Example sentences of "we [was/were] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The day before we arrived in Gibraltar we received a signal from Admiral Sir James Somerville of Force ‘ H ’ who was in command of the operation , saying that on arrival in harbour we were to berth stern to stern to ‘ Ark Royal ’ so that some of our Hurricanes could be transferred to her and rolled off ‘ Furious ’ direct onto ‘ Ark Royal ’ . |
| 2 | We were dyeing popcorn , of all things , in two bowls of red and yellow Dolly-dye in my sink the next morning when I heard John moving about . |
| 3 | ‘ We were peeped Mo . ’ |
| 4 | By the end of the week there was just a simple theory test left where we were asked questions about winds , how to overtake and so on — and then it was certificate time . |
| 5 | We were asked petition . |
| 6 | These were sooty shearwaters and we realised we were passing Kidney Island , a local nature reserve which held large colonies of seabirds , including many thousands of these sooty shearwaters . |
| 7 | We were called khwaja saras , not hijras . |
| 8 | As we were to take care of our own mounts during the trek , we were shown how to groom them , which had to be done morning and evening , and how to tack up . |
| 9 | However , people could relate true finances and they certainly could be fed back directly if , if we , if we were using estimators . |
| 10 | The first morning we spent weaving with every other needle , laying the wool across by hand ! this put me off right away , because we were using punchcard machines , so nothing would have been easier than to slip in Card 1 and go ahead with our weaving without any trouble . |
| 11 | Category one had the largest entry as well as the most interesting ( and hardest — we were using Northumberland grades ! ) problems . |
| 12 | But my mother-in-law was suspicious and asked us , so we had to tell her we were using condoms . |
| 13 | Some thought we were wasting time , ’ says Solowka . |
| 14 | I though we were expecting visitors today . " |
| 15 | I wore my trusty Scarpa Trionic Mantas ( £106 ) for the whole trek , as we were expecting snow and would therefore need the compatible Yeti Gaiters that help make the boots virtually waterproof . |
| 16 | We were producing coal at 71 of our 174 pits — 47 of which were working normally . |
| 17 | The ‘ presents ’ and the ‘ gifts ’ were those we exchanged daily when we were writing poetry together — presents which , unlike those of my childhood , did not break as soon as touched . |
| 18 | ‘ We were writing songs under pressure , ’ explains Eugene . |
| 19 | I had written to Joe Ackerley about Dana , and how we were writing poems together , and he asked to see some examples of this unusual collaboration . |
| 20 | The current had already sucked us out into the centre of the river , and we were gathering speed downstream . |
| 21 | They would turn in their graves if they knew that we were allowing employees to simply give twelve weeks ' notice of intent to change those conditions . |
| 22 | cos I had it running in the kitchen while we were cooking tea last night and Sue came in and goes a real big fart , and goes oh I have n't been able to fart all week , she says ! |
| 23 | ‘ You 're right ; even when Kennedy was in office we were undertaking policies that were absolutely horrible , unknown to Americans , as they still are . |
| 24 | And we were taught sort of er religious knowledge and all this sort of thing you know . |
| 25 | what your look , same with your letter forage , I think mostly we were taught letter formation , which we have n't been for a few years now |
| 26 | Now when we were taught sums like that , probably erm they were written down and we had special ways of writing it to distinguish between the two cases four times and then two plus one added together , to give us four times three equals twelve , or , four times two , which is eight , add one , which is nine . |
| 27 | We were eating breakfast , crusts of petrified bread dipped in sweet tea . |
| 28 | So anyway , at Khabarovsk we were eating ice-cream — there were always ice-cream sellers on the platform — and I was taking pictures of David and sneaking pictures of the soldiers who were on the platform with us but , unfortunately , they caught us at it . |
| 29 | When mum said that we were meeting Mike and er dad in the pub |
| 30 | Will he agree that it would be appalling if we were to allow history to repeat itself after this election ? |