Example sentences of "we [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we were also suffering from jet-lag . |
| 2 | He probably realised we were just going to sea . |
| 3 | In talking about USE and CHOICE in Chapter 1 we were implicitly looking at language from the author 's point of view . |
| 4 | It means we 're starting from a better baseline than if we were simply dealing with health services budget and social work 's budget and what the voluntary sector has managed to pull together . |
| 5 | In fact we were slowly falling in love , and when one late afternoon Eric kissed me as we were leaving the garden , I was not surprised . |
| 6 | Hamilton and I did dummies of what an alternative paper might look like — we were then working on Student , and had access to design material . |
| 7 | erm fucking indoor murder ball , the seat , cushion and stuff like that , its fucking well out of order piss up games oh that 's right I think we played in , I think we played , you know that British bull dog thing ? , we managed to clear all the fucking the nappy chair this and the chairs out the way , we were playing this British bull dog sort of thing and the only thing , the only , the only difference was when you got caught , got , everybody was fucking giving you a few thumps in the arm , for good measure like , and we played about four of this and every time this cocky little son of a bitch did n't get caught , he was always the last person , so we fucking said , we said , me and this other guy 's that are in our troop and that er , we said right we 'll get him , so when , when everybody sort of go for it right just after the one person in the middle , said fucking just get this guy and fucking pin him down and do something to him right , we did n't , I think we said we 'd just get him , yeah that 's a good idea , so he 's gone right go and his mate he 's fucking took off two steps and there 's eight of us fucking dived on top of him , what the fucking , he 's struggling , get off you cunt so we pinned him down and at first we was just going to de-bag him in front of the women , we 've taken his boots off and his trousers and that and shave his bollocks , yeah the whole fucking yeah , it was like an audience , all that they sort of gathered up the chairs and the tables fuck have his bollocks shaved . |
| 8 | Thus , the JanSport backpacks which were once Lo Life standard issue are now widely derided , as Moet and his friends turn to more sophisticated techniques : ‘ The way me and my friends do it now is to wear a suit and tie like we was just comin' from work , and carry a travel bag to carry another suit . |