Example sentences of "we [was/were] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were up on the top floor and Ralph Horton came up to listen to us and was impressed , although I think he was more impressed with David than us . |
| 2 | Erm , you could take the as one unit and say , but now a man , wishing to be another , approached that man , and when he found us , for we were not outside the all , he wound himself round us and attached himself to that man who was then each one of us . |
| 3 | Erm but now another man erm wishing to exist or perhaps , but not a man wishing to be other erm approached them er and when he found us , for we were not outside the all |
| 4 | Later in the day I learnt from the Canadian that we were not in the main part of the camp at all , but in the cells or ‘ cooler , awaiting interrogation . |
| 5 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 6 | In fact , we were ahead in the last game until a tactical error by one of the players ( he knows who he is ! ) caused the sad downfall . ’ |
| 7 | An official from the Region had a post with a Cycleway sign attached ; this was duly knocked into the ground beside the river for the ‘ photo opportunity ’ and then removed , as we were nowhere near the actual Cycleway route . |
| 8 | We were soon alongside the small vessel as she pitched uncomfortably in the short Channel seas at about six knots , and we requested her in our usual polite manner to divert into Folkestone for a customs examination . |
| 9 | And we were right in the front row and that ruddy music she had ! |
| 10 | We were both in the upper IQ bracket ; we could 've used channels , pulled strings , bypassed the system . |
| 11 | Both Benjamin and I wisely kept our mouths shut until we were out of the main hall . |
| 12 | His voice was surly , but suddenly he twisted round to face me and took off the headphones , and I thought he was going to apologise for his rudeness of the previous night , but instead he demanded to know if it was true that we were out in the open ocean and were not planning to make a landfall for some days . |
| 13 | I think the last time you were here we were actually in the bottom half of the table but shot up to about seventh and since then once we got close to the people with games in hand and catching on the extra games we 've come up into the top three sometimes . |
| 14 | We were now on the glossy blacktop that led towards the army laundry , Rosa 's old creche . |
| 15 | We were now in the 20th century irrevocably , ‘ part of an age where we must be allowed to take the possible risks of our own knowledge . ’ |
| 16 | Now it was on to " Ultima Thule " and we felt we were really in the far north , nearer to Norway than to the UK mainland as we approached the jagged headland of Sumburgh , ringed ominously with the chart symbol for a " rost " [ tide race ] on our chart . |
| 17 | Having settled Rachel in a corner and piled our luggage round her and left you , Mig , on guard , I struggled back against the refugees and climbed the gangway again to find Tim looking a little bewildered in the midst of a seething mass of humanity but remarkably calm , and soon we were back on the small boat . |
| 18 | We were back in the sultry heat of the valley . |
| 19 | We were down at the main road . |
| 20 | Once we were there at the same time . |
| 21 | We went there morning and evening every day , and on Sundays we were there for the lengthy session of Sung Eucharist . |
| 22 | We were in for the worst . |
| 23 | We never saw Chilete until suddenly we were in among the grey ghosts of houses , the road rutted now and full of mud . |
| 24 | If we were still in the veiled forests then I would be remembering more , but we drove hard to get into the open , and banish the memory . |
| 25 | Listening to the debate and the old-fashioned ideas of male supremacy it unearthed , you could have been forgiven for thinking that we were still in the 16th Century . |