Example sentences of "we were [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason was that we were touching three million unemployed at that particular point in time , and it was felt that the best way of making an impact was to highlight this in the way in which it was done . |
| 2 | We were shouting at them through the hatch . |
| 3 | We also talked about the need to be able to control this vastly more complex new environment as if we were controlling a mainframe . |
| 4 | I immediately gestured to the Hurricanes to carry on to Malta by themselves as we were ditching and we turned for the coast ourselves , losing height all the way . |
| 5 | One horseman knew bryony as big-root : ‘ We used to come across it while we were ditching . |
| 6 | We were sharing a two-bedroomed council house with my Pop , and although we only paid thirty bob towards the rent , we had two kids and Malc was earning just £4.10.0 a week as a butcher . |
| 7 | Around that time , we were sharing a lot of material to work toward the Apollo link-up . |
| 8 | It was a soft infectious laughter , as if we were sharing private jokes . |
| 9 | Often when attempting to explain some aspect of my studies to fellow students who were having difficulties , I would look up from the textbook we were sharing to see an expression of sheer disbelief pass across their faces . |
| 10 | We were sharing it out between four so we got we we always say a quarter I think I think it 's a good idea the way the Americans say a fourth cos you can it ties it up with the four shared out between four people . |
| 11 | We were sharing a table with an elderly lady , a Mrs Harvey . |
| 12 | Maybe not that tense We were lunching at an emeried chalet off Bank Street in the West Village — licensed , sure , but with a suspicion of health food , of careful eating , of macrobiotics and longevity . |
| 13 | We thought we had an enormous pile but unfortunately our fire was not very long lasting and by 6 o'clock we were wandering about looking at the other , more professionally built conflagrations . |
| 14 | We were wandering round the Zoo at the time , and a small boy dropped his ice-cream cone down my Courreges boot . |
| 15 | I said to a companion while we were wandering around the city . |
| 16 | One of these er , I suppose it 'd be a ballpoint or whatever you call it and this , I 've still got it , it says on the Queen Elizabeth , see , and er , you see , we said , we said , well never mind very much , we can have something a snack afterwards and so we stayed on there from eleven o'clock in the morning until three in the afternoon , you see , and er er and we were wandering around and we saw the dining room , we saw the captain 's table and er , you know it was , and , and then we looked along one deck , we were high up , and down below there were rows of , rows of lifeboats in case you see |
| 17 | It may lead us to compare the relative increase in costs over a year , believing that we were comparing like with like . |
| 18 | Halfway through , Corporal Vigno decided that we were slacking so we all had to do press-ups on the gravel , perched on our clenched fists . |
| 19 | We were dyeing popcorn , of all things , in two bowls of red and yellow Dolly-dye in my sink the next morning when I heard John moving about . |
| 20 | We were fishing together recently on Plantation Loch , near Altnaharra in North-West Sutherland , catching nothing . |
| 21 | We were hanging about for 19 hours altogether . ’ |
| 22 | We would then discuss them and the barristers , as if we were criticizing a play . |
| 23 | We tried out The Roundhouse for a while , even interrupting a World Service broadcast which was going out live from somewhere else in the building while we were bashing through a rehearsal — probably our first public airing . |
| 24 | Political and historical competence — we were quarrelling with the Communists before anyone else — and also on professional competence . |
| 25 | ‘ The facts that we were quarrelling , that you did jump out of the car and refused to get back in when I tried to persuade you . |
| 26 | You see , we were coasting when I went to sleep ; I was floating , held by my seat belt . |
| 27 | So I , and the only other lad in the dormitory , who was also a railway enthusiast , were surprised and stunned to hear , just as we were slipping off to sleep , the sound of wagons being shunted in the station . |
| 28 | It would 've been best with a bigger piece , bigger programme because then we could 've it was easy to see where we were slipping |
| 29 | We were counting on her coming with us today but she 'd already made plans to meet some friends in Times Square . ’ |
| 30 | We were so broke when we were living there that I 'd buy a bar of Kit Kat in the morning , have two fingers of it for breakfast and the other two for dinner in the evening . |