Example sentences of "[conj] we were [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice was surly , but suddenly he twisted round to face me and took off the headphones , and I thought he was going to apologise for his rudeness of the previous night , but instead he demanded to know if it was true that we were out in the open ocean and were not planning to make a landfall for some days . |
| 2 | Three weeks went by and we were back at the vet 's surgery . |
| 3 | Soon we left the town behind us , and we were out in the country . |
| 4 | I put on my kilt , picked up my bagpipes , clambered aboard the truck , and we were off to the beach . |
| 5 | Both Benjamin and I wisely kept our mouths shut until we were out of the main hall . |
| 6 | It did n't last long because we were back in the boardroom by now , and he quickly got another glass of champagne into his clutches . |
| 7 | At first , we thought everyone else was booming while we were down in the dumps , but from talking to other businessmen you realise that everyone is suffering the same . ’ |
| 8 | I wished I 'd had a poke round when we were up by the cliff — he probably had a little cave in there behind the brambles . |
| 9 | I was able to take controls of the aircraft when we were up in the sky . |
| 10 | When we were out on the street , we followed section by section , and each section went to its own beats . |
| 11 | She talked almost all the way down through the forest : and then , when we were out in the open she started again , ‘ Do you see those trees over there ? ’ |
| 12 | And when we were down in the kitchen the partition between the butt and the bairn as they called it was going like that inside of the house in the gale . |
| 13 | ‘ This is the end , ’ he said , as soon as we were out of the kitchen . |
| 14 | I asked as soon as we were out of the chamber . |