Example sentences of "we [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WE were spat on , sworn at and manhandled , but victory at the end of the day was ours . |
| 2 | Ca n't tell you how long a journey it was back in the fog from Liverpool that day , and then when we were relegated back again to the third division it was on the last match of the season against Charlton , and the heavens opened and a big thunder storm and it just flooded the pitch and the referee just called the match off and they had to play it again the following Friday and Charlton ran out two-one winners and Walsall finished with nine fit men and still that 's the football I suppose . |
| 3 | One of these er , I suppose it 'd be a ballpoint or whatever you call it and this , I 've still got it , it says on the Queen Elizabeth , see , and er , you see , we said , we said , well never mind very much , we can have something a snack afterwards and so we stayed on there from eleven o'clock in the morning until three in the afternoon , you see , and er er and we were wandering around and we saw the dining room , we saw the captain 's table and er , you know it was , and , and then we looked along one deck , we were high up , and down below there were rows of , rows of lifeboats in case you see |
| 4 | Suppose we were swallowed up by an earthquake , we thought , as Amphiaraus had been ? |
| 5 | We were hanging about for 19 hours altogether . ’ |
| 6 | A week after the operation that took us to Southern Ireland , I was told to take Venturous up the east coast to Hull and from there , after a crew change , we were to carry out extended patrols northwards which would eventually involve us in a complete circumnavigation of the British Isles . |
| 7 | If we were to carry out a similar survey in the future and recording conversations would you be willing to take part ? |
| 8 | So I , and the only other lad in the dormitory , who was also a railway enthusiast , were surprised and stunned to hear , just as we were slipping off to sleep , the sound of wagons being shunted in the station . |
| 9 | As we left , we were followed out by two men . |
| 10 | ‘ We were living out of a hat dramatising dirty jokes . |
| 11 | Like the time we were riding in Australia and the conditions we were living in were awful . |
| 12 | I left school in 1942 and got a job at the airport , which at the times we were living in always something exciting seemed to be happening . |
| 13 | And that 's why we , we were dispatched out to Jordan , er at sort of very very quick , very short notice . |
| 14 | He said we were holding on to the ball , but we wanted it to come out . |
| 15 | He 'd whistle and all the horses would run over to us ; and there we were surrounded by these great horses , and we were holding up the babies to them ! |
| 16 | The ceiling had been removed and we were looking up at where the roof of the house once had been . |
| 17 | So we were looking around for interesting stuff to push — sounds like drugs , eh ? — he-he-he ! — and someone mentions Walter Machin . |
| 18 | ‘ When we were looking around for a royal to open the centre , we were promised as soon as someone was available for a royal visit , we would get one , ’ said Peter Carberry , chairman of Darlington Mind . |
| 19 | Well , I du n no , it 's go it 's got , I was showing th I was showing the licensing people round erm the inspection of , Jean we Jean was n't here , we were looking round and fire brigade and that were there and inspection , we turned round and all written across is Jean is a fucking fat cow ! |
| 20 | He talked about Fitzroy , the naval officer who had carried out the first detailed survey of the waters we were looking down on , and of Darwin , who had joined Fitzroy in the Beagle for a second voyage in which the survey had been completed , followed by the long voyage home via the Galapagos and other islands , including New Zealand . |
| 21 | We were looking down into a little valley like a green cup in the hills . |
| 22 | One day we were at the top of the highest hill on the island , and we were looking out to sea . |
| 23 | And we did n't know we could see her and we were looking out the window going and he was there looking , put his sunglasses on to see . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , as we were looking in , we started laughing at them so loudly that they heard us , and sent the dogs after us . |
| 25 | This meant that often we were called on to provide more than one cutter the larger operations when sometimes the whole cutter fleet would be involved in shadowing or static surveillance . |
| 26 | Finally we were called up , the gun fired and on this day Lee Macrae decided to have a bad start ! |
| 27 | We wandered back home and when we entered the yard we were called in to go to bed early so we could get up to help in the morning . |
| 28 | However we were called in and were able to advise that the building could be saved . |
| 29 | We were called out to Ship Street an hour ago . |
| 30 | We were called out in the middle of the night to man the Bund ( a sort of wide wall that encircled the entire camp ) . |