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