Example sentences of "we [vb past] [be] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 's , that 's all the all what we got is in there . |
| 2 | One of the places we used was in such a state of unrepair that every time it rained we had to put out buckets everywhere just to keep our feet dry . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We 'd been in my room — Ronny 'd gone out , he always does between shows . |
| 4 | We 'd been in our first house for just over five years , and I 'd served my d-i-y apprenticeship then , improving slightly as each room was restored and decorated . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , years and years ago , after we 'd been in Italy a matter of fifteen months or so . ’ |
| 6 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 7 | We 'd been in make-up and when we were n't called he said , ‘ Right , Dennis , open the bar . ’ |
| 8 | Germon said , ‘ Obviously we 'd have wanted to get back to continue if we 'd been in ( ND skipper ) David White 's shoes . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There were one night the door and we 'd been in quarantine you know for th that three weeks . |
| 12 | And whereas , if we 'd been in the Lake District we 'd have got a tan , so it just depends . |
| 13 | So by the end of the day , we 'd met Sam , we knew her , we 'd been in her house , we 'd looked around her house . |
| 14 | Now why I mean do you think it matters that these things are so that these things are so , that these things which we thought were in , you know private to you , and not available to other people so easily , why do you think it matters that they actually are apparently in return for mo payment , are available to anyone ? |
| 15 | The Billeting Office found us accommodation , but no one appeared to be responsible for us otherwise , though I expect we could have gone to our administrative chief Harold Fletcher , if we had been in any serious trouble . |
| 16 | Simultaneously we had been in touch with Sir Hubert and had discovered that he did indeed give an interview to the representative in London and had spoken ‘ off the cuff ’ to quite an extent but not justifying the outright statement attributed to him . |
| 17 | But he was not discontented now : we had been in Fe– two days and he was airing his local knowledge to impress Flora , who had just arrived . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We returned to Makassar from the Toraja highlands with dangerously diminished funds , realizing that we had been in Celebes for two months and that the chances of finding a prahu which could carry us the nearly two thousand miles to the Aru Islands were remote . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We were in precisely the same place that we had been in three dawns previously ! |
| 22 | When we had been in Manchester only a week , a week of arduous rehearsals and long hours , Vicky could keep little food down and , frantic with worry for her , I urged her to go home now . |
| 23 | In the 23 hours we had been in transit on a scheduled 32-hour flight from London Heathrow , we had become fairly observant . |
| 24 | 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 . |