Example sentences of "[conj] we [was/were] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We bought Dowty knowing that we were at a low point in the aircraft build forecast , that was part of the reason for the timing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We both understood that we were in an extraordinary situation . |
| 8 | Daylight showed us that we were in an idyllic sixteenth-century thatch-roofed cottage , set in the immemorial , rolling Wiltshire countryside . |
| 9 | ‘ We consider training to be crucial and we are spending more on it now than we were during the last recession , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Once we were in the main concourse , I put down my suitcase and turned to say goodbye . |
| 11 | There were 13 of us , aged 17 — 19 , and we were on a month-long adventure organised by World Challenge Expeditions , a company which offers young people the opportunity to join treks around the world , from the mountains of Nepal to the rainforests of Ecuador . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A total of six and a half hours and we were over the small , dying town of Wyndham . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , we did a lot of the soundtracks and we were in the first four or five . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Cos we were in the fourth year and the upper dorm grew up |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Obviously if we were in a contracting sector then we would not be doing so well . |
| 20 | ‘ On the brighter side , the value of our players would increase if we were in the Second Division . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ? ’ |
| 23 | But we were without a first officer . |
| 24 | We were not merely ready to welcome strange things when we had walked half a mile up a lane and met no man , but we were in a gracious condition for receiving whatever might fall to us . |
| 25 | It was an Arab strike but we were in a safe area . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | When we were on the Big Wheel . ’ |
| 28 | Last season he was getting loads of stick and his contract came up for renewal — when we were in a potential relegation situation . |
| 29 | ‘ But when we were in the great chamber you mentioned a wedding — in a few weeks . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |