Example sentences of "we [was/were] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we were disappointed in the Good Report because er they did say it was one of the major issues , and yet they said that they did n't think any sweep in changes are needed which rather erm contradicted the earlier part of our report , we would have thought there were erm changes needed . |
| 2 | After half an hour 's walking the Age of Dinosaurs had come and gone , and by midday we were deep into the Palaeozoic . |
| 3 | ‘ We were shocked by the ethical immaturity of the board members , ’ she said yesterday . |
| 4 | We were poor in the first half and slightly better in the second . |
| 5 | Richard Poulsen , the new president of Digital Europe , commented ‘ We were impressed by the ACRI system architecture design and the outstanding quality of its international team . |
| 6 | Certainly we were delighted at the public support we gained in Amsterdam , which really established as accepted fact that Clause 28 could not happen here . |
| 7 | ‘ We were delighted with the remarkable confidence and expertise shown by the interpreters ’ , said Janine Harris of McDonald 's . |
| 8 | So we were delighted by the interested response of visitors . |
| 9 | ‘ I met her later in Los Angeles because we were involved in the musical Evita , ’ he explains . |
| 10 | When my boys first started school , we were aghast at the anti-English propaganda in the history books . |
| 11 | We were married for the formative period . |
| 12 | We were surprised at the continuing estimates of fixed costs , as we would have expected a minimal time investment after the first year of familiarisation , but given that training was identified as the major cost , it may be that this forms the bulk of the continuing cost . |
| 13 | I released the crew that had had no food or rest all day and we were ready for the first watch next day . ’ |
| 14 | The genius of balancing a menu meant that even yet we were ready for the next course . |
| 15 | There are already , within any company , enough people with egg on their faces who will argue that one more mighty heave will get us there , but it takes , I think , more courage to be prepared to acknowledge that we were wrong in the first place . |
| 16 | We were glad of the good fish my father brought for us to celebrate with . |
| 17 | We were worried about the poisonous pills too . |
| 18 | ‘ We were afraid of the wild animals , and the gipsies , ’ she answered . |
| 19 | In the case of our community church we were aware of the apparent separation or rift between community groups and church . |
| 20 | But here , under the thick turf roof and the stone walls which had weathered many a north Atlantic gale , we were secure from the driving rain , and the heaviest gusts of wind did little more than make the oil-lamp flicker in its hanger . |
| 21 | We felt that erm Trust Law had worked effectively erm you know over the years erm w we were happy with the extra powers that the er committee were recommending and the extra precautions that the committee were recommending that we brought in , but erm we would be happy with that backup to continue with the Trust Law . |
| 22 | Moreover , we were mindful of the phenomenological principle of the significance of " multiple realities " ( Schutz , 1964 ) and the distinction between the perceptions and descriptions of the participants ( actors ' " first order accounts " ) and subsequent interpretations made by the researchers ( second-order theorising ) . |
| 23 | Now erm for some reason or other we were responsible for the accredited Poultry Breeding Station Scheme which was erm initiated by the Department of Education or the Ministry of Education as it was then at that stage . |
| 24 | There was erm , a great reduction in corporate activity but corporate finance kept very busy er , with their value services and money raising and er , we were responsible for the National Power flotation and the disposal of Gratton . |