Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] we a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were sending us a message . ’ |
| 2 | Too often I was asked to bowl defensively , brought into the attack to stop the flood of runs when batsmen were giving us a caning . |
| 3 | She give us all these , like diseases and we had to learn parrot learn them the definition for them cos she were giving us a test on them . |
| 4 | Cos , they was telling us about the weave for the white people and they were showing us a booklet and the |
| 5 | So even if somebody were to offer us a piece which they would n't I 'm sure , a piece of old medieval furniture , we would n't take it . |
| 6 | The Oil War was costing us a billion dollars a day , and we already had more than four hundred and twenty-five thousand men in Saudi Arabia . |
| 7 | ‘ And it would be nice , ’ she added slowly , ‘ if someone was to give us a bit reading . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He was giving us a bad time , though , till you came in . |
| 9 | But like er , she took it sch to school and Scott was giving us a lift to school so did n't have to walk and she 's in the car and she 's going if this gets if this gets all smashed up Scott I hope you realise I 'm blaming you ! |
| 10 | And we did it first half , and when we were in possession , we were winning it in their sort of last third of the field , and that was giving us a great chance to create scoring chances and that 's what we 've done again today which has worked very well . |