Example sentences of "we [verb] [pers pn] was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we met she was still afraid she might be rearrested . |
| 2 | Seeing a big hole in the jeweller 's shop window , we realised it was not . |
| 3 | But when Strawberry reached under the seat and produced the first bottle of an apparently endless supply of Star Tiger rice spirit we realised it was not going to be that kind of adventure . |
| 4 | Their lawyer , Patricia Hambrecht , says : ‘ We witnessed a dramatic drop in our appraisal business for donations to institutions , and even though we realised it was not in our narrow self-interest , we knew it was for the good of the overall arts community ’ . |
| 5 | It was at that point we realised it was n't a very large bear . |
| 6 | David Harper said : ‘ At first we thought it was just stunned and then we realised it was really in a very bad way . ’ |
| 7 | Erm because we realized it was politically loaded that |
| 8 | Without such basic information we realized it was all too easy for myths and fantasies to develop about the demands of the investigative service . |
| 9 | ‘ I said if we drew it was not the end of the world . |
| 10 | ‘ After it happened we found he was well liked . ’ |
| 11 | When we got to his house we found he was out so Dad poked a message under his door . |
| 12 | ’ We stopped her and took her into the back room where we found she was n't fat at all . |
| 13 | We found it was more useful in stopping the debarking of trees or accidental damage to shrubs . |
| 14 | ‘ We found it was very easy to come up with agreements that said nothing , but would impress the folks back home and the media , ’ said Mr Goodwin . |
| 15 | my Lord that 's why we say it was so strict , the commission said you 're not getting exemption you have to remove everything from the market |
| 16 | It was eleven when we opened it was n't it ? |
| 17 | When we arrived I was very worried but the whistle had just gone and my teacher Mrs Edwards came out to get us and show us where our class room was . |
| 18 | er in Spain , because we reckoned it was only donkey that went in that went into the er burro as they call it , went into the went into the soup , you know with the beans and er er er various types of lentils and so on . |
| 19 | We heard he was down at the station this morning . |
| 20 | So far as we know he was never a merchant , and he never went on crusade , but had he been he would have experienced all the five ways in which travel fundamentally impinged on the folk of the twelfth century ; and if we consider the impact made by the wandering scholars and the growing universities , the flow of litigants and diplomats to and from the papal Curia , the countless pilgrims and pilgrimages , the crusades at their most popular , and the commercial revolution upon the world of the central Middle Ages — then a love of travel and a readiness to travel must be accounted one of the major catalysts of change . |
| 21 | ‘ But we know it was n't ice , ’ said Zona Phillips , who founded ‘ Families for Truth about Gander ’ . |
| 22 | Now we know it was n't John Campbell was at the reiving ? ’ |
| 23 | Shut up said Catherine shortly , we know it was n't Daryl or Alicia because they say so . |
| 24 | ‘ Now we know it was not , ’ his best friend had said . |
| 25 | It must be remembered , of course , that Greek writing throughout the classical period was still relatively difficult to decipher as words were not regularly separated ; the copying of manuscripts was a long and laborious process ; and that silent reading as we know it was very rare ; until the advent of printing in the ancient world books were used mainly for reading aloud , often by a slave . |
| 26 | ‘ In reality , we believe he was simply the perfect rapist . ’ |
| 27 | Mm cos we decided it was n't worth splitting into two groups , everybody else . |
| 28 | We knew that the radio news was not transmitted at that time of day , so we decided it was just another of his silly jokes . |
| 29 | So we sat there and we decided he was obviously a musician . |
| 30 | We thought it was probably a Jap plane , and they were in the habit of swooping down and machine-gunning anybody , so , although it was a boiling hot day , I said to you children , ‘ Let's play a game of tag round that heap of stones , ’ thinking that at least we would not all get hit . |