Example sentences of "we [vb past] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lived in a tall , narrow Victorian house , which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war , when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat . |
| 2 | We lived in a gentler age . |
| 3 | We lived in a three-bedroomed council house , one of the bedrooms being little more than a boxroom , and by this time there were seven of us in the family . |
| 4 | But we lived in a middle-class neighbourhood and I met with a lot of disapproval . |
| 5 | We lived in a detached three-bedroom house on the edge of the town . |
| 6 | We lived in a huge old flat facing the Panthéon , and I began to study medicine seriously . |
| 7 | And , if the positions were reversed and we lived in a black-dominated society … |
| 8 | Let me put it another way , if we lived in a magic world , and were n't having things like essays and package deals together , and any officer was being asked to forecast the money that would be needed for the sensible and , and virile implementation of five B , would you arrive at a figure of about thirty thousand pounds or not ? |
| 9 | We owned no property , as we lived in a rented flat and in any case needed a home in London for at least two more years . |
| 10 | We lived in a rented cottage in a remote Welsh valley with no luxuries . |
| 11 | We lived in a large farmhouse , that belonged to the farm my father worked for . |
| 12 | We lived in a high-rise apartment , so I wo n't miss that , and the only garden I ever get to see is my mum 's when we go down there on Sundays sometimes . |
| 13 | We stopped in a dull village on a plateau . |
| 14 | One day last week we stopped in a deserted village and the guerrillas led me to where lunch was being prepared . |
| 15 | Early in September 1923 I arrived at Windsor Station with my mother , and from there we drove in a horse-drawn cab past the Castle and across the Thames into Eton . |
| 16 | John C. Francis ( of the Athenaeum ) recorded that , ‘ I had occasion to call on him a short time before his death , when we joined in a hearty laugh over his former furious attacks upon the Athenaeum . |
| 17 | ‘ Even if we celebrated in a small way we would have attracted tourists from all over the world . |
| 18 | New England in the Fall is quite as beautiful as everyone says but the weather is fickle — we arrived in a sunny 82°F and left in a foggy 36°F . |
| 19 | On the very corner of the island , looking south towards Africa , we rested in a square cell cut into the rock . |
| 20 | Later we assembled in a large room with the other recruits who had arrived from Cherbourg , Amiens and Rouen . |
| 21 | Observed by a colony of seals , we landed in a natural sheltered harbour . |
| 22 | We worked in a special class and at a cracking pace — with a man called Harris , who had none of the contemporary difficulties about aims and objectives . |
| 23 | We gathered in a long , low room surrounded by pictures of donkeys and men in long striped skirts like shepherds . |
| 24 | The day after the Dent Blanch we indulged in a prolonged breakfast of copious coffee , yesterday 's paper and a plateful of croissants before joining the tourist throng on the Montenvers railway . |
| 25 | As we saw in a previous chapter , all the planes or levels of the human being interact with one another , and defects arising in one can be experienced by the others and can cause upsets in them . |
| 26 | From there we went in a funny little train with open trucks which fascinated Tim , until we got to a railway junction where we had to wait on the station for some hours for another train to take us to Calcutta . |
| 27 | That hot September night , we slept in a single bed , |
| 28 | It was dark when we arrived , and we left in a closed carriage . ’ |
| 29 | We left in a strange , silent huff , the women running after us into the street and trying to pull us back inside . |
| 30 | that we had in a six month period . |