Example sentences of "[verb] we [was/were] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect we were about three miles out to sea by now , though I could not smell any salt , hear any gulls or see any boats . |
| 2 | ‘ We have not played well enough in any department and we have got to hold our hands up and say we were not good enough . |
| 3 | ‘ Say we were too small fry for them . |
| 4 | Cynics might have said we were too folksy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Johnson even complained a little — or so Boswell suggests — that he was not seeing enough of Boswell : ‘ He asked me today , how it happened we were so little together . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ When the report was produced we were very happy with how it appeared , and it was well received , ’ says Acorns ' commercial director , John Overton . |
| 8 | ‘ I had n't realised we were so high up . |
| 9 | Our traditional British reserve made them think we were very hostile and resented them being here , and their extrovert camaraderie we regarded as showing off . |
| 10 | That was when we realised we were terrifically compatible and started ‘ going out ’ . ’ |
| 11 | Unable to admit that meeting him had been the catalyst , Luce said , ‘ I realised we were totally unsuited . |
| 12 | In paragraph 78 , the report records the Secretary of State as saying : ’ the view that we took was that the technology that was involved was reasonably well proven We were perfectly satisfied that it would work . ’ |
| 13 | But you can not expect I mean we was actually lucky there was a job there now , when it closed down . |
| 14 | but I mean we were n't broad . |
| 15 | Well well I can say it now really four have taken the R S A one exam , and and did very well though very nervous but er er and but they sat there and they did it which was superb I mean we were as nervous as they were sitting in here . |
| 16 | I mean we were very fortunate in having been app er apprenticed under him you see . |
| 17 | We had an early night , I mean we were literally shattered ! |
| 18 | All the same , I was confident that her threats to leave we were mostly empty . |
| 19 | The delight on her face was mixed with astonishment ; in fact I know we were both astonished , she because I was so skinny and I because she was so fat . |
| 20 | When the song finished we were both silent . |
| 21 | In the main parts of the Belfast projects we were more concerned with these lower levels of generality , because the findings have consequences for the notion of ‘ speech community ’ . |
| 22 | So it 's absolutely essential that we do go forward formally and take up all the issues in relation to the minimum achieved performance levels and the scheme arising from the consolidation of the effects of last year 's pay settlement , but as er most of the delegates from British Gas will know , I 've been er ensuring that we first of all get all of the reports in from the regional joint indu regional joint trade union secretaries to ensure that we have as much information for once as British Gas has , about what 's going on within the company , and secondly we 've had er full debates on the trade union side to ensure we were well aware of just exactly what our recollections were of what happened last year and to ensure we 're going forward in a clear and a positive way . |
| 23 | We 're always so careful , but … well , I suppose we were so busy getting ready for the cruise … ’ |
| 24 | But I suppose we were very young . ’ |
| 25 | It was difficult to believe we were over four hundred kilometres north of the Arctic Circle . |
| 26 | ‘ I prefer to believe we were n't brave enough . |
| 27 | ‘ I believe we were very fortunate to have Don 's service because of his managerial competence and determination . |
| 28 | They kept telling us what we 'd have to do and we kept saying we were not prepared to do it , ’ says Gedge . |
| 29 | I guess we were quite alienated : in a way we had no real identity of our own . ’ |
| 30 | With Batts and Speed we were extremely lucky … we now seem to have a glut which we had back in the early Revie days … the trouble is these days keeping them , with freedom of contract etc . |