Example sentences of "we [was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as if we were to carry our own sonic searchlight with us . |
| 2 | There are two main methods of budding — that which may be regarded as the traditional way , and another ‘ new ’ method that is more often used for other shrubs and trees — although we were using it 40 years ago on both bush and standard roses . |
| 3 | My husband Peter and I started our collection when we were expecting our first child in 1945 . |
| 4 | No , not really , not if we were creating our own heat and light from natural renewable sources . |
| 5 | My conception of the part , especially since we were seeing its full development in the three plays , was that even in his wild days the Prince must sometimes be aware of the burden of kingship which lay ahead . |
| 6 | ‘ We were flying our usual tight formation that the 401st was famous for , with the wings overlapping ’ . |
| 7 | Yet he had photographs of her in every jacket pocket , and they fell out of books at the wrong time and upset Eva ; and when he asked me about Mum , Dad and I had to go into another room , away from Eva , as if we were discussing something disgraceful . |
| 8 | The only disappointing aspect of the evening was the fact that we were denied our customary postmatch interview with Mr Taylor . |
| 9 | I thought we were chucking them all away ? |
| 10 | On our journey back home , we were to do one last activity , either ten pin bowling or white water rafting . |
| 11 | On the main stand we were promoting our new premium range of Omega Elite dog foods . |
| 12 | Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress . |
| 13 | We spent a day driving round the villages , asking for information , suspecting that we were missing something vital . |
| 14 | When we went to see her we were shown her enormous melanomas , two were the size of large grapefruit and there were numerous others up to golf ball size . |
| 15 | I mean , other thing we really need to all , er you see , when I was working at it , and when we were doing it all the time |
| 16 | If we were doing it seven days a week , fair enough , you 'd probably need a chainsaw but anything , the loppers or the handsaw . |
| 17 | We were doing our first two weeks square bashing in the RAF as boy entrants . |
| 18 | And we were walking up and down on the beach at Aldeburgh and the most interesting part of our conversation was that we were saying we both started out as not conservatives , I 've never voted conservative in my life , but we started out as very loyal people . |
| 19 | ‘ She used to burst into tears when we were having our happiest times . ’ |
| 20 | For me , this was really a fantastic prospect , for we were to live in a college where we were to have our own bedroom , bathroom and sitting-room , and all meals provided . |
| 21 | Actually what we 'll do is we 'll give you Er you 're probably a bit bigger than you were when we were giving you three er on three times a day . |
| 22 | All of us were wearing something new — a spianato — because it was the custom , however difficult in years of war , to have a new outfit for this occasion which marked the beginning of autumn . |