Example sentences of "we [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose we were swallowed up by an earthquake , we thought , as Amphiaraus had been ? |
| 2 | ‘ We were living out of a hat dramatising dirty jokes . |
| 3 | He said we were holding on to the ball , but we wanted it to come out . |
| 4 | ‘ When we were looking around for a royal to open the centre , we were promised as soon as someone was available for a royal visit , we would get one , ’ said Peter Carberry , chairman of Darlington Mind . |
| 5 | We were looking down into a little valley like a green cup in the hills . |
| 6 | We were called out in the middle of the night to man the Bund ( a sort of wide wall that encircled the entire camp ) . |
| 7 | This is the carbohydrate stodge we were warned about in the Kylie article . |
| 8 | Then , came Peter 's most frightening moment : ‘ We were sent out in a Land Rover and told we were driving through enemy territory . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ People were very friendly and we were invited in for a number of cups of tea during our stay , ’ PC Mardon said . |
| 10 | We were marched out in a crocodile , just like schoolgirls — were n't allowed to go out two-by-two or in threes or fours , but all in a line so we would n't disturb the pedestrians . |
| 11 | Off you go , ’ and I gathered we were to go back to the beginning and start again . |
| 12 | We were kept in on a strict curfew and given meagre amounts of pocket money each week , which was just enough to buy food and travel to the DHSS office . |
| 13 | We complained to Malcolm , told him we were fed up with the mice and we did n't have enough money to eat properly . |
| 14 | We were fed up with the sexism in self-organized disability movements and even more fed up with the ableism of the women 's movement . |
| 15 | ‘ We were robbed out of the game , ’ said an angry Chapman . |
| 16 | So off we went out and we played our football , and I came back , and we were sneaking in through the back door and bumped right into him . |
| 17 | And er then we were led through into the assembly area . |
| 18 | It 's important again that we were seen around in the business community . |
| 19 | Now the sky was blue , and we were bowling along beside the edge of the cliffs , with views across the water to distant strands . |
| 20 | After one or two formal speeches ( at which reference was made to our visit as the ‘ first short-term English course since the crushing of the Gang of Four ’ , and I tried to make a suitable reply , ) we were whisked off to the Friendship Hotel to a welcoming meal consisting of Peking duck , ancient duck 's eggs , and other good things , and I wielding our chopsticks to the best of our ability . |
| 21 | We do not send you copies of every letter we write , minutes of every meeting we attend , etc because we assumed you would realise we were getting on with the job . |
| 22 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 23 | The events that followed have been chronicled by several of those that took part , My fate was similar : we were to listen out for a coded signal from Group at Lyon if we were to proceed to the target . |
| 24 | At length the big green truck arrived and we were bumping off to an anxious reception from Mrs. Anxious about her fragile porcelain , I should say . |
| 25 | It rained most of the time , and when we were kicked out of the youth hostel for the day we walked around and sat in bus shelters . |
| 26 | The taxi driver who left us at the station , enchanted by the idea that we were setting off for the source of the Nile , refused to accept any fare . |
| 27 | Why did you suppose we were setting off with a stretcher and torches , at this time of night ? ’ |
| 28 | So inflexible was this masterplan that when New Scientist attempted to introduce someone who knew nothing about computers to the machine ( it is claimed to be very easy to use ) we were turned down on the grounds that ‘ this would upset the timetable ’ . |
| 29 | When our dad died , we were turned out by the Bridgewater agent . |
| 30 | After a slower than expected march we were gearing up on the famous Green Ledge in bright sunshine — the Ennerdale mountains stretching away like the bony spine of a slumbering dragon . |