Example sentences of "and we were [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George was earning well and we were to move into a little two-up two-down . |
| 2 | Mornings were frost-blue , breath turned to fog and we were dressed for a cold day in the Himalayas , cocooned in pile clothing and moonboots . |
| 3 | They 'd come up to Hampstead to have coffee and we were to go to the Everyman , but the queue was too long . |
| 4 | It was cloudy enough to require full IFR flight , and we were cleared for the ILS at Vigo , but had to refuse since the VOR/DME there was out of order and there is no additional locator beacon to find the beam . |
| 5 | We were then taken by boat about ten miles to Bone where an armed Army escort awaited us for interrogation and we were kept in a locked room in the barracks . |
| 6 | It was an arduous climb of over a thousand feet , and we were labouring under a midday sun . |
| 7 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 8 | Out on the river , their language was less guarded , and we were treated to a variety of epithets which no Merton man , I hope , would have allowed past his lips in mixed company . |
| 9 | A flock of eight curlew rose and we were treated to a spectacular display flight of steep flapping rises , slow glides and bubbling trills . |
| 10 | We have made visits to actuarial societies in every corner of the globe and received many overseas visitors and we were struck by the similarity of the issues we face . |
| 11 | : My husband was in the Royal Air Force and we were living in a flat in Singapore . |
| 12 | On our first night in France , exhausted after a ferry crossing , we just happened to fetch up in this little village on the Loire , in a hotel on the second floor of a hotel where , indeed , we opened the shutters — and we were looking at the west end of the Romanesque Abbey of St Benoit sur Loire , which is a most striking church where the remains of the saint are interred in a little casket in the crypt . |
| 13 | It came to 5 o'clock and we were getting on the bus to go home , very tired and hungry . |
| 14 | I can remember when the er Going down to the harbour for salt and we were getting from the manufacturer , it was at the time , getting cod liver oil , you know , ready prepared for us which was a quite a saving . |
| 15 | It was a misty Sunday morning and we were bumping along the Ridge Way , near Wantage . |
| 16 | They felt it would be a good idea if they extended these ideas to the subject of physics , and we were asked at the university to try for the very first time to run a set of these master classes for children aged thirteen to fourteen in physics , to see if we could transmit some of the excitement and pleasure of doing physics to children at that crucial stage in their scientific development in schools . |
| 17 | Lay brothers hurried about , unpacking the carts , and we were escorted into the spacious , white stone guest house : a large solar on the ground floor with above it chambers for each of the abbot 's guests . |
| 18 | Our Rolls was directed straight in and we were deposited at the Grand Hall entrance . |
| 19 | ‘ We talked about anything and everything and we were joking with the men working to rescue us , ’ Mr Friend said . |
| 20 | So I did n't really meet Tessa until I went on holiday to America and we were introduced by a mutual friend . |
| 21 | There was no room service and we were breakfasting in the hotel dining-room at a table looking out on to a square adorned by several yuccas and some dusty oleanders . |
| 22 | And by the morning of the next bio-day , Posi had brought the ship 's speed down to Firstlight and we were sliding through the system that contained Vadinamia . |
| 23 | And we were left with a mine there . |
| 24 | But on 19th April the wind began to blow very violently from the west , and we were driven to the east of the Molucca Islands . |
| 25 | A few minutes ' drive and we were taken into a building . |
| 26 | A porter let us in and we were taken into a great yard . |
| 27 | So we were off er after that we were off and landed down in erm Bishop 's Wharf er in the woods there and we , the next morning we were off down to Gosport and we were embarked on the ships there and er landed in Normandy at the beach it was . |
| 28 | When it was time to set off again , there was a lot of noisy discussion , live chickens in baskets were moved and we were ushered into the front window seat across from the driver so we could see the view together . |
| 29 | I remember arriving at public school , and we were ushered into the housemaster 's study , and he said , ‘ Well , sex is a thorny subject . |
| 30 | And we were standing on the end of the house and I thought I had nothing to tie that down with but there were concrete blocks there I had a pile of those in the corner and well it took the whole blooming thing . |