Example sentences of "[noun pl] we had been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that I was fearful of describing the girls I 'd met , because I did n't want to fall into the same traps and judgements we had been talking about ; on the other hand , I was not being totally honest in leaving out their descriptions , because in fact how they looked interested me very much . |
| 2 | ‘ The particulars we had been given referred to an estate of 680 acres having four cottages and a stone house … |
| 3 | ‘ For years we had been trying to lower and streamline the bonnets of front-engined cars and the mid-engined configuration allowed us to obtain an extremely low nose , deeply recessed between sculpted front wings that sloped down to the headlights , which were contained in a plexiglass fairing to continue the line . |
| 4 | For many years we had been permitted to lay out and examine wreckage in a couple of hangars at RAE Farnborough ; but we were strictly visitors , not always welcome with our requirements for hangar space , and of course our needs were always secondary to those of our host RAE . |
| 5 | One of the things we had been told was to carry any valuables we had around with us so that they could n't go astray . |
| 6 | We all went on doing the jobs we had been trained for . |