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Example sentences of "we [vb past] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	‘ The only mistake we made was to wait for four years before trying to sort out our lives , ’ Julius replied in an unruffled tone .
2	On the other side , ‘ some years ago we observed that quite a large proportion of the concentrated acids we sold was diluted by our customers on site and sometimes in rather unsatisfactory conditions ; small companies did n't have facilities to dilute acid safety — it generates a lot of heat .
3	Outside the window it looked as if the few farm houses we passed were floating in a sea of snow .
4	Yes , now that kingdom is , is in the Lord 's prayer as we mentioned is gone into the air and
5	Away from the roads , most areas we visited were populated by Indians : Cofan , Secoya and Siona in the north , Quichua and Huaorani ( Auca ) in the central part of the region , and the Shuar in the south .
6	Some of the antibodies we used were studied at the international workshop on blood group antibodies at Paris , 1987 .
7	But of course we were very strongly against it really but er , because th you know we 'd been inundated with all these marvellous ideas of this progress and it 's all for the best and everything , but it does n't seemed to have work does it really ?
8	We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms .
9	‘ If we 'd been pounced upon a year ago we 'd have had maybe one good song and we would have been shit and not ready , without our style defined . ’
10	I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago !
11	We 'd been living in his London flat , and so far our frantic house-hunt had been futile — too big , too small , too near the road , too far from London , but mostly too expensive .
12	so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah
13	We 'd been visited by 700 people .
14	We 'd been bickering since New Year and she 'd flounced out of my city flat in early May , darkly muttering , Nevermore !
15	We 'd been struck by a lightning bolt .
16	If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge .
17	I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government .
18	Luckily the others still were n't back so he made me write a note saying we 'd been called to London on some family matter and we took the next train from Cheltenham station . ’
19	Did I tell you that we 'd been adopted by a kitten ?
20	And the same from we 'd been selling from there as well .
21	We 'd been shagging for about a month .
22	We 'd been planning to completely redecorate our home from top to bottom , and at first I just could n't face doing it alone .
23	‘ I had jungle-boots on , and we 'd been walking through the forest all day .
24	‘ We 'd been sitting with him in hospital keeping his mind occupied , but when our visiting times changed and he was alone he would lie there and think .
25	Certainly Terry , Brian and I knew that close friends had been campaigning for us and that that experience could have changed them , just as we 'd been changed by what we had gone through .
26	I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on .
27	‘ We 'd been told for years how generous they would be , but when we challenged them , they had nothing for us .
28	We 'd been told by the guardian that the bolts on the climb were ‘ good . ’
29	When I heard reports of the changing physical shape of German women , that they were becoming a different breed of women we 'd been told from the old , rather heavy , erm motherly plain sort of woman who characterised Germany womanhood before the Second World War , well now we read that their shape and their weight and so on corresponds much more to French or British and American norms .
30	As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it .