Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pron] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were typical of the many Europeans we met who were tired of conventional holidays . |
| 2 | I am quite convinced that everyone we met there was each other 's cousin . |
| 3 | It was n't long before we realised there were many other talents around who wanted to be part of it . |
| 4 | ‘ Suddenly we realised it was eight o'clock and we rushed to the sitting room to put on the TV . |
| 5 | The first two weeks of treatment focus upon the acceptance of Step I " We admitted we were powerless over alcohol ( drugs , food , gambling , emotions etc ) and that our lives had become unmanageable " . |
| 6 | And erm er where we lived it was adjacent to what I call Well . |
| 7 | And eventually we got they were frightened you see , that the suction of the boats going down would pull the the water boat under . |
| 8 | Suddenly here in Aswan , we realized it was well-founded : incredible but — true . |
| 9 | When we got up to the place , we found it was uninhabited . |
| 10 | It was a starry night , and as we swam there was light in the water , sparkling , rippling , starlight playing on our fingers and the smooth seal-like lines of our bodies . |
| 11 | We believed we were poor because we children were expensive items , and all the arrangements had been made for us . |
| 12 | ‘ We judged we were able to fight double our number of any troops that could oppose us . ’ |
| 13 | Medic Mike Jackson said : ‘ When we arrived there was total chaos but officers had administered emergency first aid and did a good job stemming the blood and calming the girl . ’ |
| 14 | And the reason I use heavy gauge strings is because he was using a heavy gauge and we figured it was better and cheaper to buy strings all in one gauge . |
| 15 | It was only three nights later that we discovered they were tiny insects . |
| 16 | The week after we moved in , we discovered she was pregnant . |
| 17 | When we began I was convinced we were going to appeal to your 25-year-olds and up . |
| 18 | I have to admit that when we started we were convinced that , like everybody else , we took a risk by investing in the tournament . |
| 19 | ‘ We chose that company because we thought they were reputable and we had to do everything speedily . ’ |
| 20 | So first problem is one of serial correlation in this model right , if we estimated this model and things were as we thought they were this hypothes , these hypotheses were working and farmers were behaving erm , as we thought they might do , right , this model will automatically use serial correlation right . |
| 21 | We thought they were silly and selfish , with narrow , primitive , semi-educated attitudes . |
| 22 | ‘ Cambridge won last year 17-11 and we thought we were unlucky . |
| 23 | ‘ We were so debauched and yet we thought we were hilarious . |
| 24 | " We thought we were acceptable to the students . |
| 25 | In the past we thought we were ready to take on Europe and were a little ahead of ourselves . |
| 26 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |
| 27 | And you know when after we had withdrawn our labour , then various things arose in that needed sorting out , and the bonus system there , if we thought ours was unfair , their 's was totally out the window . |
| 28 | What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country . |
| 29 | The British politician Geoffrey Howe said in an interview on television : ‘ We thought it was right to come to a decision when I next met them last night . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We thought it was stupid for him to fly all the way back to the UK and then find that we had a problem with Jones , ’ said Lions ' manager Geoff Cooke . |