Example sentences of "was [prep] [noun] [conj] we [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was past midnight and we shivered through to dawn in guilty contemplation of our good fortune . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought it was like London when we sat in the cinema ’ , she went on . |
| 3 | Jim Oulton , GMB branch secretary , said : ‘ We knew the company was in difficulty but we did not think things were this bad or the cuts would be of this magnitude . ’ |
| 4 | I remember well , during the air-raids of the forties when I was in London and we waited as darkness came for the first sirens and the deep breath to get one 's courage up , that we felt we were part of the will of the capital of England . |
| 5 | I enjoyed the work there — dealing with customers on the phone — there were two of us girls … the other girl was in charge and we had a man over us , but it was between us two … we had to get all the statements out at the end of the month … |
| 6 | I got a letter to say dad was in hospital and we had a buzz bomb and it was n't too bad and er do n't worry . |
| 7 | By then Adolf Hitler was in power and we heard all sorts . |
| 8 | It was from Magda that we heard early in September that a British Sunday newspaper had reported that an Iranian with close links to Hezbollah had said in Beirut that I was to be released immediately . |
| 9 | Er he was from Gedling but we lived together in the army barracks at that particular time . |
| 10 | No one was at home when we came out of school so we did n't have to explain where we were going . |
| 11 | The only available slipway that could take Venturous was at Stornoway and we made arrangements to call there for repairs . |
| 12 | It would have to be when I was at school and we broke into the tuck shop . |
| 13 | Yeah but th there was a turn off and I did n't know whether the turn off was at Cardiff and we went past it . |
| 14 | ‘ Most of the work in those days was by ladder and we used a bosun 's chair for the high buildings — something definitely banned today . ’ |