Example sentences of "we [vb past] [be] [verb] at the " in BNC.

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1 Some of the antibodies we used were studied at the international workshop on blood group antibodies at Paris , 1987 .
2 When we got in touch with the Colonel a surprisingly easy task , the military communications network superbly efficient — it turned out we had been landed at the wrong port .
3 For the past hour we had been standing at the top of a Norfolk heath in swirling snow .
4 ‘ If we had been sitting at the bottom I could accept my fate , but we are seventh and have lost only one of the last eight games . ’
5 Hamilton greeted him with emotional thanks and immediately surrendered our papers : our little Nansen passport , our Portuguese visa , even the ticket coupon with which we had been issued at the harbour of Salerno .
6 We had been told at the time he had been in trouble before .
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