Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNTIL Saturday we 'd not been to Meadowbank Stadium since July 1986 , the distinctly unlucky 13th Commonwealth Games . |
| 2 | ‘ There will be a storm before long , ’ Michael said , ‘ we 'd best be in the Tower . ’ |
| 3 | I mean , alright a few mad things happened and everything and when I came home I was whacked because we 'd just been on a big adventure theme park for a month . |
| 4 | We 'd better be on our way because the sooner we get to the party and do our duty , then the sooner we can leave . ’ |
| 5 | But we ca n't haunt places we 'd never been to , which is a bore for me , because I was so young when I died I 'd hardly been anywhere . |
| 6 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 7 | Well , it was n't till the Tuesday of the week after when we 'd all been to the funeral at the crematorium that Inspector Bush came in again . |
| 8 | The last time we worked together was in Prague , late Spring of ‘ 68 … just before the Czechoslovakian balloon went up . |
| 9 | The first time we went out was to the pictures and we did n't say a word to each other all night . |
| 10 | Others can make a judgement that you should be spending less than that , and in fact the first budget we presented yesterday was at the level of three hundred and eleven point five million , which is further below the capped level . |
| 11 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 12 | I say that I thought we had already been through all this . |
| 13 | Worst of all , no one seemed to have remembered that we had already been round this particular course , decided the policy , and rejected compulsory private health insurance . |
| 14 | Finding a lone man amid open ocean is doubtful at the best of times , and we had just been through the densest fog bank either one of us had ever experienced . |
| 15 | We had also been in touch with him indirectly through learning early in the year that he and John Hayward were needing a housekeeper . |
| 16 | ‘ We had best be on our way soon , Cleo , before dark falls . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We had best be on our way , my lord , ’ she managed in a barely audible voice . |
| 18 | Twenty-four hours earlier , we had both been in Paris . |
| 19 | The amazing thing to us was that we had both been in the Air Force for years , but had n't met until the war was over . |
| 20 | ‘ We had better be on our way to pick up Mrs Squirrel now . ’ |
| 21 | It is not the hardest peak in the Alps but it is one of the classics , and we had done it , though we had only been in the area a couple of days and had still been acclimatising . |
| 22 | We had now been in the village for nearly five weeks , and the atmosphere was heating up considerably . |
| 23 | We had all been in Hawaii with Youth With A Mission ( YWAM ) taking part in the Crossroads Discipleship Training School , YWAM 's basic entry course for full time workers . |
| 24 | ( One of the few times we missed out was with a 200lb sturgeon caught in the North Sea . |