Example sentences of "we [was/were] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ On the brighter side , the value of our players would increase if we were in the Second Division . |
| 3 | They always get one hundred per cent from us , because they were there supporting us when we were in the Second Division . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ But when we were in the great chamber you mentioned a wedding — in a few weeks . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We were in the National Theatre bar , the downstairs bar , the place where I last saw you . |
| 12 | Then we realised we were in the WRONG parade . |
| 13 | Once we were in the main concourse , I put down my suitcase and turned to say goodbye . |
| 14 | We were in the happy position of being able to pass the buck . |
| 15 | She was almost shouting but it was the week before Christmas and we were in the Three Tuns and there were at least six different parties going on , so nobody noticed . |
| 16 | We were in the same hotel . |
| 17 | We were in the same burrow during the snow last winter . |
| 18 | So we were in the same group together for a couple of years . ’ |
| 19 | We were in the same drama class . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We were in the old station . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ We were still treated as kids when we were in the third year , well , we still are . ’ |
| 23 | Cos we were in the fourth year and the upper dorm grew up |