Example sentences of "[conj] we were [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For five hours he did n't once open his mouth to offer advice or even give an opinion and , when he checked the takings at the end of the day , although we were two shillings and fivepence light from a usual Saturday , he still handed over the sixpenny piece he always gave me at the end of the week . |
| 2 | At once I had the impression that we were two actors with the same doubts about the director . |
| 3 | Eventually , I muttered that we were Labour supporters . |
| 4 | And that 's why I 'm saying that , leading up to the Donovan Report and because I was caught up in a situation along with my colleagues , that we were changing a system er and you know , a new incentive scheme , that we were increasing production . |
| 5 | Her justification was that we were personal friends , which is absolute bullshit . |
| 6 | I found I was the only woman in the upstairs room of the Albert in Kings Cross , listening to a man in a leather jacket giving an introductory talk which seemed to assume that we were all men . |
| 7 | But and I are so used to early rising now that we were awake betimes as usual . |
| 8 | And before that we were fellow medics at Barts . ’ |
| 9 | We are drinking 60 per cent more Alsatian wine that we were five years ago ; in the first six months of 1990 imports from Alsace rose by 26 percent . |
| 10 | In the midnight stillness , Rozanov pointed out that we were three men and a woman — as in Pushkin 's story about improvisation , Egyptian Nights . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , though , we are not very much closer to a genuine explanation of amnesia in functional terms that we were twenty years ago . |
| 12 | ‘ We are less dependent upon the North Sea than we were five years ago and have , in other areas , more onshore than offshore interests because development costs — and in many cases drilling and operating costs — are lower on each barrel found and produced . ’ |
| 13 | All the Met Waafs at Bourn had by this time qualified for their ‘ props ’ , so we were two steps up from the bottom of the ladder and that 's where we stopped . |
| 14 | Malc was furious , especially when I admitted that I had n't the heart to charge the old dear , so we were two quid out of pocket . |
| 15 | Erm , so we were pure souls and we were intellects , united with the whole of being , I E the forms . |
| 16 | James right like Mr right he did n't know right and we have this sort of erm water fountain and he was running towards it and he , and he filled up his mouth with it and he was spitting it everywhere and we were all sort of getting out the way and Mr told him if you do n't want to drink it then leave it alone and he sort of turned and walked away . |
| 17 | Mr. Farr 's dog Bess was often with him when he went to the garden and we were good friends , having wonderful games of hide and seek . |
| 18 | No , even before this coming to be er came to be we were there and we were men who were different and some of us were even gods and we were pure souls and intellects . |
| 19 | We never starved and we were healthy kids but we did n't get any pocket money , there was none to spare . |
| 20 | Erm exactly what , we did n't know , we were al we all knew a little bit about the seals , however we had studied about the seals in a different way and it did n't make sense and we were young people who who were searching . |
| 21 | and we 'd been up all night serving troops and er , you see , and then the Manager said , well look er now and have some breakfast before we get th another telegram and we were next door to the Telegram Office , you see , and when , when the erm war , during the war , you see , the man would come out of the Telegraph Office and he would say er and er , you see , all the lights went out except a few lights along the back of the counter . |
| 22 | Oh we used to er we used we used to at sc we used to be at school until we were eleven years old . |
| 23 | He led us up a steep track until we were 1,000 feet above the long Lochranza inlet . |
| 24 | as if we were two trees , bough grazing bough , |
| 25 | We can do so much more than simply acting as if we were all Victorians . |
| 26 | If we were all hay fever prone , then whenever we happened to be in a place where the pollen count was high , our eyes would start streaming and our noses running . |
| 27 | Erm because of having to do everything as much as we can the medieval way , if we were ordinary people and we said we wanted to tile we 'd say , oh well we 'll go out and buy some tiles . |
| 28 | I remember walking up the hill from school with my mother after an open day , and asking her what class we were ; or rather , I asked her if we were middle class , and she was evasive . |
| 29 | It should have brought us closer together , but instead it was like we did n't know each other any more , as if we were complete strangers . |
| 30 | But she was looking at me as if we were long-lost friends . |