Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] be [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 These were sooty shearwaters and we realised we were passing Kidney Island , a local nature reserve which held large colonies of seabirds , including many thousands of these sooty shearwaters .
2 Suddenly we realised we were discussing question 5 !
3 When she did n't appear , we thought she was having bicycle trouble and was having to walk .
4 We knew they were taking rock samples with them .
5 The only reason we did it was to gain notoriety .
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