Example sentences of "[vb pp] we were [det] " in BNC.

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1 You seem to have forgotten we were all children together . ’
2 The superintendent was told and his excuse was he thought we were all on the Afternoon Section .
3 You 're asked to support the general move , that we have set out from this report , and you 're asked to agree to St Clements and East Ward , and I think we 've heard Mandy and Phil acknowledge that there may well be a case for looking at an area of council housing , which we will leave them to do , and also to approve the set of objectives , which I particularly welcome , on page sixty-two and sixty-three , which will amount to a work programme , which I would have thought we were all very pleased to see .
4 We had been privy to a re-enactment of the movements of a former working on the old harbour branch , and although not frightened we were all very puzzled by the strange sequence of events .
5 ‘ Reason tells us — when not choked by panic — that before we were born we were all dead , and that our post-mortem condition is no more frightening than the pre-natal twilight , ’ he wrote in EXIT 's Self Deliverance .
6 By the time the meal was finished we were all in our cups but Waldegrave had staggered to the meal as drunk as any bishop .
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