Example sentences of "we were now [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were now on the cold , open moor . |
| 2 | The beautiful green fields with their thick hedges were behind us , and we were now on the cold , open moor . |
| 3 | We were now on the glossy blacktop that led towards the army laundry , Rosa 's old creche . |
| 4 | Only the reading matter — the Peking news , with its latest vituperations against the ‘ gang of four ’ , and its praise of Chairman Hua and the great revolutionary zeal of the Chinese workers , peasants , cadres , etc. warned us that we were now behind the bamboo curtain . |
| 5 | We were now in the 20th century irrevocably , ‘ part of an age where we must be allowed to take the possible risks of our own knowledge . ’ |
| 6 | We were now in the province of Manitoba , not Ontario . |