Example sentences of "we were [vb pp] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were engaged at the fishing , signore . |
| 2 | We were engaged at the time on a pre-disturbance survey of HMS Hazardous , a man-of-war which sank in November 1706 . |
| 3 | They felt it would be a good idea if they extended these ideas to the subject of physics , and we were asked at the university to try for the very first time to run a set of these master classes for children aged thirteen to fourteen in physics , to see if we could transmit some of the excitement and pleasure of doing physics to children at that crucial stage in their scientific development in schools . |
| 4 | We were separated at the time — the woman in the photographs is Phoebe . |
| 5 | And that 's all anybody got was section six , this dreaded section six which we were taught at the end of the year ! |
| 6 | We were joined at the Rivermead post by a jolly girl from Chelsea called ‘ George . ’ |
| 7 | We were greeted at the hotel with several messages from the airport . |
| 8 | Her description of my flat is one that I had difficulty in recognising : ‘ We were greeted at the door by Arnold 's housekeeper , Miss Roberts . |
| 9 | It was partly because these artificial agglomerations soon broke up that we were left at the finish with a lot of little scraps , which nobody , when not talking through the back of his head , could mistake for potential nations . |
| 10 | Quite why we were undressed at the time is a mystery , though I do recall your mother being uncharacteristically excitable and an unseemly display of mirth by the ambulance men . |
| 11 | There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing . |
| 12 | But spending that hundred thousand pounds as we were told at the time , would only part solve the problem . |
| 13 | We were woken at the crack of dawn by the pitter patter of seagulls as they pecked for their breakfast . |