Example sentences of "we were [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as we started our second run and we were at the lights at the corner of Portman Square , that I saw the cops had concentrated themselves on the traffic island in Baker Street . |
| 2 | This plan was no sloppily organized affair , aware as we were of the lengths to which threatened men will go to protect their most prized territory . |
| 3 | Ebert , Fest and I. We were after the assassins of the T'ang 's Minister , Lwo Kang , and had been told to wait for a contact from our Triad connections there . |
| 4 | Young people whom we knew to be honest , stung as we were by the sufferings of our Fatherland , lived convinced that Cuba 's independence was a Yankee gift and that our denunciations of national oppression were simply ways of serving an idea that they considered to be ‘ anti-Cuban ’ ( ‘ Reflexiones ante un aniversario ’ , Hoy , 29 July 1959 , p. 1 , cited in Farber : 1983 , p. 61 ) . |
| 5 | Two days later we were in the grips of another Hebbert epic , running round the High Level Route to get back to Wasdale Head for 10.00pm — our estimated time of return had been three hours earlier ! |
| 6 | We were in the rapids of revolution . |
| 7 | Tt er well we had like I I say , we w we were i we were in the hands we were in the hands of the er Italian army , the er regular army from Italy , we were in their hands er for quite some time . |
| 8 | All the windows were shuttered as if we were in the depths of winter . |
| 9 | Several months ago we were in the depths of recession but signs are encouraging that we are moving out of it . ’ |
| 10 | In consequence we must grow harder , more ruthless than we were in the days of ease . |