Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] was 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 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 When we won it was the biggest race .
9 Oh we had it was the Airleys we had at that time .
10 ‘ We were to view the corpse because we suspected it was the body of an imposter .
11 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 … .
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