Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] we had been " in BNC.

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1 I realized , however , that to do so after we had been deprived of half our rifles and whatever security the protection of the Government afforded us would be to invite almost certain massacre .
2 Exactly where we had been swimming that morning .
3 When he finally left the bikes , he ambled down to the stream just where we had been and sat in the water to cool off .
4 Outwardly , I criticised them as much as anybody , feeling more than pissed off that we had been hit on their account .
5 I knew the face and knew at once that we had been intimate , but I had no idea who she was .
6 When I found out that we had been placed next to each other in class with all my friends around I went , ‘ Oh no , I 'm sitting next to Grant ’ .
7 Now that we had been here for nearly seven weeks , we were beginning to wonder if the final climax would ever take place at all .
8 While the recovery is a little bit slower that we had been anticipating when I left GM Europe , it 's not very much different than what we had expected .
9 We would n't have found it difficult to reconstruct the exchange even if we had been too far away to hear what was said .
10 I remembered being in the weight-training room with two club-mates , Trevor Wade and Clifford Mamba , a few weeks earlier and we had been discussing sprinting .
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