Example sentences of "we [was/were] [adv] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were probably all busy out in the fields at the time since it happened at the beginning of September . |
| 2 | But we were probably wrong to harbour such selfish thoughts , especially when we knew it would never happen . |
| 3 | We were also pleased to see our member Mr Turner and his wife . |
| 4 | We were also pleased to promote our long-standing Administrator , Jenny Smith , to the post of Assistant Director , Information . |
| 5 | We were also pleased to welcome members of the Board of Johnson Matthey Plc and local civic dignitaries . |
| 6 | We were also delighted to see and , both in their eighties , who worked at Stoneham maltings . |
| 7 | Using the Unemployed Flow Survey data we were also able to see whether there was any relationship between temporary jobs and recurrent unemployment . |
| 8 | Binding is not solely observed in neuronal tissue as we were also able to demonstrate binding in rat spleen extract , however it is not ubiquitous as we could not demonstrate binding in rat testis extract . |
| 9 | On occasion we were also able to make use of the services of local newspaper columnists , namely Eric Nicholl , Jack Scott and Jack Stepler . |
| 10 | But we were also able to offer help to them . |
| 11 | By including in the survey questionnaire certain of the items from the Solihull survey ( see Chapter 8 ) concerning school self-evaluation as a general notion ( i.e. not associated with a specific scheme ) , we were also able to contrast the attitudes towards SSE of the teachers in the two LEAs , the one operating a voluntary scheme , the other a mandatory one . |
| 12 | We were also able to wander around the herbaceous gardens , Pets corner , wildflower meadows and museum of farm implements . |
| 13 | ‘ We were also able to change the specification of one of our products in a way that is beneficial for them and for us and has taken several hundred thousand pounds of cost out of the combined operations . |
| 14 | We were also glad to report that the lease holders at the time found that it was n't profitable and relinquished their rights . |
| 15 | We were also glad to see 82-year-old Wally ‘ Left Hand Down ’ Perkins who has selflessly devoted the past 33 years to the unpaid unofficial work of guiding people reversing into the bays in a car park in Ipswich . |
| 16 | As has been mentioned , our limited resources made it impossible to examine the circumstances leading up to the arrest which might , or might not , explain this finding , and we were also unable to interview the police on this matter . |
| 17 | We were also supposed to dress up like our mothers , and talk about what we felt . |
| 18 | We were even able to come and go as we pleased , taking full advantage of the splendid local restaurants . |
| 19 | We were just delighted to get our play on . ’ |
| 20 | We were immensely relieved to find , in her next book , that her powers were still unimpaired . |
| 21 | ‘ Our original tour , in 1987 , was cancelled because of the World Cup and we were not due to visit New Zealand again until 1996 , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Because you know money-wise because we were not content to sit back and see er schemes being introduced that , which were going to act as a deterrent to er our members er being able to earn wages er on incentives and so therefore erm what happened was that we agreed that the consultants er head personnel manager would come down and talk to each group of people who were being put on to the incentive scheme , one , in order that he go over everything with them in regard to its application , and two , then answer any practical questions er where our members may find that there could be difficulties . |
| 23 | We were not hard to convince . |
| 24 | This is partly because of their ephemeral nature and partly because disclosure would often reveal either that very sensitive subjects were under consideration or that we had something in train about which we were not ready to make an announcement . |
| 25 | Yet ere now we were not ready to supply a ship to return to our dear native shore and bring you news of our safe passage and happy issue of our venture . |
| 26 | We were not surprised to see Boy behaving like this ; in the week of their absence , we had decided that their lovemaking would be extraordinary , legendary . |
| 27 | They kept telling us what we 'd have to do and we kept saying we were not prepared to do it , ’ says Gedge . |
| 28 | They eventually got the message after about 30 minutes that we were not prepared to bribe them with anything and let us through to the Romanian side . |
| 29 | The the estate agents were finding that they were using these up very quickly by sending them away , also they were rather expensive to send away in the post and we were not prepared to put , er we were n't getting the income to survive on that . |
| 30 | It has frequently been necessary to employ the deputising service in the evening ; we were not prepared to jeopardise our patients ' safety . |