Example sentences of "[noun] we [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other Delhi parties we had been to — mostly boring official events — it had been a struggle to avoid getting cornered by some grey under-secretary from the Ministry of Fertilizer Distribution . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By and large , the war passed us by in Baldersdale , although we had to go through the business of putting black-out curtains at all the windows , even though all the light we had was from oil lamps . |
| 4 | ‘ He presented this as evidence at our investigation on Thursday and the action we took was as a direct consequence . ’ |
| 5 | Ironically , some of the breakthroughs we made were with others from the UK market . |
| 6 | The strongest associations we found were between measures of periodontal disease or oral hygiene and total mortality among men under 50 at baseline ( table IV ) . |
| 7 | One of the worst winters we had was at the start of the war , in 1940 , when the river was frozen over for six weeks right to the end of March and there was two feet of snow . |
| 8 | He mentioned old times , the Army , you know , places we 'd been to . |
| 9 | One of the places we used was in such a state of unrepair that every time it rained we had to put out buckets everywhere just to keep our feet dry . ’ |
| 10 | In the 23 hours we had been in transit on a scheduled 32-hour flight from London Heathrow , we had become fairly observant . |
| 11 | The artists we met were on the whole very unmotivated and their lack of enthusiasm ( not to mention talent ) rubbed off on us . |
| 12 | The first case we reported was from West Germany , and the next two from the UK . |
| 13 | Another outing we enjoyed was to Mayell 's Chocolate Factory , where for $2 you can tour the factory and eat as many of the products as you want . |
| 14 | Earlier that day we had been in the yard of a house near the front line , among groves of frost-damaged mandarins , where a unit of some 50 Georgians was preparing to ‘ clean ’ a group of Abkhazians ( or Russians , as the Georgians claimed ) from their side of the river . |
| 15 | ‘ The metal we used is from an old caravan roof which we bonded to the wood with Evostick , ’ explained Tony . |
| 16 | What retrenchment we experienced was from below , which illustrates that working daily with the field-worker was a source of greater sensitivity to ordinary policemen and women than was the idea of research to senior officers . |
| 17 | Considerable though the distance was across the metropolis , I sensed that the cultural and historical boundaries we traversed were of far greater significance . |
| 18 | but for some reason we 'd been to Gateshead , and I 'd looked up food processors in the Argos catalogue |
| 19 | They 've they 've sent , we have a bank account , the first thing we did was to o This is the steering committee . |
| 20 | I had pictures in my mind of all the sex fantasies we had been through … . |
| 21 | Yes , they 're just putting , well th th most erm useful erm conversation we had was with the , the ophthalmologist , she was , she was superb erm and advised us to get it done as soon as possible . |
| 22 | The interviews were mostly with women 's magazines , and many of the letters we received were from women , who felt an instinctive sympathy for John and could easily put themselves either in my position or that of John 's mother . |
| 23 | The only gunfire we heard was from the army rifle range across the hill , and sometimes they would bring tanks up on big wagons so they could practice on the moor . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Last time we met was at the Training Centre at Achnacarry . |
| 26 | At Canjuers we had been on the shooting range one afternoon , zeroing our FA-MASs on targets 200 metres away . |