Example sentences of "we [verb] be [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside the window it looked as if the few farm houses we passed were floating in a sea of snow . |
| 2 | Erm , so what were doing is were , we hope were waiting for a new prisoner to be allocated to us , erm , and perhaps we could , perhaps we could , perhaps we can write and remind you think , think we should do that ? |
| 3 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 4 | We 've been acting on a |
| 5 | Constanza has added a scribble , ‘ We 've been running into a rather nasty situation . |
| 6 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 7 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |
| 8 | But this thing we 've been doing with an acid and an alkali , most of the bases will do it as well , |
| 9 | We 've been growing at a fairly significant rate considering we 've only been back about five years . |
| 10 | So if that management committee decides in a year 's time or two year 's time thank you when when we 've been rolling on a bit and a lot of this has died down that they want a single headed project . |
| 11 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 12 | Quite apart from the impending expansion and modernisation of our fleet , we had been going through a difficult period in the prevailing political climate at HQ . |
| 13 | Looking back , I find it interesting that our exchanges were consistently humorous , as if we had been rehearsing for a Wit and Wisdom contest . |
| 14 | The young man admitted in due course , when we had been driving for an hour , that he did not know the way and was totally lost . |
| 15 | A small hole was dug , the cigarette buried , songs sung over the grave and then the whole procession wended its w ? y round the field four times singing the funeral march from Aida , which we had been practising for a week . |
| 16 | They may not be looking for treatment or rehabilitation but er what we can offer them is clean injecting equipment er free condoms , because H I V is transmitted sexually as well , probably more than , more often than in Oxfordshire , er and also we have been prescribing from an assessment clinic in the city centre . |
| 17 | We have been dealing with an agent so I do n't know how he really feels . |
| 18 | Scientific director Gordon McVie said : ‘ We have been looking for a link between diet and cancer for 20 years now and this could be it . |
| 19 | We have been living in a jungle all our lives and we have struggled to bring our minds into cultivation but without hope and suddenly we have found this meadow of cleared land on which we can plant our gardens . |
| 20 | There seems little wrong with that , for we have been living in a fools paradise for years and also depriving the Americans of value . |
| 21 | But after plunging towards the relegation zone with just four points from the previous 21 , he admitted : ‘ We have been going through a bad time and We needed this win . ’ |
| 22 | All day since dawn we have been lying on a soft bed of bluebells in a wood beside a river . |
| 23 | Mrs Buxton , aged 82 , plans to travel with the containers : ‘ We have been running as a charity for about 10 years and I usually go over with the donations to cities such as Krakow and report back on what is badly needed over there . ’ |
| 24 | As well as developing these national awards we have been working with a number of employers and other organisations to develop awards which are tailored to their individual needs . |
| 25 | ‘ But we have been working on a few things , just as we did before the first leg . |
| 26 | ‘ For many years we have been waiting for a mighty star to appear in the heavens and now it has . |
| 27 | ‘ With petrol ambulances , we have been budgeting for a fuel consumption of about 11 mpg . |