Example sentences of "we were [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were sharing a two-bedroomed council house with my Pop , and although we only paid thirty bob towards the rent , we had two kids and Malc was earning just £4.10.0 a week as a butcher . |
| 2 | ‘ We were fencing a new corral today . |
| 3 | when we were looking the other day , he quite fancies it . |
| 4 | as I say erm we 've got those but we were looking the other day and were quite amazed at how many different flowers there are out . |
| 5 | If we were to take a formal view of the entailments of such a declarative sentence ( like that , for example , expressed in Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 150f. ) , we would be obliged to accept as entailments a set of sentences which would include the following : |
| 6 | I suspect that if we were to take a sensate tension structure such as the love-hate paradox that lies at the heart of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet theme , we would be able to transpose it into different forms each appropriate to a particular culture , and , provided we had the necessary skill of course , we would be able to do this for all cultures in the world . |
| 7 | ‘ We were using a 2,000 watt PA — barely big enough for a pub gig — and agreed to finish at 10pm . |
| 8 | About the middle of the month Nils discovered metal fatigue in two of the seacocks , the worst being the inflow to the heads , which meant that for all of a week , till we could slip yet again and fit replacements , we were using a good old-fashioned shit bucket . |
| 9 | So this T ratio on income elasticity is for the bit right and if we were using the five percent or ten percent as our sort of cut off point , we 'd actually discard income from our consumption , from our demand function . |
| 10 | And they 'd only be significant if we were expecting a significant disproportion anyway |
| 11 | We were expecting the American model to arrive in Europe with pleasurable anticipation , accepting its inevitability . |
| 12 | ( Perhaps this was where the first shock to people in the field arose 0 as one said , ‘ we were expecting an all-singing Branson man and what we got was , although he could be very charming , a quiet , distinctly unvibrant and very determined person ’ . ) |
| 13 | However , the basic grammatical distinctions here are the categories of first , second and third person , If we were producing a Componential analysis ( for which see Lyons , 1968 : 470-81 ) of Pronominal systems , the features that we seem to need for the known systems would crucially include : for first person , speaker inclusion ( + 5 ) ; for second person , addressee inclusion ( + A ) ; and for third Person , speaker and addressee exclusion ( - S , A ) ( see Burling , 1970 : 14-17 ; Ingram , 1978 ) . |
| 14 | We were producing an annual report |
| 15 | ‘ We felt we were creating the antinuclear movement from scratch , says Pete Roche , now an editor of SCRAM 's bi-monthly Safe Energy Journal , first published at the time and an invaluable guide to the growth of opposition . |
| 16 | We were seeing a steady growth in fee income of around 15% in the Newport office , and when we made the decision to move , there was n't a single indicator that we might see a downturn . |
| 17 | Well Mr er Deputy Speaker I er do n't wish to er follow the honourable member of one of my er neighbours but I actually think it 's really part of grown up politics to ensure that the political opinion of a nation is adequately represented in the forums of that nation whether it be in this place or in the European er parliament and to that extent I make no bones about it that erm I wish that we were debating a different electoral system and Mr Deputy Speaker going back to the minister 's introduction erm it is a fact , I did n't wish to intervene because I did n't , it 's a short debate and I did n't want to take up er extra time , but it is a fact is it not that our electoral system unique across Europe means that our deadline as opposed to what the French are going to do is different to all the other member states . |
| 18 | We were taught the right way to hold the tiller and mainsheet , how to pull the sail in and out and how to ‘ tack ’ — change direction by turning the front of the dinghy into the wind . |
| 19 | Ellen had bought some melon and coffee on her way to the boatyard and we were eating a late breakfast in Wavebreaker 's cockpit . |
| 20 | Realising we were meeting a real need in our ageing area , we have embarked on a ‘ Living with loss ’ training programme to equip several of our church for long term bereavement counselling . |
| 21 | On another occasion we were meeting the Prime Minister 's plane at Cardiff Airport , with only two Gofers in the team that day . |
| 22 | ‘ If we were to put a full description of the girl , and of the clothes she was wearing , in Saturday 's paper , it might be seen by her parents or someone who knew her . |
| 23 | Someone told them about us and we were sent a tea-chest full of filthy dirty , celluloid toys . |
| 24 | I always felt an affinity with Donna , I thought it was because we were born the same day — ’ |
| 25 | We were charged a hefty US$46.80 ( £23.60 ) in mooring fees . |
| 26 | We thought we were building a new Jerusalem , but these people seem hell bent on destroying Babylon . |
| 27 | Cos I 've been silly in the past , I 've told Evelyn lots of times and we had a new machine , a rapid na nailer , it er nailed er army sho er soles onto the at five hun it used to do three hundred and fifty nails a minute and we m made one just for I er went out on the road , er to five hundred a minute you see , and er we were building the first half a dozen and er er there 's two pawls at the back of the machine |
| 28 | This morning at breakfast we were smoking the last two . |
| 29 | These data were essential if we were to undertake a pluralist evaluation ( Smith and Cantley , 1985 ; Room , 1986 ) reflecting the diverse perceptions of the CMHTs and their work . |
| 30 | We were to mount a dummy attack on the R.A.F. airfield at Heliopolis , just outside Cairo , a distance of about a hundred miles across open desert … . |