Example sentences of "we [vb past] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last time we met was at the Training Centre at Achnacarry . |
| 2 | The artists we met were on the whole very unmotivated and their lack of enthusiasm ( not to mention talent ) rubbed off on us . |
| 3 | We 'd been on the bit of fast dual carriageway between Dumbarton and Alexandria , not long after Verity and Lewis had picked me up . |
| 4 | Yeah er cover was the one that , after we 'd been through the document , I did find of be of particular interest |
| 5 | Several of them enquired if we 'd been to the races ( we all had ) and had backed the winner ( no , we had n't ) . |
| 6 | That evening , Abu Salim came to chain Brian and me up after we 'd been to the bathroom . |
| 7 | We 'd hoped that such irritations were behind us , but then they started taking toothpaste and soap away from us after we 'd been to the bathroom . |
| 8 | I remember wandering with Donald somewhere in the East End after we 'd been to the Whitechapel and we saw a group of teddies standing round two middle-aged Indians . |
| 9 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 10 | We 'd been in the same form for two terms without really speaking because we had separate friends and in any case at St Edward 's you were seated according to your exam results at the end of the previous term , so it was n't likely we 'd be close . |
| 11 | But initially there had to be a real , genuine erm working class revolution and therefore Marx looked first to England because we were the most advanced and we 'd been in the business of running capitalism for s so much longer than any other country in the world . |
| 12 | And whereas , if we 'd been in the Lake District we 'd have got a tan , so it just depends . |
| 13 | The only gunfire we heard was from the army rifle range across the hill , and sometimes they would bring tanks up on big wagons so they could practice on the moor . |
| 14 | Everything we did was of the very lightest weight however heavy the humour . |
| 15 | We had been at the wedding a full hour before I began to be curious about the whereabouts of the bride and groom . |
| 16 | At Canjuers we had been on the shooting range one afternoon , zeroing our FA-MASs on targets 200 metres away . |
| 17 | While we had been on the opposite bank a new barge had come upriver from the direction of Minya and had moored near the end of the Corniche . |
| 18 | ‘ We had been to the pub down the road and were walking towards the crossing when we saw the train was coming , ‘ she said . |
| 19 | ‘ We had been to the pub and as we walked along a well-lit walkway this man came towards us . |
| 20 | We had been outside the village of El Ouata — we would have been inside but for him . |
| 21 | Although we had been in the land of constant daylight for several days , the sun had been hidden for much of the time by high cloud . |
| 22 | Wherever we had been in the Celebes lowlands people would call out to us , " Hello , mister ! " — but in Bira it was always " Hello , Inggeriss ! " which we assumed was simply because news of our true nationality had got around . |
| 23 | Earlier that day we had been in the yard of a house near the front line , among groves of frost-damaged mandarins , where a unit of some 50 Georgians was preparing to ‘ clean ’ a group of Abkhazians ( or Russians , as the Georgians claimed ) from their side of the river . |
| 24 | The only dangerous time we had was on the way back when we were trying to get away from the coast of Iceland and a whole series of fronts were driving us back into the coast . |
| 25 | We were all working flat out and the only break we had was on the second Sunday when Isvik was on the slip and the Yard closed . |
| 26 | Yes , they 're just putting , well th th most erm useful erm conversation we had was with the , the ophthalmologist , she was , she was superb erm and advised us to get it done as soon as possible . |
| 27 | One of the worst winters we had was at the start of the war , in 1940 , when the river was frozen over for six weeks right to the end of March and there was two feet of snow . |
| 28 | So that was nineteen eighty two , the first one we had was at the end of nineteen eighty four , which was at . |