Example sentences of "we [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were just a bit concerned that he was left on his own so late at night . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Talking about work , as we were just a moment ago … perhaps you would n't mind explaining to me why you want to reject some of the new designs I 've just shown you ? ’ |
| 3 | By the end of it we were just a shot oft Paul Azinger 's lead . |
| 4 | They can take up to 30 people — we were normally a maximum of 12 . |
| 5 | We were nearly a mile and a quarter out , the set was another quarter away from us , and already it was fleecy at the top , throwing up spray a hundred yards in the air . |
| 6 | We were very à deux , and I was the hoover and windolene queen . |
| 7 | Turning next to a time for my ‘ house call ’ we realised that , in golfing terms , we were only a drive and five iron apart . |
| 8 | We were only a metre from the only road , but the number of cars that passed was easily beaten by the number of coffees drunk . |
| 9 | " Before , we were only a minority who complained , but with the association we wo n't stand for it any more . |
| 10 | We were only an hour 's drive from the front and it was quite frightening to watch the TV and see the Croatian coverage of the troubles , considerably more horrific than what we had seen on the BBC . |
| 11 | Radio sports reporter Tom Wadrop , a passenger on the plane during yesterday 's drama , said : ‘ We were about an hour into the journey when suddenly the cabin lights came on telling us to return to our seats , fasten seat belts and everyone was ordered to put out cigarettes . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've both been alone for such a long time I do n't honestly know whether our marriage would survive if we were together every day . ’ |
| 13 | Now we were almost a mile from shore . |
| 14 | Did you know we were originally a record plugging show ? |
| 15 | The house that I was actually born in is still there , number twenty five er after a while I moved across the road to a bigger house when , cos my mother had an another son and a daughter and then we moved over to the , so when we were quite a bit in the Stoke area . |
| 16 | It was a hot day so we were outside , which was lucky as we were quite a crowd ! |
| 17 | THOMPSON : ‘ The thing with Bill Shankly was that we were always a family and everyone knew each other from the cleaning lady to the girls in the ticket office . |
| 18 | We were always a family uprooted . |
| 19 | " We were always an army , " someone else shouted . |
| 20 | I was happy because I was now ‘ on the inside ’ , doing war-work and feeling , for the first time , that we were really a partnership ; and I was proud that I had grown more confident , and mature enough to take Leslie as he was , and no longer demanded — as he had once said that I did — that he be the White Knight . |
| 21 | While we were there the sun shone from a clear blue sky , birds skimmed over a translucent sea and amiable West Indians smiled at us . |
| 22 | We were still a couple of strokes behind Tony Lema and another Australian mate Bruce Devlin . |
| 23 | We were still a band of brothers . |
| 24 | If we were still an indie band I do n't think Peter would be as interested . |