Example sentences of "[prep] we [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er we were coming out of We were getting the tub out an and er me brother was at the front end of th It went off the rails and er as he pushed it back , I was at the back and it jammed me again the face , and broke this collar bone . |
| 2 | It 's a question of we were told always to be brief , it has to be brief , you ca n't say everything . |
| 3 | The sky to the east of us was lit up like noon-day . |
| 4 | ‘ But I understood that it had been arranged that one of us was to go into each room . ’ |
| 5 | Each one of us was beckoned over to have a go when it was my turn I rushed over and put the tanks on I then submerged It felt strange breathing under water like a fish the bubble emitted from the regulator trickled up the side of my face . |
| 6 | Be before you were chosen by whatever process a number of us was asked to comment and one of the things I felt it important to say was that the URC plays a very important role both in being a bridge between all these nations but also serving a particular reform tradition within Wales . |
| 7 | By far the hardest adjustment for both of us was accepting the reversal of authority . |
| 8 | The importance attached to maintaining a job share position in our practice is such that one of us was appointed only weeks before going on maternity leave . |
| 9 | Trying to pull us both up short she started on a lecture on the foetal damage caused by nicotine , but neither of us was listening ; we were looking at a memory . |
| 10 | ‘ Each of us was complaining about the spies ’ equipment with which we had both been issued . |
| 11 | That grandfather died before any of us was born . |
| 12 | He 's got to be correct , he 's got to do whatever was ‘ right ’ and ‘ nice ’ before either of us was born . |
| 13 | ‘ That was the trouble , ’ Ven cut in , ‘ neither of us was thinking . |
| 14 | Each one of us was given a chess board complete with chess men made entirely of sweetmeats . |
| 15 | Every policeman was given a pint mug and on night duty we were , have n't , we , each of us was given one pint of coffee . |
| 16 | The seat in front of us was occupied by a blind man , Mr. Shergold , who lived in Love Lane . |
| 17 | I was greatly attracted to Georgia , and was able to enjoy her company at several film shows or at dinners on evenings when neither of us was working . |
| 18 | Each of us was encouraged to try out solutions on the board and you would ask other class members what they thought and whether they had anything to contribute as an alternative . |
| 19 | He knew we could n't abide his ways , and he was sure one of us was going to take a hack at him , so he begged for the honour of being killed by the enemy instead . ’ |
| 20 | None of us was hurt badly . |
| 21 | For a short while , neither of us was allowed to drive , and that was the first time I 've known Michael to be really downhearted . |
| 22 | Hundreds of us were isolated from each other . |
| 23 | Neither of us were thinking too deeply . |
| 24 | The three of us were scaling an almost vertical face . |
| 25 | During my first year as a prisoner some of us were moved for a time from Silesia to a camp in the Polish corridor . |
| 26 | Whilst the rest of us were copying down the maths work . |
| 27 | Almost all of us were trying to catch up on our homework , although the tram was much too bumpy for anyone to write anything . |
| 28 | The rest of us were herded all together in the room opposite . |
| 29 | Most of us were taught the wisdom of saving regularly , which brings us to one of the most sensible ways of investing — the unit trust monthly saving scheme , and best of all through a personal equity plan . |
| 30 | One or two of us were destined to have problems . |