Example sentences of "we [was/were] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 After all , we were no ordinary family , but a clan : I was told by my mother always to hold my head up high , and remember that I was not only a MacLeod , but a double MacLeod — MacLeod being also her maiden name .
2 The first official post after September 3rd confirmed what we were told might happen , we were no more members of the London County Council staff , but had been taken over by the government and were to be known as part of the Emergency Medical Service .
3 He knew we were a naval vessel and he also knew that we were in the vicinity . ’
4 So here we were a million miles away from his world of steak and more steak and steak Tartare and steak Bernaise and Moet and Lanson and Dom Perignon .
5 And I griped to her about a certain person at work , I lamented the fact that we were a second-rate company when we could be a first-rate company , the usual junk .
6 We are still asking more or less the same questions we were a hundred years ago .
7 WE WERE a small group : Soeriaatmadja , the head of Indonesia 's Elephant Task Force , Graham Child , the director of Zimbabwe 's National Park Service , Iain Douglas-Hamilton , who has spent many years observing elephants in East Africa , and me .
8 We were a small group and could get to know and help each child individually .
9 No , it started at our first show in Glasgow , and then we got support slots with Mudhoney before we were a developed band .
10 But time was pressing on and we were a long way from home .
11 We were a long way from Orange , isolated in the farmhouse , and we knew how unpleasant the next month was going to be depended entirely on the whims of the staff .
12 ‘ I thought we were a long way from anything out here .
13 We were a two-trolley group .
14 That was one of the reasons why , when we set up Headline , I called myself sales and publicity director , as opposed to marketing director , because I wanted to make it perfectly clear that we were a combined department .
15 Indeed , we were a mixed bunch .
16 We were a spiritual race .
17 Well , we were a real partnership , were n't we ?
18 In those early days we were a real sub-Faces band , all Gibson guitars and plonking bass lines .
19 We were a happy unit , three men and five girls , and all got on well together , especially with Paul who , when he was n't thinking about Diedre , was good fun to have around .
20 They must have thought we were a soft touch . ’
21 We were a jolly party , ’ wrote Beatrice Webb , wife of the President of the Board of Trade , ‘ all laughing at the joke of Labour in Office . ’
22 We were a big family , so there were never any guarantees that members of the family would progress .
23 Sometimes we were a few feet higher , sometimes the other one was .
24 We were a few feet from the main entrance , but he needed to pause before moving on .
25 Not until we were a few yards away from the perch could we turn , hold our arms out and release the jesses so that the bird could fly the rest of the way .
26 As we were a few days behind schedule by this time I decided to press on while the weather held and the following morning saw us off Montrose with an ominous early shipping forecast of a southerly gale .
27 We were a different breed . ’
28 We were not disappointed but we were a little hurt . ’
29 Bartolini also admitted : ‘ We were a little bit worried when it happened and , of course , he was a little bit scared .
30 Erm my mother , we were a little bit better off than they were and er I remember going to a child with my mother , to see what would be my aunt you see and uncle , and the only time I ever remember seeing my aunt with eleven children was sitting at the corner of a table with a sort of a coarse apron on and just sitting there and I never saw her doing anything .
  Next page