Example sentences of "we were [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Epiphany play of 1922 we were taking the home-made costumes back to the storage centre when I suddenly became aware of what an attractive , lovable person she was . |
| 2 | If we were to force the electricity-generating companies to take coal in volumes and at prices that they do not want , the certain consequence would be higher electricity prices for the domestic customer and for the rest of British industry , which could in turn be bad for long-term job prospects . |
| 3 | We were watching the tufted ducks which made up for their late appearance this season by arriving in more than usual strength . |
| 4 | ‘ When we were messing around last year , we were playing the same songs to the same music biz people , ’ asserts softly-spoken guitarist Bernard Butler , softly . |
| 5 | In short order I was to fly with ‘ Deemy ’ on Friday morning and we were to cover the 4,300 miles from Fairbanks to Irkutsk via Yakutsk in one day — about the same flying distance as from New York to London . |
| 6 | If , for example , we were to find the same results in the Social Attitudes Survey in the year 2006 , we could assume that these results are conditional upon age . |
| 7 | That was the day you was taken into hospital and she was in the bed , cos they were on their way down so we were changing the bloody beds ! |
| 8 | We 'd arrived too late to enjoy whatever it was that the Sixties had ; and we were left the warm dregs to mull over . |
| 9 | We were taken the few miles out to Wyton by RAF transport and in a short time , smiling falsely at each other and with our cumbersome parachutes bumping round our legs , we found ourselves walking out to the plane for our first flight . |