Example sentences of "we [was/were] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When we were on the Big Wheel . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But when my father took over , when he came back to Galashiels , he started in bicycles and there was quite probably ten bicycle shops in Galashiels at that time and er he gave , well he , he attracted business with his efficient way of repairing bicycles and er it 's funny that after about a number of years , we were between the last , after the last war I should say , the Second World War , er we were about the only people for , for a period the only bicycle shop in Galashiels . |
| 10 | In November we were at the annual bazaar at the English ( episcopal ) church , where we also made many contacts . |
| 11 | We were at the opposite poles of humanity . |
| 12 | A while later we were across the other side of the hill , trying another hedge . |
| 13 | The light danced about , we were above the thin cloud line and suddenly my pains had gone . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ But when we were in the great chamber you mentioned a wedding — in a few weeks . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We were in the National Theatre bar , the downstairs bar , the place where I last saw you . |
| 20 | Then we realised we were in the WRONG parade . |
| 21 | Once we were in the main concourse , I put down my suitcase and turned to say goodbye . |
| 22 | We were in the happy position of being able to pass the buck . |
| 23 | ‘ We were in the old station . |
| 24 | We reached Red Cross where the city dwellings gave way to fields and small copses and , an hour later , we were in the open countryside . |
| 25 | The landing was a smooth one , but once we were inside the terminal building everything moved at a snail 's pace , the queue at immigration long and slow moving . |
| 26 | Gary player and Henry Cotton were two strokes behind us and the boss and I decided we were among the right sort of company . |
| 27 | And as I as I told you before , we was on the main concourse , heard the glass smashed , we come down a stairwell on , come round the back , saw the two , or saw two persons in the back garden , asked them what they were doing buy which time the the curtain went up in smoke , well up in flames . |