Example sentences of "we were [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | From the pasta brunch laid on by Sonning prior to our departure , through the several , most welcome pints in Royston 's Orchard Bar to the morning coffee at Cresswell and the celebratory buffet lunch provided by Burslem , we were well fed and watered and made to feel most welcome . |
| 32 | He said : ‘ On the day we were well beaten . |
| 33 | ‘ Most people in Wickrithe would say we were well rid of him , ’ she said . |
| 34 | Yes dear I went to erm , er the er holiday camp in October to erm , er with the Red Cross and I went with the , Charlie took me and I went in a car with a friend of mine we went to the Red Cross holiday in Patefield , but it poured of rain every day every day it poured of rain did n't October it was terrible , ever so cold , but we were well looked after you know and I enjoyed it and we had the wheelchairs to go around in on for the dancing , it was really great I thoroughly enjoyed it , I have n't been for two years I had n't , but I went like in October , cos you 're only allowed really every two years to go , that 's all you 're allowed really , but I thoroughly enjoyed it you know , it was nice |
| 35 | We were well established for even three months . |
| 36 | We began to feel cold , even though we were well wrapped up , and cocooned in our sleeping bags . |
| 37 | Well he does , he goes in on Saturdays very often , he goes in on Sundays very often , you know , goes up to have a look at a site or goes into the office to look over something in peace without the phone ringing all that 's sort of thing , he puts in a lot of time that 's not strictly accounted for , Gerry did , I did as a teacher , but then we were well paid . |
| 38 | ‘ But we were well organised and , defensively , each and every player earned his pay this week — even in an age of cut-backs . ’ |
| 39 | We went to see Antigone in Greek but although we were well primed beforehand you ca n't follow it without a crib . |
| 40 | We were just telling Jacqui here , we are absolutely desolated … ’ |
| 41 | This works slightly differently from the one Kev 's suggesting , coz we did n't have to go through auctions and all that , we were just given a list of players with their prices , and given 20 million to spend . |
| 42 | Expressing the view of some delegates that the conference had merely been used as a forum to air US views , Brice Lalonde , the French Secretary of State for the Environment , said afterwards : " We have the feeling we were just invited to listen . " |
| 43 | I was talking to this other lad across the road — we were due to go off duty at two and we were just hanging about before making our way down to the station — there was no relief for us on that shift . |
| 44 | We were just hanging around talking today and the children done Christmas card competition an wi some really and me and |
| 45 | Please remember in these early days — and I am talking before we really started the bomber offensive — we were just trying to halt the mass of Germans who were rolling through Holland and Belgium . |
| 46 | Erm , then I think it probably had us confused for a while , whilst we were just trying to decide who should do writing and who should do what , but then I decided I 'd chose two people , and then we started cutting things out so then that , that went okay then . |
| 47 | And so we were panicking a bit , because we were just trying to get there , but apart from that , I think it went okay . |
| 48 | We were just locked in , no food or anything . |
| 49 | We were just locked up all the time , with half an hour exercise a day and no books to read . |
| 50 | We were just cooking dinner in the kitchen when in walked Audrey Fyfe and Margaret Russell , friends from the Lothian section of the CTC ! |
| 51 | We had no injections , we were just put in a chair and , and it cost |
| 52 | ‘ They had 95 per cent of the play , we were just hoofing it anywhere , ’ insists self-effacing supremo Graham Bond . |
| 53 | WE WERE just getting over the shock of seeing Arkle 's skeleton when this peacock strutted into the bar . |
| 54 | And be about five or six of us left then , and we were just getting ready to get off when we got hit by the second big blast , which caused most of the burns to all of us then . |
| 55 | We were just getting enough money in to do just enough in the church . |
| 56 | ‘ We were just taking some reciprocal photos for my kid , ’ Florian explained insouciantly as he stood up , indicating the photos of Joni scattered over the glass-topped coffee-table . |
| 57 | We were just taking the mickey . |
| 58 | We were just chatting . |
| 59 | I ca n't believe it , she had a right go at us , we were just chatting , and she said keep the noise down ! |
| 60 | We were just picking up the malai national programme . |