Example sentences of "that we were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We did not believe that we were getting the best range of stock into Dillons , ’ says Adrian Bourne , group managing director for sales . |
| 2 | And er it was , it was acceptable by our members in general , that we were achieving the aims and objective of the basis of the whole incentive scheme you know , notwithstanding a lot of other things that was accompanied by , because we could we could then say to the management on most occasions , well we could do with something here that would help health and safety . |
| 3 | I told him that we were leaving the present trail at Reggane and going through In Salah and Tamanrasset . |
| 4 | ‘ This only aroused so much attention because of the press reports that we were meeting the Broederbond . ’ |
| 5 | When the hon. Member for Newham , North-East and I were buying one or two shirts in Sri Lanka , we must have been conscious that we were supporting the industry of the developing world , and rightly so . |
| 6 | Likewise , in the Second World War , the Germans , perhaps because of their complacency , never realised that we were breaking the Enigma code . |
| 7 | It is equally astonishing that the Germans never guessed that we were breaking the Enigma code . |
| 8 | Little did those of us who were involved in that exercise know that we were laying the foundations for the industrial resurgence of Germany . |
| 9 | I was suddenly startled to see that we were entering the town of Knock . |
| 10 | Some , few years ago , we were told that we were entering the age of Aquarius . |
| 11 | He gave way generously to many hon. Members — and I am sure that they appreciated it — but I suspect that we were hearing the Minister 's swan song . |
| 12 | It was simply that we were shooting the picture down in Brighton on the front to a large extent and on the rubbish dump , I remember , which we turned into the fields of northern France , and we needed that terrible phrase from the First World War , cannon fodder . |
| 13 | I remember feeling really satisfied that we were changing the world . |
| 14 | They would scarcely need spies to discover that we were preparing the kind of fleet we would need to land an army across the Inner Sea . |
| 15 | He said it would be a mistake , ‘ a mistake in sentiment ; for it could only mean that we were embalming the corpse of something that is n't really dead and need n't die at all — an aesthetic mistake — because we do n't really want to have the taste of our schooldays established as a boundary for our whole lives ’ . |
| 16 | Our next meeting of our local group we refused to launch it on the day that we were doing the training , and if you 'd seen the launch yesterday it was absolutely bloody abysmal . |
| 17 | I do n't think it 's as simple as that because at the time that we were doing the budget , we were doing it really in September , and most of those other cate categories of work , apart from like auto-offs reports and things , were n't having an impact . |
| 18 | I took him around the garden and told him simply , in the hope that it would feed through to the Romanian government , that we were making the most enormous efforts to try to break this COCOM problem . |
| 19 | Despite a decent map it had become obvious that we were approaching the high ridge of the mountains . |