Example sentences of "we [pers pn] [was/were] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Er but we we was n't sure for North Wales that it 's the type !
2 We used to split the quarter into eight but we we it was too fiddly .
3 ‘ You should have told us you were so eager to go to the town . ’
4 Now that there were just two of us we were often left unchained for most of the day , certainly from breakfast to lunch-time .
5 He said : ‘ The police have told us he was very reluctant to go at first .
6 His wonderful book shows the number of new birds ( his wife painted them ) he found in Australia , and when with us he was much pleased with a white kangaroo-skin he preserved , the first I had ever seen . ’
7 Lib-Dem candidate Chris Abbott tells us it was very good of the printer but we are unable to reproduce what he himself says .
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