Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pron] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we realised we were in the WRONG parade . |
| 2 | But we got , we got what was on our list . |
| 3 | Just we got we 're on the move |
| 4 | We found he was in good shape , but had no food in his intestines . |
| 5 | We reckoned there were at least 12,000 and the total over the weekend topped the 20,000 mark . |
| 6 | When we talked it was like two people playing with a ball : sometimes it went into the goal , sometimes it grazed the post , but most of the time it went high in the air and missed completely . |
| 7 | After peering through our binoculars , we decided it was on its way to the lowest ledges to scavenge from the roosting sites . |
| 8 | Erm , then we all just worked at getting pieces out on paper , all that was going fine , and then I assigned two more people to stick all the pieces together and trying to create sentences from it , and I think the only time that I , we lost it was like , right at the end we were like looking for a few words to make our sentences make sense . |
| 9 | We thought they were like any other wartime group , nothing more than reminiscences and marching songs . |
| 10 | But what we 'll do is take it there early in the morning , we 'll get he back the bus back to Liverpool , we 'll go to the pier head and we 'll go on the ferry to New Brighton and there was me prattling all on at him and the next thing er , you di , we did n't know that , we thought we were on the main right of way street and your dad started to go across and I looked , your dad was driving , I was sitting beside him and coming towards us along this other road , which had the right of way but we did n't know was a little black mini , I was a ergh , ergh oh Harry , Harry ! |
| 11 | Of course we thought we were for it . |
| 12 | did n't like us , oh no , no , no matter where we went there was always , there was n't trouble like there is now , I mean there was no violence as such you know , but we thought it was at the time , you know , they were n't very nice to us at all |
| 13 | We felt they were in danger . |
| 14 | ‘ If Haines recommended the Jockey Club should be abolished we would have to consider it and if we felt it was for the benefit of racing we would do it , ’ Lord Hartington said . |
| 15 | We felt it was in the public interest to test security there . |
| 16 | In Force 4 winds , with the tide running , we knew we were at sea . |
| 17 | We knew what were in there before you even opened your hand up ! |
| 18 | We knew what were in there ! |
| 19 | ‘ If only we knew who was behind all this , ’ Monica mused . |
| 20 | However , each time we called she would n't answer the door although we could see the curtain move so we knew she was at home . |
| 21 | Megan put in quickly : ‘ We knew you were on your own . |
| 22 | Their lawyer , Patricia Hambrecht , says : ‘ We witnessed a dramatic drop in our appraisal business for donations to institutions , and even though we realised it was not in our narrow self-interest , we knew it was for the good of the overall arts community ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Anyway , ’ Miss Rene continued , ‘ immediately we saw this we knew it was of the highest quality . |
| 24 | We left there , we left about half five , six in the morning did n't we and we were getting lost in and we knew it was in the village in that town but we could n't find it and we kept getting lost so we all pulled her up and he went back and he said to this man can you tell me where the |
| 25 | Try as we might to tell ourselves that it 's ‘ what 's on the inside that counts ’ , we have very little evidence to show that it 's true , and inside and outside can become confused , so that we feel bad on the inside but believe that if we altered what 's on the outside ( our bodies ) we could change how we feel . |
| 26 | If we said we were in favour of the teaching of grammar , some teachers would think we were advocating a return to old-fashioned exercises in parsing and clause analysis . |
| 27 | But we had nobody been for a couple of times , now . |
| 28 | For several weeks that fear remained at the back of our minds and we wondered what was behind the brief news bulletins which were issued , and whether the whole fateful adventure would be a success . |