Example sentences of "we [was/were] [verb] [adv] " 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 | We were assigned almost immediately to carry our share on such missions as , Hanover , Berlin and then there were those shallow missions to North Africa and , and of Russia . |
| 5 | Halfway through , Corporal Vigno decided that we were slacking so we all had to do press-ups on the gravel , perched on our clenched fists . |
| 6 | Suppose we were swallowed up by an earthquake , we thought , as Amphiaraus had been ? |
| 7 | It was clear to me from this letter that we were engaged again , if that was what I wanted , and I did ; also , that the natural happiness and buoyancy of Leslie 's nature had reasserted itself , now that it had been released from what he had felt to be the cramping frustration of home service . |
| 8 | We were fishing together recently on Plantation Loch , near Altnaharra in North-West Sutherland , catching nothing . |
| 9 | We were hanging about for 19 hours altogether . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If we were to carry out a similar survey in the future and recording conversations would you be willing to take part ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | My own favourite example of this attack , and the contradictions that came with it , was that as Council members we were asked both to take pride in an NEA-sponsored and adulatory film about the graffiti that were then disfiguring the New York City subway system , and to support lavishly the great American museums whose distinguished collections were ( and remain ) a standing rebuke to the so-called experimental art of which graffiti were then such a beguiling component . |
| 14 | We were asked earlier in another case involving a young boy if we would be prepared to help . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you think we were followed here ? ’ |
| 16 | As we left , we were followed out by two men . |
| 17 | The Colombi is among the ‘ Thirty Best Hotels in Germany ’ list — and we were followed close to Freiburg … ’ |
| 18 | We were living here and there , and I was looking for investors , so we gave a care-of-Cook 's address . |
| 19 | ‘ We were living out of a hat dramatising dirty jokes . |
| 20 | We were living quite near a saddler 's shop in Debenham , and I was always interested in it . |
| 21 | Jim was a charge nurse , it never occurred to us that we were living before , below the poverty line . |
| 22 | Like the time we were riding in Australia and the conditions we were living in were awful . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We were so broke when we were living there that I 'd buy a bar of Kit Kat in the morning , have two fingers of it for breakfast and the other two for dinner in the evening . |
| 25 | ‘ I knew that Alan liked the odd drink but it was n't until we were living together that I realised her was more or less an alcoholic , and violent with it . ’ |
| 26 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 27 | And that 's why we , we were dispatched out to Jordan , er at sort of very very quick , very short notice . |
| 28 | We were trained less to kill than to be killed . |
| 29 | He said we were holding on to the ball , but we wanted it to come out . |
| 30 | 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 ! |