Example sentences of "[noun pl] we [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the places we went to were absolute tips — paper peeling off the walls , damp patches on the ceilings — and video just glosses over it all . ’ |
| 2 | At times we seemed to be on an unavoidable collision course with menacing sharp edged rocks , only to be swept clear by the current at the last minute . |
| 3 | Some residents we spoke to were frightened to talk publicly for fear of reprisals . |
| 4 | On operating systems we wanted to be as truly hardware independent as we can , so we have chosen to operate potentially under any Posix-compliant operating system , so that gives us all the flavours or brands of Unix and a number of proprietary mid-range operating systems which are achieving Posix compliance as time goes by . |
| 5 | This time there were initially only five of us , but we began to visit women we knew to be active in their local Christian communities . |