Example sentences of "[vb past] we [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'll recall that the cheque you paid us was for a chest which we made for your cousin . |
| 2 | The cap they showed us was for an elephant , a massive thing . |
| 3 | We were sitting on water , going down a great , deep stream , and then I realized we were on a board — like that board in the field — all white and covered with black lines . |
| 4 | Then we realised we were in the WRONG parade . |
| 5 | And I checked we were on the causeway . |
| 6 | Gary player and Henry Cotton were two strokes behind us and the boss and I decided we were among the right sort of company . |
| 7 | We all knew we were into an end-of-season of extraordinary interest , despite the fact that Niki conquered Monza in style and Prost again failed to finish . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Everyone knew we were from the prison , they stared at us . |
| 10 | ‘ I knew we was onto a good 'un when we comes to Sinkport , but I never guessed as the old scallywag 'imself 'ud be 'ere . |
| 11 | But what we 'll do is take it there early in the morning , we 'll get he back the bus back to Liverpool , we 'll go to the pier head and we 'll go on the ferry to New Brighton and there was me prattling all on at him and the next thing er , you di , we did n't know that , we thought we were on the main right of way street and your dad started to go across and I looked , your dad was driving , I was sitting beside him and coming towards us along this other road , which had the right of way but we did n't know was a little black mini , I was a ergh , ergh oh Harry , Harry ! |
| 12 | I thought we were in the market for backs rather than midfielders ? |
| 13 | Bloody hell thought we were in the lead Derek , you sure you 're not going backwards ? |
| 14 | I could hardly credit it when Carole said we were on a cushy number ; she 'd spent whole days hacking down rhododendrons and that was really back-breaking work . |
| 15 | ‘ When we were all kids the man who used to teach Joe the violin said we were like a nest of singing birds . |