Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | Ironically , some of the breakthroughs we made were with others from the UK market . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He mentioned old times , the Army , you know , places we 'd been to . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | In the 23 hours we had been in transit on a scheduled 32-hour flight from London Heathrow , we had become fairly observant . |
| 8 | The artists we met were on the whole very unmotivated and their lack of enthusiasm ( not to mention talent ) rubbed off on us . |
| 9 | Considerable though the distance was across the metropolis , I sensed that the cultural and historical boundaries we traversed were of far greater significance . |
| 10 | I had pictures in my mind of all the sex fantasies we had been through … . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At Canjuers we had been on the shooting range one afternoon , zeroing our FA-MASs on targets 200 metres away . |