Example sentences of "we [was/were] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did n't see the ball go in because we were on the 9th tee , but we heard hell of a din behind and Tom said , ‘ Some guy must have holed out . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps our wine fell into the hands of looters , though we were on the Pakistani side and Muslims are n't supposed to touch alcohol . ’ |
| 3 | But it was still comforting to have with us little Liena , our 19-year-old interpreter who was a very competent rock climber and all-round mountaineer , for she had climbed Elbrus in the past and could give assurance that we were on the right course . |
| 4 | We were on the top flat , so I could n't get out to play ; my Ma was feared I 'd fall down the stone stairs and break my neck . |
| 5 | When we were on the Big Wheel . ’ |
| 6 | But what we 'll do is take it there early in the morning , we 'll get he back the bus back to Liverpool , we 'll go to the pier head and we 'll go on the ferry to New Brighton and there was me prattling all on at him and the next thing er , you di , we did n't know that , we thought we were on the main right of way street and your dad started to go across and I looked , your dad was driving , I was sitting beside him and coming towards us along this other road , which had the right of way but we did n't know was a little black mini , I was a ergh , ergh oh Harry , Harry ! |
| 7 | We were on the fortieth floor of the UN Plaza . |
| 8 | It was my role to lead the squadron off and that night we were bound for somewhere in the Ruhr and we were on the short runway at Oakington . |
| 9 | This would be all very well if we were on the high road to eliminating death altogether ; but this is a claim that not even the boldest scientist can make . |
| 10 | When I came to Haiti , we were on the same plane . |
| 11 | We could be accused of listening to foreign propaganda even if we were not , and now that we were on the suspected list this could have been a good excuse for having us arrested again . |
| 12 | In November we were at the annual bazaar at the English ( episcopal ) church , where we also made many contacts . |
| 13 | A while later we were across the other side of the hill , trying another hedge . |
| 14 | ‘ We consider training to be crucial and we are spending more on it now than we were during the last recession , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Again we paused , although now we were over the worst stretch of hill . |
| 16 | The light danced about , we were above the thin cloud line and suddenly my pains had gone . |
| 17 | Erm I took the nine year old boat out and just went out in a boat we had Mary went as well , we were like the all job for mackerel put this guy 's |
| 18 | We have always in Czechoslovakia been proud of being Europeans , as we were before the First World War and between the wars . |
| 19 | We were in the front lounge of Uncle Hamish and Aunt Tone 's Victorian villa in the attractive Gallanach suburbette of Ballymeanoch , facing each other over a card table . |
| 20 | ‘ On the brighter side , the value of our players would increase if we were in the Second Division . |
| 21 | They always get one hundred per cent from us , because they were there supporting us when we were in the Second Division . |
| 22 | We were in the First Division far too fleetingly and this is an opportunity for everyone to show what a big club Portsmouth really are . ’ |
| 23 | We might get a thousand or so more from Hartlepool but if we were in the First Division we 'd struggle to get 7,000 . |
| 24 | Absolutely , I would think they 're the three heroes erm Les Phillips in midfield was back to the Les Phillips we knew when he first came to Oxford from Birmingham when we were in the first division . |
| 25 | ‘ But when we were in the great chamber you mentioned a wedding — in a few weeks . ’ |
| 26 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 27 | Well now , because we were in the Ipswich Borough Police , we were in the fortunate position of knowing that we would serve our full thirty years in Ipswich , which enabled us to buy our own houses through building society . |
| 28 | At the forward end of that we came to a glass-panelled door , which needed no key , and suddenly we were in the comparative quietness of the drivers ' cab , right at the front of the train . |
| 29 | We were in the National Theatre bar , the downstairs bar , the place where I last saw you . |
| 30 | Then we realised we were in the WRONG parade . |