Example sentences of "we [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last time we met was at the Training Centre at Achnacarry . |
| 2 | The tercentenary of the church in Cambridge where we met was to be held in June that year , and we looked forward eagerly to that reunion , and to another reunion in May with friends in the Lake District . |
| 3 | The artists we met were on the whole very unmotivated and their lack of enthusiasm ( not to mention talent ) rubbed off on us . |
| 4 | Ironically , some of the breakthroughs we made were with others from the UK market . |
| 5 | What retrenchment we experienced was from below , which illustrates that working daily with the field-worker was a source of greater sensitivity to ordinary policemen and women than was the idea of research to senior officers . |
| 6 | But that 's , that 's all the all what we got is in there . |
| 7 | The first case we reported was from West Germany , and the next two from the UK . |
| 8 | ‘ The metal we used is from an old caravan roof which we bonded to the wood with Evostick , ’ explained Tony . |
| 9 | One of the places we used was in such a state of unrepair that every time it rained we had to put out buckets everywhere just to keep our feet dry . ’ |
| 10 | The strongest associations we found were between measures of periodontal disease or oral hygiene and total mortality among men under 50 at baseline ( table IV ) . |
| 11 | We 'd been on surprisingly good terms up till then . |
| 12 | V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course . |
| 13 | We 'd been on the bit of fast dual carriageway between Dumbarton and Alexandria , not long after Verity and Lewis had picked me up . |
| 14 | Well none of the lads were prepared to take that on , cos we 'd been on this contract with for the last eleven years . |
| 15 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |
| 16 | Yeah er cover was the one that , after we 'd been through the document , I did find of be of particular interest |
| 17 | GUIL : I thought we 'd been into all that . |
| 18 | Several of them enquired if we 'd been to the races ( we all had ) and had backed the winner ( no , we had n't ) . |
| 19 | Tom and Terry , but especially Terry , wanted to know everything about us immediately : where we 'd been to school ; what we 'd studied ; the history of the British constitution , or lack of it from an American point of view ; what the real situation was in Ireland ; why did n't Brian hit me when I responded to a proffered cigarette with , ‘ Fuck off out of my life , you wheedling Irish bastard ’ ? |
| 20 | That evening , Abu Salim came to chain Brian and me up after we 'd been to the bathroom . |
| 21 | We 'd hoped that such irritations were behind us , but then they started taking toothpaste and soap away from us after we 'd been to the bathroom . |
| 22 | We 'd been to a party with Nancy and Frank . |
| 23 | He mentioned old times , the Army , you know , places we 'd been to . |
| 24 | I remember wandering with Donald somewhere in the East End after we 'd been to the Whitechapel and we saw a group of teddies standing round two middle-aged Indians . |
| 25 | And how did you know we 'd been to Nice ? ’ |
| 26 | All about how terrible we 'd been to one of the new teachers , how you could understand some of the other classes doing that , but not us , and you banged the desk so hard all the books fell off and we fell about laughing , and you had to laugh too , you could n't keep a straight face . |
| 27 | but for some reason we 'd been to Gateshead , and I 'd looked up food processors in the Argos catalogue |
| 28 | er somebody said well the , the table 's , we 'd been to French in the morning and I had n't realized that the table 's |
| 29 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 30 | They were younger than myself and er we 'd been at but er we 'd been at together . |