Example sentences of "we [was/were] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were also told that the fire was started in June , and was not expected to be extinguished until the start of the rains , normally in October . |
| 2 | Finally an announcement was made that there was trouble with the rear power car ; we were later told that the train would be terminated at Wolverhampton and a bus laid on to take us to Shrewsbury . |
| 3 | We were soon to discover that Masha might be in no condition to set us on any track . |
| 4 | We were soon to discover that he specialises , not only in deft , on-the-spot sketches , but also in brief pungent descriptions with much use of cunning metaphor . |
| 5 | We were then told that only a handful of high-spending authorities would be capped . |