Example sentences of "we [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said we were holding on to the ball , but we wanted it to come out . |
| 2 | We were called out in the middle of the night to man the Bund ( a sort of wide wall that encircled the entire camp ) . |
| 3 | This is the carbohydrate stodge we were warned about in the Kylie article . |
| 4 | Off you go , ’ and I gathered we were to go back to the beginning and start again . |
| 5 | We complained to Malcolm , told him we were fed up with the mice and we did n't have enough money to eat properly . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ We were robbed out of the game , ’ said an angry Chapman . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And er then we were led through into the assembly area . |
| 10 | It 's important again that we were seen around in the business community . |
| 11 | Now the sky was blue , and we were bowling along beside the edge of the cliffs , with views across the water to distant strands . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | When our dad died , we were turned out by the Bridgewater agent . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Coming sir , ’ they both trilled , and soon we were sitting down at the dining table in a corner of the living-room . |
| 21 | I think that year we were making up for the limitations of the one before . |
| 22 | ‘ We were blundering around in the darkness ! ’ said Gurder . |
| 23 | But we were pulled back from the brink ; the attempt failed . |
| 24 | The address was , and I think still is , Kensington Court Garage , because the stables had been converted to the needs of the automobile age ; and we were perched up in the gallery . |
| 25 | We were shown around by the site director , who pointed out some of its features and also the spoil heaps . |
| 26 | We visited the Baltic Yacht Club , owned by the Baltic Shipping Company , where we were shown around by the friendly vice commodore , Alexey Bulkanov . |
| 27 | We were driven back through the nearly empty streets . |
| 28 | Did n't look very well , we were walking down by the side of the road ! |
| 29 | Then we were walking back towards the carriage , and as we passed I heard Mr Jonesy say to the preacher , ‘ I 'll give 'im the devil when I get 'im 'ome . ’ |
| 30 | On the contrary , when that afternoon 's session ended and we were walking back across the campus , he put one of his Anglepoise arms across my shoulders and attempted some avuncularity . |