Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pron] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There was a cheer as we lifted what is the country 's highest award in industrial journalism . |
| 2 | ( 43 ) * We thought it be the right choice . |
| 3 | ‘ When we did a signing session at the Rough Trade shop , we thought it was the biggest ball hop ever ! ’ cackles Niall . |
| 4 | We thought it was the end of racing but looking back now it was the making of us as riders . |
| 5 | We thought it was the time when we could make a gesture in return . ’ |
| 6 | And we thought it was the way that we tret it ! |
| 7 | ‘ And while we felt we were the best team in England , we were killed by our own success . |
| 8 | Probably we felt they were the sort of client that we wanted or that there was already er a connection that we had er or there was a particular service that we thought we could offer and penetrate them in that way . |
| 9 | We are sorry Q.T. day had to be cancelled but because the weather conditions were so bad we felt it was the right thing to do . |
| 10 | We knew he was the owner of the club and — while he ca n't have been more than four-foot-nine inches tall — we knew that Soho was run by Maltese gangsters just like him . |
| 11 | We all knew it would be disastrous ; we foretold that her husband would walk out , that her other children would suffer : we saw she was the only one of the family unit who could n't bear not to see the fruit of her womb , however sour , ripen , drop and live . |
| 12 | When we won it was the biggest race . |
| 13 | What we gave you is the time they come and the next weekend they were back again , and I 'd warned them several times and in the end I said look forget it , and I had it , you know , the works gone off , erm , and as far as I 'm concerned it 's Wednesday nights , I 've really got to , and the price I started to pay , is no longer worth it to me . |
| 14 | The reason we did those mailings is because of the warning that we had they were the only mailings available by the way . |
| 15 | Oh we had it was the Airleys we had at that time . |
| 16 | ‘ We were to view the corpse because we suspected it was the body of an imposter . |
| 17 | We held it was the duty of revolutionary Socialists to denounce both imperialist peace and imperialist war as the inevitable consequences of Capitalism and , whichever came , to carry on the independent class struggle of the workers , directing it towards the conquest of Worker 's Power … . |