Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There will be a storm before long , ’ Michael said , ‘ we 'd best be in the Tower . ’ |
| 2 | I mean , alright a few mad things happened and everything and when I came home I was whacked because we 'd just been on a big adventure theme park for a month . |
| 3 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 4 | Well , it was n't till the Tuesday of the week after when we 'd all been to the funeral at the crematorium that Inspector Bush came in again . |
| 5 | The first time we went out was to the pictures and we did n't say a word to each other all night . |
| 6 | Others can make a judgement that you should be spending less than that , and in fact the first budget we presented yesterday was at the level of three hundred and eleven point five million , which is further below the capped level . |
| 7 | Finding a lone man amid open ocean is doubtful at the best of times , and we had just been through the densest fog bank either one of us had ever experienced . |
| 8 | The amazing thing to us was that we had both been in the Air Force for years , but had n't met until the war was over . |
| 9 | It is not the hardest peak in the Alps but it is one of the classics , and we had done it , though we had only been in the area a couple of days and had still been acclimatising . |
| 10 | We had now been in the village for nearly five weeks , and the atmosphere was heating up considerably . |
| 11 | ( One of the few times we missed out was with a 200lb sturgeon caught in the North Sea . |