Example sentences of "we [was/were] [adv prt] [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 | Both Benjamin and I wisely kept our mouths shut until we were out of the main hall . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We were back in the sultry heat of the valley . |
| 6 | We were down at the main road . |
| 7 | We were in for the worst . |
| 8 | We never saw Chilete until suddenly we were in among the grey ghosts of houses , the road rutted now and full of mud . |