Example sentences of "[conj] we [was/were] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was still comforting to have with us little Liena , our 19-year-old interpreter who was a very competent rock climber and all-round mountaineer , for she had climbed Elbrus in the past and could give assurance that we were on the right course . |
| 2 | We could be accused of listening to foreign propaganda even if we were not , and now that we were on the suspected list this could have been a good excuse for having us arrested again . |
| 3 | So we swapped addresses with er , ca n't remember , it was a man middle-aged sort of man and er he then said ooh , well he said I still think that we were in the right in as much as if that policeman was supposed to have been directing traffic blah blah blah blah blah ! |
| 4 | The consequence , for me at least , was that I reckoned that the earthquake account for 1992 had , so to speak , been settled , and that we were in the clear for a year or so . |
| 5 | ‘ We consider training to be crucial and we are spending more on it now than we were during the last recession , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Once we were in the main concourse , I put down my suitcase and turned to say goodbye . |
| 7 | It was my role to lead the squadron off and that night we were bound for somewhere in the Ruhr and we were on the short runway at Oakington . |
| 8 | For I remember us doing a flipping er a family came to Wyre once and we were on the same old coble we were er doing the flipping and we thought we had nothing to do but take the rope off their heads and push them over the side of the coble onto the side of the small jetty . |
| 9 | A total of six and a half hours and we were over the small , dying town of Wyndham . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , we did a lot of the soundtracks and we were in the first four or five . |
| 11 | She was almost shouting but it was the week before Christmas and we were in the Three Tuns and there were at least six different parties going on , so nobody noticed . |
| 12 | Cos we were in the fourth year and the upper dorm grew up |
| 13 | This would be all very well if we were on the high road to eliminating death altogether ; but this is a claim that not even the boldest scientist can make . |
| 14 | ‘ On the brighter side , the value of our players would increase if we were in the Second Division . |
| 15 | We might get a thousand or so more from Hartlepool but if we were in the First Division we 'd struggle to get 7,000 . |
| 16 | But supposing we were in the same distressing condition as Mrs Lilian Boyes , whose pain was so intense she was described as ‘ howling and screaming like a dog ? ’ |
| 17 | We did n't see the ball go in because we were on the 9th tee , but we heard hell of a din behind and Tom said , ‘ Some guy must have holed out . ’ |
| 18 | When we were on the Big Wheel . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ But when we were in the great chamber you mentioned a wedding — in a few weeks . ’ |
| 20 | He struggled to make the first team when we were in the second , and went on loan to a couple of spanish clubs , then was sold to some crap side for next to nothing . |
| 21 | They always get one hundred per cent from us , because they were there supporting us when we were in the Second Division . |
| 22 | Absolutely , I would think they 're the three heroes erm Les Phillips in midfield was back to the Les Phillips we knew when he first came to Oxford from Birmingham when we were in the first division . |
| 23 | ‘ We were still treated as kids when we were in the third year , well , we still are . ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps our wine fell into the hands of looters , though we were on the Pakistani side and Muslims are n't supposed to touch alcohol . ’ |
| 25 | We have always in Czechoslovakia been proud of being Europeans , as we were before the First World War and between the wars . |
| 26 | But we may expect in the long run to become as comfortable in the new clothes as we were in the old . |