were soon on the Bridge … |
| 26 | We got a call saying we were right on the money last issue with the rumour that DEC will scrap up to 10,000 people on Monday December 7 , Pearl Harbor Day . |
| 27 | We passed through the col , with the main peak of Koitobos towering up to our right , and then suddenly we were right on the edge of the rim with the giant bowl of the crater itself spread out below us . |
| 28 | It was n't we were right against the window , cold backs , I mean we were I was freezing ! |
| 29 | Sailing along quite the thing and we were right down I du n no how far , if we were right in the middle of them or just on the edge of them , but we were not far from them . |
| 30 | And in the evening I looked for them , and then I saw them of course , I knew where they were and I thought quite longly we were right in the front . |