Example sentences of "we [was/were] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew we were a naval vessel and he also knew that we were in the vicinity . ’ |
| 2 | Erm no , no , we were a good old cross section I think really . |
| 3 | So here we were a million miles away from his world of steak and more steak and steak Tartare and steak Bernaise and Moet and Lanson and Dom Perignon . |
| 4 | And I griped to her about a certain person at work , I lamented the fact that we were a second-rate company when we could be a first-rate company , the usual junk . |
| 5 | We are still asking more or less the same questions we were a hundred years ago . |
| 6 | WE WERE a small group : Soeriaatmadja , the head of Indonesia 's Elephant Task Force , Graham Child , the director of Zimbabwe 's National Park Service , Iain Douglas-Hamilton , who has spent many years observing elephants in East Africa , and me . |
| 7 | We were a small group and could get to know and help each child individually . |
| 8 | I was sure he could well afford it , though we were a small , old-fashioned practice . |
| 9 | No , it started at our first show in Glasgow , and then we got support slots with Mudhoney before we were a developed band . |
| 10 | But time was pressing on and we were a long way from home . |
| 11 | We were a long way from Orange , isolated in the farmhouse , and we knew how unpleasant the next month was going to be depended entirely on the whims of the staff . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought we were a long way from anything out here . |
| 13 | We were a two-trolley group . |
| 14 | That was one of the reasons why , when we set up Headline , I called myself sales and publicity director , as opposed to marketing director , because I wanted to make it perfectly clear that we were a combined department . |
| 15 | Well we were a better er service , they were a better ser I 'm not saying that I think so , I know they were a better service don does n't does n they 're not quite proof , there were in an tramcar Edinburgh Corporation tramcars were running , they were running at a , a , every year a profit . |
| 16 | Indeed , we were a mixed bunch . |
| 17 | We were a tiny fumbling company for ten years before anybody took any notice of us . |
| 18 | We were a spiritual race . |
| 19 | In those early days we were a real sub-Faces band , all Gibson guitars and plonking bass lines . |
| 20 | Well , we were a real partnership , were n't we ? |
| 21 | We were a real Eighties couple . |
| 22 | We were a happy unit , three men and five girls , and all got on well together , especially with Paul who , when he was n't thinking about Diedre , was good fun to have around . |
| 23 | They must have thought we were a soft touch . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We were a jolly party , ’ wrote Beatrice Webb , wife of the President of the Board of Trade , ‘ all laughing at the joke of Labour in Office . ’ |
| 25 | We were a big family , so there were never any guarantees that members of the family would progress . |
| 26 | Sometimes we were a few feet higher , sometimes the other one was . |
| 27 | Not until we were a few yards away from the perch could we turn , hold our arms out and release the jesses so that the bird could fly the rest of the way . |
| 28 | We were a few feet from the main entrance , but he needed to pause before moving on . |
| 29 | As we were a few days behind schedule by this time I decided to press on while the weather held and the following morning saw us off Montrose with an ominous early shipping forecast of a southerly gale . |
| 30 | ‘ We were a different breed . ’ |