Example sentences of "we were [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember sitting helping to write the cards the night before and we were writing them off a typewritten sheet . |
| 2 | If we were to put you on a slimming diet providing you with 1,500 calories a day , you would be 500 calories short of your requirement and these would have to be taken from your body fat . |
| 3 | T frankly , yes it did , but I mean you were reading it pretty well correctly the way they read I mean most of us read things I know I do myself , one reads things quicker than perhaps some would if we were reading them on a radio or something . |
| 4 | We were following them at a good clip . |
| 5 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |