Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pron] [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we did a signing session at the Rough Trade shop , we thought it was the biggest ball hop ever ! ’ cackles Niall . |
| 2 | We thought it was the end of racing but looking back now it was the making of us as riders . |
| 3 | We thought it was the time when we could make a gesture in return . ’ |
| 4 | And we thought it was the way that we tret it ! |
| 5 | ‘ And while we felt we were the best team in England , we were killed by our own success . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When we won it was the biggest race . |
| 11 | The reason we did those mailings is because of the warning that we had they were the only mailings available by the way . |
| 12 | Oh we had it was the Airleys we had at that time . |
| 13 | ‘ We were to view the corpse because we suspected it was the body of an imposter . |
| 14 | 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 … . |