Example sentences of "we [vb past] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The artists we met were on the whole very unmotivated and their lack of enthusiasm ( not to mention talent ) rubbed off on us . |
| 2 | We 'd been on surprisingly good terms up till then . |
| 3 | V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course . |
| 4 | We 'd been on the bit of fast dual carriageway between Dumbarton and Alexandria , not long after Verity and Lewis had picked me up . |
| 5 | Well none of the lads were prepared to take that on , cos we 'd been on this contract with for the last eleven years . |
| 6 | Before it was built we were very much under stress , because the church where we recorded was on a flight-path into Berlin , so we sometimes had to stop and re-record a passage five or six times before we got it right . |
| 7 | Our billetors were obliged to provide us with breakfast , which might be taken about 7.30 ( or 10.30 if we had been on night duty ) , and one other meal which had also to be a moveable feast . |
| 8 | We had been on holiday in Scotland and I was doing the washing on the Monday when suddenly a huge black cloud seemed to descend — a mass of fear , anxiety and utter depression . ’ |
| 9 | At Canjuers we had been on the shooting range one afternoon , zeroing our FA-MASs on targets 200 metres away . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |