Example sentences of "we were [vb pp] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were met on the platform by an old man with a barrow selling coffee and sandwiches . |
| 2 | We were escorted on the Prospect Tour by Dr Francis Woodman , an art historian who lectures part-time at the Bartlett School of Architecture and at University College , London . |
| 3 | The challenge with which we were faced on the day of the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motion was that we knew that a very full House , which had come to hear the prime minister 's Maastricht statement , would deplete rapidly after he was finished , as the business to follow — a debate on the Earth Summit — was not very controversial . |
| 4 | We were housed on the University campus , some distance away from the town centre . |
| 5 | We were told on the phone about her diabetes . |
| 6 | I forgot to mention that we were accompanied on the walk by our own Welsh collie bitch and a borrowed Corgi dog . |