Example sentences of "[noun sg] we [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ He presented this as evidence at our investigation on Thursday and the action we took was as a direct consequence . ’ |
4 | The first case we reported was from West Germany , and the next two from the UK . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ The metal we used is from an old caravan roof which we bonded to the wood with Evostick , ’ explained Tony . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | but for some reason we 'd been to Gateshead , and I 'd looked up food processors in the Argos catalogue |
10 | They 've they 've sent , we have a bank account , the first thing we did was to o This is the steering committee . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Last time we met was at the Training Centre at Achnacarry . |