Example sentences of "we [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I played in the last game in the Third Division before we were relegated to the Fourth . |
| 2 | To go back to the Gdynia one on the ninth of October nineteen forty three , I have to state that when our crew arrived in England we went to er through school at Bovingdon for a couple of weeks then we were assigned to the Ninety Second Bomb Group and they wan na be sure we fit in . |
| 3 | Erm we were asked by the managing director er a man called W P whom I had a great deal of respect for , because he was a , he was a design engineer by trade and , and craft . |
| 4 | The right hon. Gentleman said that the previous set of talks had concluded , and that we were looking at the new basis for talks . |
| 5 | It seems that we now have serial correlation in our model as a result of including the dummy right , now we 've got to test statistic , I mean always look at the F version of the test , right , er our F statistic of three point seven six is significantly different from zero , right , that leaves seven percent level , so a five percent test we probably accept that we did n't have any serial correlations and we just got there by the skin of our teeth on that particular test erm yes , you could probably get away with this one , functional forms fine , no problem there , hetero skilasticity right , are F statistic three point nine but significantly different from zero that 's six percent level , right , so again we just scrape it if we were looking at the ninety five percent confidence it wants to be five percent if you are using as five percent significance level . |
| 6 | Erm presumably we are talking here next year , talking about sort of years effects , and I just wondered what would be the effects that in general terms if we were looking at the full year effects ? |
| 7 | We were looking for the reflective eyes of a fox . |
| 8 | We were treated to the long diatribes of detailed considerations about the cost of paper clips and God knows what else . |
| 9 | We are therefore behaving as though we were fixed in the European Monetary System . |
| 10 | Charles Laubscher , who remembers : ‘ We were flying across the southern end of the island when Control came on the air with the warning that two bogeys were in our area . |
| 11 | It seemed as if we were flying in the 1930s . |
| 12 | ‘ My name 's Stirling , ’ he said , almost as though we were meeting for the first time outside his Club in London . |
| 13 | That is why we need history presented as it is in this book : not just as the brief flicker of time since the industrial revolution or since the invention of writing , but as the 40,000 years of modern thought and language , and the sweep of six million years since we were born as the third chimpanzee . |
| 14 | We were born on the same council estate — Shiregreen , in Sheffield , both ‘ well off ’ by council house standards first with a telly and matching frocks and knickers ) . |
| 15 | We were born on the same day , in the same place . |
| 16 | Although we both knew that we were acting from the best possible motives , I argued , other people were always ready to place a malicious interpretation on their neighbours ' doings and it might therefore be better to wait before breaking the news . |
| 17 | For the rest of the day we were blessed with the dappled shade of the Tiziatin Forest , a spread of evergreen oak . |
| 18 | our developments in hydraulic fracturing techniques , which improve the flow of crude oil into the well , were recognised when we were presented with the Royal Acadamy of Engineering 's MacRobert award — the UK 's premier accolade for innovation in engineering . |
| 19 | We were to wait for the oyster-fishing season in the Bay of Cancale without giving the boats notice and stop them as they sailed past Barfleur Head … |
| 20 | There was Boa Island , of the baleful idols , for we were staying on the inward side of Ulster 's wall , the Dartry Mountains and the great haunted head of Benbulbin . |
| 21 | Lay brothers hurried about , unpacking the carts , and we were escorted into the spacious , white stone guest house : a large solar on the ground floor with above it chambers for each of the abbot 's guests . |
| 22 | We were led into the closest touch with the African Doctor through this period . |
| 23 | Whilst grooms took our horses away , we were led into the dreary Chapter House , now made a little more comfortable with hangings and arras , cushions and chairs , from Queen Margaret 's stores . |
| 24 | Finally we were referred to the recent decision of the House of Lords in Roy v. Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster Family Practitioner Committee [ 1992 ] 1 A.C. 624 . |
| 25 | He replies : ’ we were formed from the old Liberal Prty and the SDP . |
| 26 | True to form we were disqualified at the first change-over between David and me . |
| 27 | Our Rolls was directed straight in and we were deposited at the Grand Hall entrance . |
| 28 | ‘ We succeeded because we were elected to the Lebanese parliament and we were able to take over from the Turks and French in their ministries . ’ |
| 29 | We were fascinated by the lither , graceful women , effortlessly balancing judge , beautiful towers of fruit on their heads , which they took daily to the temples for blessing . |
| 30 | Last , while not wishing to prescribe a particular pattern of operation , we were fascinated by the whole business of the micro-politics of change within project schools , In particular , the management of innovation through the institution of committees , the control of agendas , the persuasion of individuals and ( putting it bluntly ) the Machiavellian manipulation of situations were features of the project in action . |