Example sentences of "we were [verb] [to-vb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes , we definitely needed the three points today , you know , before the game we were looking to get three points erm to get one out of it we are disappointed , but as I say , the way we 've played second half , we 've just got to take a bit of heart from the fact that we did n't get beat . |
| 2 | Sometimes we were struggling to get ten minutes each . |
| 3 | We were required to get four stamps on a form , German customs and passport control plus Austrian customs and passport control . |
| 4 | Horace took a long view of excellence ; a very rough idea of his aesthetic commitment to the tradition of Greek letters , and some understanding of the initially cool ( or possibly baffled ) public reception of his Greek-inspired Odes , might be gained if we were to try to imagine one of our own Augustans studiously engaged , while everyone else relied on the staple measure of the heroic couplet , in the production of poems imitating the intricate court metres of the Nordic skald , such as the Drottkvaett , or the Dunhenda . |
| 5 | ‘ We were taken to see one other Home , it was quite nice but it was more claustrophobic — each room was like a little closed unit . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We were genuinely worried we were going to get 200,000 kids outside the front door , she 's becoming so popular . ’ |