Example sentences of "[vb past] we [was/were] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We felt we were creating the antinuclear movement from scratch , says Pete Roche , now an editor of SCRAM 's bi-monthly Safe Energy Journal , first published at the time and an invaluable guide to the growth of opposition . |
| 2 | ‘ The end of the sixties came as a kind of incredible collapse ’ , wrote Haynes , ‘ a collapse of hope , and of the innocence and the naïveté of the decade when everyone felt we were changing the world . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I ca n't give any answers as to why we were beaten , but I felt we were turning the corner and starting to play the Liverpool way again . |
| 4 | I knew we were winning the real battle — a permanent cure — after one particular moment I shall never forget . |
| 5 | ‘ They just thought we were taking the piss , ’ remembers Rob . |
| 6 | At that time I thought we were scraping the barrel . |
| 7 | And thought we were doing the best possible thing we could do . |
| 8 | Thought we were doing the other side . |
| 9 | ‘ I said we were to incapacitate the aircraft , not destroy it , ’ Marshka said when Vashinov had finished his report . |