Example sentences of "we were [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said to a companion while we were wandering around the city . |
| 2 | We were wandering round the Zoo at the time , and a small boy dropped his ice-cream cone down my Courreges boot . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We were living on a shoestring all the time he was living it up down there . ’ |
| 5 | But that was in Lincolnshire , where we were living at the time . |
| 6 | : My husband was in the Royal Air Force and we were living in a flat in Singapore . |
| 7 | We were living in a period of change and he wanted to avoid the danger of rejecting courses of action merely because they had been considered and turned down on some earlier occasion during his leadership . |
| 8 | My father was in the army , we were living in the country , and she stayed and worked in London . |
| 9 | I am a clerk in the service of His Most Christian Majesty , King Francis I. We were passing through the village and we heard that the cure had visitors . ’ |
| 10 | Trying to pull us both up short she started on a lecture on the foetal damage caused by nicotine , but neither of us was listening ; we were looking at a memory . |
| 11 | We were looking at a plant which was a little like cow parsley but smaller , its leaves more feathery . |
| 12 | Cast your minds back , last week we were looking at the relationship between price elasticity of demand and marginal revenue , and what that relationship could tell us about er prices and total revenue in an industry . |
| 13 | On our first night in France , exhausted after a ferry crossing , we just happened to fetch up in this little village on the Loire , in a hotel on the second floor of a hotel where , indeed , we opened the shutters — and we were looking at the west end of the Romanesque Abbey of St Benoit sur Loire , which is a most striking church where the remains of the saint are interred in a little casket in the crypt . |
| 14 | ‘ We were looking at the issue but there was no commitment from us , ’ said a senior British official . |
| 15 | Previously we were looking at the way in which the colour order for pattern is decided by the Creation 6 program and took a pattern all the way through to the ‘ Knit a pattern ’ menu , ready to transfer directly across to the machine console . |
| 16 | Erm we approached the first project we were looking at the information we had available er , looking at the strength of the work a lot of information As you can see the er and , and looking at the er a definite lack of |
| 17 | Last week , for example we were looking at the mind boggling distances that we encounter when we journey across the universe . |
| 18 | And I was in a ca , er school over the summer holidays and er , we were looking at the design and technology and the point was that they got ta design and make some components , and realise I 'm talking about , you know , six , seven , eight year old , mixed girls and boys theirselves , and it was ra rather heart-warming to see where the way these youngsters react . |
| 19 | yeah , well I , Mike says I brought that one home when we were looking for a hall instead , but I said no I said it was one very similar , but he said we could n't have it because erm |
| 20 | ‘ By the time I went to Devonshire I knew that there was a real hound , and I knew we were looking for a man and a woman . |
| 21 | We were looking for a bird in brown and white breeding plumage . |
| 22 | We had a somewhat similar experience at a previous church I was at where we were looking for a minister and the , the man er who was , who came to us was again very nervous and excitable and so on . |
| 23 | We were we were not looking for an exception to policy E two we were looking for a policy which complements erm I five . |
| 24 | Their initial abuse would give way to laughter when they understood we were looking for a prahu which would carry us eastwards . |
| 25 | It was a calculated risk to take a man without forensic experience , but we were looking for a manager primarily . |
| 26 | Note that if we were looking across the board from left to right the rig would still be relatively upright , as it is being pushed well forwards thereby supplying maximum power . |
| 27 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 28 | ‘ We were overtrading in a sense , ’ he said . |
| 29 | It was an arduous climb of over a thousand feet , and we were labouring under a midday sun . |
| 30 | There was also a struggle for premises : we were meeting in a home which limited growth and every door we tried to open remained tightly shut . |