Example sentences of "we were [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I live in France now , and I 'm married to a Frenchman , but my introduction to drama was through an amateur dramatic society in Stanmore , where we were living at one time . |
| 2 | We evaluated erm the neurological feature detection , the work of grandmother cells and we said that in fact that probably was n't what was happening , we were looking at spatial frequencies instead . |
| 3 | And we were looking at each other . |
| 4 | Now if we go back to two years ago on the question of whether or not we should accept erm almost do n't think you 'll get any reply the professional advice of an officer , two years ago or so we had the professional advice of an officer , we were looking at yearly report of the er inspector and |
| 5 | ‘ Well ’ — I hated myself for responding to his interest — ‘ we were looking at different kinds of organisational hierarchy and how to construct optimal decision-making procedures in corporate contexts . ’ |
| 6 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 7 | But we were so hopelessly naïve we did n't realise we were buying at retail prices . |
| 8 | Away from the island the wind converted itself into a westerly and we were surfing at ten knots even with two slabs in the main and the genoa furled to almost nothing . |
| 9 | We were giggling at each other 's pictures and I started to remember the amount of fun we used to have together . |
| 10 | Most of us were encouraged at one time to ‘ dress up ’ and look pretty . |