Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] we [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between the way we saw life as young people — especially the amoral attitude to sex — and the conventional way of portraying it on screen was so great that I knew we were on the verge of a big change . |
| 2 | On the Lineker transfer , quoting from Mr Sugar 's sworn statement , Mr Mann said : ‘ Another example of Mr Venables ’ so called mastery of the transfer system was when I realised Tottenham were only receiving £850,000 for Lineker , as opposed to the £4m that I understood we were to get . |
| 3 | And by that I was looking at er things like discussing with Alan that I felt we were un under , had , had less management time than we should . |
| 4 | Claire is Anne 's sister , so I suppose we were with family even at some remove ( ie Val 's cousin 's wife 's sister ! ) . |
| 5 | We were much better ‘ staffed ’ this time so I think we were more efficient and our pilfering/loss rate which I felt had not been bad last time was down to only two items this time , even better . |
| 6 | But once I think we were , we were going in a mad rush er , each saw his responsibilities for that word , and that 'll do , and then we 'd say yes , and stuck it here . |
| 7 | Southgate declared , ‘ Yes , this is the spot , ’ and I realised we were going witch-hunting . |
| 8 | This was our second day in Normandy and I believed we were getting used to it . |
| 9 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
| 10 | We played magnificently and I thought we were the better side . ’ |
| 11 | And I checked we were on the causeway . |
| 12 | ‘ And I said we were to stop , um , putting people on watch , did n't I ? |
| 13 | Off you go , ’ and I gathered we were to go back to the beginning and start again . |
| 14 | And I knew we were bound , whatever happened , bound to one another . |
| 15 | ‘ By the time I went to Devonshire I knew that there was a real hound , and I knew we were looking for a man and a woman . |
| 16 | While Kermit and I talked we were joined by Bill Ross , warbird owner and a past President of the Warbirds of America organisation . |
| 17 | Er I was in the credit and I was with a large group of people there and they seemed very happy and I think we were fair , we 'd got good conditions . |
| 18 | And I think we were going , first of all it was a firm Polytechnic Tours in London . |
| 19 | And I think we were all slightly sort of surprised that we could have this sort of effect . |
| 20 | But f***ing Newcastle … we did n't get this much parise our first season back … and I think we were doing as well as they are . |
| 21 | Got to the other end and I think we were unloading in about an hour and a half or so . |
| 22 | We bore left , and I found we were in t |
| 23 | Gary player and Henry Cotton were two strokes behind us and the boss and I decided we were among the right sort of company . |
| 24 | By now it was early afternoon and Rick ( who had been catching consistently on the corn ) and I decided we were getting peckish , so , being nominated ’ chef of the week ’ I had to sort out the dinner . |
| 25 | but if I thought we were coming back , I 'd get myself a little car . |
| 26 | In a recent interview with this newspaper , Mr McCormick said : ‘ I would be the first to complain if I felt we were n't getting a fair crack of the whip . ’ |
| 27 | I knew — it sounds corny — but I knew we were meant to be , that we were simpático . ’ |
| 28 | His slides were good and his descriptions fairly accurate , but I sensed we were all glad to get back to the comfort of the hotel and I to my electric fire . |
| 29 | but I mean we were n't broad . |
| 30 | I do n't know who it was , but I know we were being tailed . |