Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] we would [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What are called ‘ proofs for the existence of God ’ are not attempts to show that there must be a divine kind of thing ( we have no concept of a divine kind of thing ) , they just seek to show that if and when all other questions were answered we would still be left with this mystery : and this is what we shall call ‘ God ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ We were told we would only be in this house temporarily when we moved here . |
| 3 | ‘ We were told we would only be in this house temporarily when we moved here . |
| 4 | If we had paid more attention to what the Japanese were doing we would perhaps not be so subject to their products as we are . |
| 5 | ‘ The handicapped reach out to us in simplicity and trust … rejecting them we create a cynical selfish world for us to live in … we are walking a path which after Nuremberg it was said we would never be walking again , ’ she said to loud applause and a standing ovation . |