Example sentences of "but we [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , we did n't see it , but we were on the scene soon afterwards . |
| 2 | With only 32 horse power available I had expected a considerably longer ground , but we were off the ground in about 150 metres , although from then on acceleration and climb were adequate rather than startling . |
| 3 | But we were without a first officer . |
| 4 | We were not merely ready to welcome strange things when we had walked half a mile up a lane and met no man , but we were in a gracious condition for receiving whatever might fall to us . |
| 5 | It was an Arab strike but we were in a safe area . |
| 6 | But we were in a dungeon in Lebanon and he was in a safe house in the Home Counties . |
| 7 | By most standards this was a peculiarly non-threatening document but we were in the middle of a general election . |
| 8 | But we were in an apartment , not a prison . |