We were fifty kilometers from the front but the adjutant worried about the fire in my kitchen.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
We were going to the Champagne.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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Usage
35 uses of ‘were’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
566 uses of ‘were’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
173 uses of ‘were’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
207 uses of ‘were’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle