Example sentences of "we were [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ We were relegated last season and are battling to bounce straight back with promotion to the North Staffs and District Cricket League . ’ |
| 2 | What the one we were using last night ? |
| 3 | I remember having a problem like that where we were erm we had a , a load of erm we were watering that material it was warmed , we thought of course would be alright but they did er , they were quite sensitive to it and they looked quite miserable . |
| 4 | ‘ The 5% increase in house prices which we were expecting this year would have solved most of our problems , including the brunt of the arrears and repossessions , ’ it says . |
| 5 | How would it be , Richard , if we were to continue this discussion over a very large pink gin ? " |
| 6 | and I ca n't remember what , the last time we were seeing each other it |
| 7 | I know now it was our believing that we were fulfilling some end , serving some plan — that all would come out well in the end , because there was some great plan over all . |
| 8 | Let us just accept that the inclusion of education within social policy is the consequence of a comparatively arbitrary decision by the author , and move on to look at the difficult problems that would have to be faced if we were to define social policy in terms of public expenditure which contributes to public welfare . |
| 9 | Mr Yeltsin said : ‘ Until very recently , we were regarding each other as political enemies . ’ |
| 10 | At least we were earning some money , and they were ending up owing the company money I think . |
| 11 | ‘ In the early days we were buying more paperback rights from other hardback publishers , because even five years ago there were more hardback publishers around that you could buy from . |
| 12 | We were achieving considerable success right up to the moment of the late King 's sudden and unfortunate death in which you show a great deal of interest . ’ |
| 13 | If , however , you do not know who this person is , or might be , it would be more helpful if we were to give some indication of why we have introduced her into the conversation . |
| 14 | The Minister must be aware that under the 1988 reform package we were assured that intervention stocks would disappear , but they are now at record levels , whether for skimmed milk , butter , beef or cereals . |
| 15 | If we were to extend this line of reasoning , we would also have to consider the materiality of services such as hairdressing , advertising and repairs which , arguably , take a tangible form and benefit their customers for a period of time after production . |
| 16 | we were discussing last year . |
| 17 | In my day , we were instructed that frost never hurt a baby yet , and if the baby cried it must be mastered . |
| 18 | Yet , when one looks back , it all seems dim and forgotten already , except for the silly little incidents which stick in one 's mind , such as when we were dive-bombed one morning and the sergeant-major fell into his porridge ! … |
| 19 | We were robbing that jeweller 's . |
| 20 | Even in prison we were denied spiritual comfort . |
| 21 | Whereas mental handicap had revolutionized fairly quickly , for Friern and Claybury we were breaking this ground before the consensus had been reached . |
| 22 | Bryan Gould , who resigned from the shadow cabinet over Maastricht in the autumn , said : ’ If we were to abandon that position now it would be a remarkable break not only with tradition but certainly with principle . ’ |
| 23 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 24 | We were getting more mileage out of an asset we already owned and it gave the business a wider base to cope with fluctuations in any part of it . |
| 25 | ‘ We were sending this chap about his business , ’ explained Ebenezer . |
| 26 | Ultimately we were given that assurance and er we were quite proud of the fact that , you know , the members had gone along with us on the proviso that we had got that principle you know , to establish . |
| 27 | When preparations for the desert were under way , we were given another child , four-month-old Sam . |
| 28 | We were given another haircut , issued with ID cards and complete uniforms . |
| 29 | Which is what we were given last year . |
| 30 | We were given some opportunity to explore this when making three visits to police stations in West Belfast , although the data on community policing are unsatisfactory because of the limited number of these contacts and the absence of supportive observational material . |