Example sentences of "[Wh adv] we were [verb] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Highly delighted with the transaction , we made our way back to Althorp Street , wondering how we were to break the news to Mrs Sugden . |
| 2 | We became good friends and I remember his comments one day when we were discussing the ever-rising cost of living ; Lawren said , wrinkling that high forehead under the white mane of hair , ‘ This high cost of living worries me ; one of these days , if it continues to rise , I 'll have to dip into capital ! ’ |
| 3 | One evening when we were watching the show , I looked around and discovered I was the only person awake in the room . |
| 4 | I considered that point during the summer , when we were considering the rules of the scheme which should operate for the current financial year . |
| 5 | Commodores , Ladies and Gentlemen before we commence the business of the Annual General Meeting I 'd like to remind members of the very great honour that was bestowed upon the Association at the end of last year when we were granted the right to wear the red ensign defi defaced with the crown . |
| 6 | One evening when we were broadcasting a ‘ live ’ commentary on a baseball game under floodlights , the lighting failed and I ad-libbed for 45 minutes until they were repaired and the game continued . |
| 7 | Like the time when we were having a well-established film star on the show , and the researcher suggested that I should say as an opening gambit , ‘ You 're still a very attractive man , are n't you ? ’ |
| 8 | Yesterday , when we were doing the lawn . |
| 9 | No it 's when we were doing the electricity . |
| 10 | Perhaps Mr Woolf had overheard that classic remark by a member of the public who said to me one day when we were negotiating the locks of the Caledonian canal in Venturous , " I did n't know we had Inland Revenue Cutters . " |
| 11 | Some of our personnel visited a Shelduck centrifugal launch site in Holland in 1979 , when we were designing the Falconet system . |
| 12 | Lij Yasu 's restoration would at the least constitute a considerable propaganda success for Turkey ; it might even bring Abyssinia into the war on the side of our enemies , at a time when we were fighting the Germans in East Africa , the Turks in Sinai , Mesopotamia and the Aden Protectorate , and the Dervishes in Somaliland . |
| 13 | At Bridgend Hotel everything was first class grub — rooms — surroundings , but we were knocked up at five o'clock next morning to start by coach at six for Port Ellen in the south of Islay , where we were to join the steamer at half past eight to return home . |
| 14 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 15 | We then said goodbye to the kindly fireman and Paul Ingouf said he would come with us to the Harbour where we were to catch the ferry to Portsmouth . |
| 16 | The right hon. Gentleman asked why we were introducing a Bill on this subject . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know why we were making the damn thing — everybody was acting like it was a pain in the ass . |
| 18 | However we were helped a lot by good teaching . |