Example sentences of "we [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On the frequent occasions we were engaged in Christian work , we had additional problems with our black lamb . |
| 2 | Just as we were engaged in these sotto voce instructions , Eliot himself was perceived to walk across a passage at the far end of the flat . |
| 3 | ‘ Eric was late , ’ he said , ‘ but we were prepared for that and we waited . |
| 4 | We were asked by some teachers for a ‘ follow-up session to be included in a Q.T. Day . |
| 5 | We were asked by some teachers for a ‘ follow-up session to be included in a Q.T. Day . |
| 6 | And so we were complimented by some of our colleagues on the shop floor you know , that , what a difference is on the place . |
| 7 | And we were called into this long room at the erm it was at House at and er there was all these well I considered them to be old men , they could n't have been so old you see but I was only a boy . |
| 8 | We were represented on local and national liaison committees with Welsh Water Plc and the National Rivers Authority . |
| 9 | We were treated to splendid views of distant mountains and farms scattered among an open rocky landscape . |
| 10 | In addition we were treated to several interesting idiosyncrasies of the East Anglian scene , such as the long platform at Cambridge station , with its odd method of working . |
| 11 | But on the Friday Evening we were treated to another dinner , this one so splendid that it was designated a ‘ banquet ’ , and was held at the Peking Duck Restaurant , an eating place of great fame , specialising , like Mrs Hogg , in duck . |
| 12 | We were treated like second-class citizens and accepted by neither the Australians nor the English . |
| 13 | And the team will cry out for joy as well , because we were created for this community , and in a way we have been looking for it all our lives . |
| 14 | We were met with cool efficiency by the English crew and I shall never forget my relief at the sight of them . |
| 15 | Despite the five or so light aircraft sitting on the apron , when we went to Airport Information to ask how we should get back to our aircraft we were met by blank looks . |
| 16 | We were separated for four hours in Peterborough once — I looked everywhere for him . |
| 17 | We were split into two separate teams and taken into the play area . |
| 18 | On the 13th we were warned for slow play . |
| 19 | Thin , pale , intense , he had not been speaking many minutes before we were electrified by this man . |
| 20 | ‘ You will know of our history and you will know that we were sent into that slumber many hundreds of years ago , by the Dark Lords who held sway in the reign of the High King Cormac . ’ |
| 21 | So we were sent to another hostel . |
| 22 | you know , how that change has taken place and I as I say we we were we were compared to some we were well off , we 'd got a tap in the house.So many people had n't even got a tap they were in the yard , and that tap was shared by a dozen families . |
| 23 | Shopkeepers beckoned us into their premises where we were tempted by sparkling silver jewellery and traditional greek hand woven mats . |
| 24 | As we passed Pabbay we were hit by successive heavy squalls ; the promontory toe Head would be out of the question . |
| 25 | We were spoiled with four-star luxury by a family who care about getting the details right . |
| 26 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 27 | ‘ We began to drift apart when we were posted to different ships . |
| 28 | After the last erm Stansted Airport Consultative Committee , three month 's ago when we were presented with this press report that refers to four and a half thousand flights er over which period . |
| 29 | As Webster goes on to point out , when study of the cuneiform records revealed that the Babylonian shabbatum ( full-moon day ) also fell on the fourteenth ( or fifteenth ) day of the month , we were presented with another survival of what must have been the primary meaning of the Hebrew term shabbath . |
| 30 | And it 's more fun now than when we were consumed by white-hot passion . |