Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] we [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Message from : At the present time we are 140 members less than we were in 1990 — this is solely due to a shortfall in the number of sponsored groups as several classes for the elderly in sheltered homes were closed due to the cut backs . |
| 2 | Obviously if we were in a contracting sector then we would not be doing so well . |
| 3 | ‘ Whatever you think , Dutch Intelligence are convinced they 'll try , and we do n't want to be caught with our trousers down like we were by the Nazis . ’ |
| 4 | But er however things went on and er we , we 've had very bad years some years when the we , stuck too much I think to some of the Morris of course er they had their troubles of course and , and then eventually we , it was funny we were the only two people in the whole of Britain who h ho held the agencies for Austin and Morris together and we were at times we were thinking we must lose one of them . |
| 5 | ‘ When is Derek coming ? ’ asked Lili , perhaps because we were on the subject of husbands . |
| 6 | We did n't see the ball go in because we were on the 9th tee , but we heard hell of a din behind and Tom said , ‘ Some guy must have holed out . ’ |
| 7 | They tried to cloud the issue even further by mixing the question of L M S with the reforms which my group brought in while we were in control of the Council which is in stark contrast to the true situation . |
| 8 | Some weeks beforehand , I think perhaps when we were in Japan , I had read an article that Carl had written in which he said that in the Zurich race in August , when he had trounced Ben , he had not deliberately tried to race anybody but had gone out on to the track to run his own race , do his own thing . |
| 9 | You ca n't expect him to be grateful for things we did together when we were in love — when we were working happily together . |
| 10 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 11 | Only when we were within a few hundred yards of it could we see the waves frothing over and around it , giving just a hint of the menace below . |
| 12 | Well it is , I wrote it down when we were on the list |
| 13 | ‘ Dad Weir used to smoke a pipe , and so when we were in Swansea we went along to one of those hairdresser and tobacconist shops , and there in the window was this great big pipe . |
| 14 | There 's a little tiny bit to tinker with , but it 's not if we were to , we , we 're canvassing at pressed about altering the length of the lunchtime break to break it down from an hour and a half and an hour and a quarter to an hour and a quarter to an hour which is being we would save some money on not paying our |
| 15 | ‘ It was not until we were into the season that the transfer went through and then the price was £2.1m . |
| 16 | But it was not until we were in the playground that they could tackle me . |
| 17 | ‘ At least , not since we were in the Store and believed we came back as garden ornaments , eh ? ’ |
| 18 | Unfortunately , just as we were on the verge of starting an affair , he heard that I had other irons in the fire . ’ |
| 19 | It 's fuckin typical , just when we were on a role , our most important player is out for 6–8 weeks and his next in line is sold . |
| 20 | It was n't how you might think — we did n't want a witness , we did n't want to show off that we were in love ; he was just easy to be with . |
| 21 | Merchant bank SG Warburg said : ‘ We are no better off than we were on Friday . ’ |
| 22 | He said his wife was encouraging him , but that he realized the difficulties of coming back to the Commons and of the years after the election if we were in office or even more if we were in opposition . |
| 23 | For I remember us doing a flipping er a family came to Wyre once and we were on the same old coble we were er doing the flipping and we thought we had nothing to do but take the rope off their heads and push them over the side of the coble onto the side of the small jetty . |
| 24 | We have won two out of four and it should have been more because we were in winning positions at Taunton and Liverpool . ’ |
| 25 | But he 's been keeping the opticians in business — especially the ones that stock really old-fashioned frames — ever since we were at school together . |
| 26 | All the bands who we slagged off when we were in England . ’ |
| 27 | I remember being given some caviar once when we were in Russia — wrapped in newspaper because they had no containers to put it in ! |
| 28 | And yet again my mother used to go with him to deliver ba other babies as you know herself as we as we sort of grew up and we were off her hands . |
| 29 | Oh I 'm just sitting here having had a long , well erm I I 've just had a , a chat with Gillian who erm rang me up and we were on the phone for about half an hour I suppose , she 's some lucky girl ! |
| 30 | We are now back where we were in Elizabeth I 's days : a middle power , making our way in a world dominated by two superpowers , and doing so through intuitive manipulation of balances of power , as we have always done over the centuries . |