Example sentences of "we [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were asked to move into position to observe , but not to intercept , a small American ship en route from the States to Ireland and given its course and estimated time when it would pass a certain point . |
| 2 | We were we were instructed to dig for victory and so we 've got er erm a gardening guide And a book that I 've also got called We 'll eat Again which is full of war time recipes . |
| 3 | Aye , we 've done all sorts of things , there was er I used to go to chapel as well I I we were we were compelled to go to chapel . |
| 4 | ‘ We were required to sit in court as a guard duty , ’ he says , ‘ and therefore listened to many of the charges brought against the accused , who were mostly senior Japanese officers , although some of the lesser ranks were involved . |
| 5 | Once the Invasion was well under way , we were allowed to go on leave again . |
| 6 | I now turn to the adoption minutes of city hall and now it is a process of in that city hall did not endorse a recommendation from the finance panel , the budget that came from finance panel erm so we are in the slightly unusual position of having to debate the proposals of finance panel as we were recommended to do by city hall , erm that means as I understand it that er the chair of city hall will now present the annual budget statement erm and since he is going to do that in a form of an amendment er that seven other unusual features about the way in which we would normally do it which would mean that there would be er a budget statement and where there would then be the the formal proposals and amendments themself , erm so what I would propose is to try and make sure that everybody has , has maximum opportunity to have their say erm because no two amendments can be on the floor at one time er to take what the leader of the council said first of all erm then to allow the other two leaders to present their budget alternatives as it were , without it be , this is just not did n't take it at that point if they do n't want to . |
| 7 | Okay then we used this er in a way that we 're using it right now to er produce our design for what we were going to say through thought patterns . |
| 8 | The management team had , I 'll sit down if you do n't mind , the management team has decided that we were going to go for quality because it was a matter of survival . |
| 9 | Then I asked , as we were going to go from century to century , if I could be allowed to collect a few bits of paraphernalia as we went along — odd little items that had taken my fancy which would then turn up in other stories . |
| 10 | I said , ‘ Fine , ’ as we were going to listen to Phantom and that would just about give us time . |