Example sentences of "we [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I played in the last game in the Third Division before we were relegated to the Fourth . |
| 2 | Maybe not that tense We were lunching at an emeried chalet off Bank Street in the West Village — licensed , sure , but with a suspicion of health food , of careful eating , of macrobiotics and longevity . |
| 3 | I said to a companion while we were wandering around the city . |
| 4 | We were wandering round the Zoo at the time , and a small boy dropped his ice-cream cone down my Courreges boot . |
| 5 | To go back to the Gdynia one on the ninth of October nineteen forty three , I have to state that when our crew arrived in England we went to er through school at Bovingdon for a couple of weeks then we were assigned to the Ninety Second Bomb Group and they wan na be sure we fit in . |
| 6 | We were engaged at the time on a pre-disturbance survey of HMS Hazardous , a man-of-war which sank in November 1706 . |
| 7 | ‘ We were engaged at the fishing , signore . |
| 8 | We tried out The Roundhouse for a while , even interrupting a World Service broadcast which was going out live from somewhere else in the building while we were bashing through a rehearsal — probably our first public airing . |
| 9 | Political and historical competence — we were quarrelling with the Communists before anyone else — and also on professional competence . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Dad leapt with alarm as , at the touch of a button , the passenger window slid down taking his chin-supporting arm with it ; and when his seat position was electronically altered , we were rewarded with a cry of ‘ What the bloody ‘ ell … ? ! ’ |
| 12 | The grown ups having gone out for the evening we then kept awake alternately for half-hour shifts by one of the boy 's watches until at long last we were rewarded by the sound of creaking and thumps from the stairs , accompanied by slurry avuncular curses and " shushes " from the aunts . |
| 13 | They felt it would be a good idea if they extended these ideas to the subject of physics , and we were asked at the university to try for the very first time to run a set of these master classes for children aged thirteen to fourteen in physics , to see if we could transmit some of the excitement and pleasure of doing physics to children at that crucial stage in their scientific development in schools . |
| 14 | Erm we were asked by the managing director er a man called W P whom I had a great deal of respect for , because he was a , he was a design engineer by trade and , and craft . |
| 15 | He was very friendly with erm who was in charge of the Extra Mural Board and erm then possibly because of this connection erm we were asked by the erm Ministry of Defence to provide lectures and courses for erm units of H M Forces stationed in the area and erm so a panel of lecturers was erm formed and erm they used to go out , the , the units used to have their own Education Officers , usually a sergeant or perhaps a second lieutenant and erm they used to come into the office and say that they 'd like somebody to go out to their Searchlight Unit or A A Unit stationed somewhere out in the sticks and er lecture on this that or the other and erm we were supposed to try and fix them up and erm the panel erm , it had quite a number of erm people on it that erm , I ca n't remember who they all were , I know that erm you 'd hardly believe this but there was a chap named Mr and another chap named Mr |
| 16 | There in 1988 a little vision of God was seen ; there we were strengthened by the Spirit of God to go back to our deaneries and parishes more confident ‘ more convinced of the truths of our faith , to share him with others in the way that Mary did . |
| 17 | We were followed by a family — mother , father and daughter . |
| 18 | We were living on a shoestring all the time he was living it up down there . ’ |
| 19 | We were living on the , on the premises . |
| 20 | But that was in Lincolnshire , where we were living at the time . |
| 21 | We were living in a spectacular era : Mussolini made war on hapless Ethiopia ; after the death of King George V came the brief reign of Edward VIII , his abdication and marriage to Mrs Wallis Simpson ; then the happier reign of King George VI . |
| 22 | By then we were living in a dirt-cheap place on the Bowery . |
| 23 | We were living in a period of change and he wanted to avoid the danger of rejecting courses of action merely because they had been considered and turned down on some earlier occasion during his leadership . |
| 24 | : My husband was in the Royal Air Force and we were living in a flat in Singapore . |
| 25 | My father was in the army , we were living in the country , and she stayed and worked in London . |
| 26 | If we were pushed to the fringes of power we would be stripped of influence in both Europe and the world . |
| 27 | In that time , we were tied to the gold standard , which we found to be inadequate and inflexible , especially as it depended in part on the mining activities in the gold mines of South Africa and the Soviet Union . |
| 28 | I am a clerk in the service of His Most Christian Majesty , King Francis I. We were passing through the village and we heard that the cure had visitors . ’ |
| 29 | And and I was I was in in the grocery on Monday morning but erm we were go through a pack of you know . |
| 30 | The fact that we were looking towards the United States might have been an acceptable concept during the war , but it has been an unacceptable concept for the past 12 years , during which Europe has been creating itself and showing an enthusiasm for a single European currency and a central bank and for increasing the powers of the European Community 's institutions . |