Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] [be] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There will be a storm before long , ’ Michael said , ‘ we 'd best be in the Tower . ’ |
| 2 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 3 | The last time we worked together was in Prague , late Spring of ‘ 68 … just before the Czechoslovakian balloon went up . |
| 4 | We had also been in touch with him indirectly through learning early in the year that he and John Hayward were needing a housekeeper . |
| 5 | Twenty-four hours earlier , we had both been in Paris . |
| 6 | The amazing thing to us was that we had both been in the Air Force for years , but had n't met until the war was over . |
| 7 | It is not the hardest peak in the Alps but it is one of the classics , and we had done it , though we had only been in the area a couple of days and had still been acclimatising . |
| 8 | We had now been in the village for nearly five weeks , and the atmosphere was heating up considerably . |
| 9 | We had all been in Hawaii with Youth With A Mission ( YWAM ) taking part in the Crossroads Discipleship Training School , YWAM 's basic entry course for full time workers . |