Example sentences of "we [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the place where I was lived up we were called er er the we were Upper Islay , over passed the fence , aha . |
| 2 | Ah , we were pleased daddy and I . |
| 3 | ‘ We were 13 floors up and it turned out the furniture — which landed on a car — was worth £6,000 . |
| 4 | When we made the bet , in 1975 , we were 80 percent certain that Cygnus was a black hole . |
| 5 | We were early risers on the first morning . |
| 6 | We were early suburbanites , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 7 | We never starved and we were healthy kids but we did n't get any pocket money , there was none to spare . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't think we should win but everyone would think we were nicer people . ’ |
| 9 | We were new men … |
| 10 | I know what when we were dredging down there , we used to have er what we call our safe chains and when we were first dredging down there you 'd put your chain in , hands were all purple . |
| 11 | We were two adults and we do n't think that way , ’ he said . |
| 12 | At once I had the impression that we were two actors with the same doubts about the director . |
| 13 | We were two strokes ahead of Dai Rees , but at the 15th we hit trouble . |
| 14 | For five hours he did n't once open his mouth to offer advice or even give an opinion and , when he checked the takings at the end of the day , although we were two shillings and fivepence light from a usual Saturday , he still handed over the sixpenny piece he always gave me at the end of the week . |
| 15 | Malc was furious , especially when I admitted that I had n't the heart to charge the old dear , so we were two quid out of pocket . |
| 16 | All the Met Waafs at Bourn had by this time qualified for their ‘ props ’ , so we were two steps up from the bottom of the ladder and that 's where we stopped . |
| 17 | Our farm was only connected to the mains supply in 1951 , and here ‘ we were two years later talking about a power station which promised electricity almost ‘ too cheap to meter ’ . ' |
| 18 | And Fergsuon acknowledges : ‘ We might not be so reliant on Robbo as we were two years ago but he is still the leader , the player the rest look up to . |
| 19 | ‘ I played for Scotland Under-21 against them in the European Championship quarter-final tie last season , when we were two goals behind on aggregate and then scored three times in the final 20 minutes to win . |
| 20 | After the first day we were two shots behind Dai Rees and Kel Nagle , who we owed one for beating us by a shot the year before . |
| 21 | as if we were two trees , bough grazing bough , |
| 22 | We were one day from the summit , after six weeks of effort . |
| 23 | When the alarm dragged us from our dreams on September 3 last year we were one night 's work from the summit ridge — just 12 hours from the top of Ultar . |
| 24 | and then Rochdale up towards Blackpool and we 're stuck right in the bloody middle so the er , they were a , like we were one delivery that 's all it , and we were n't that big an account , you know even doing a reasonable trade you 're not |
| 25 | Erm well as a housewife erm hm we we were poor people . |
| 26 | We were peaceful people . |
| 27 | We were raging lions then and England 's name was feared from the northern seas to the Straits of Gibraltar . |
| 28 | The South West had 10 players from champions Bath and Barnes added : ‘ When we were 14 points adrift I regarded that as an Alpine peak to climb — not a Himalayan . |
| 29 | Yeah well they gave it out when we were passing bus when we went down |
| 30 | ‘ We were six inches off winning when the b + + + + + + rope slipped , ’ says Labour deputy chief whip Don Dixon in somewhat unparliamentary language . |