Example sentences of "we were [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were living on a shoestring all the time he was living it up down there . ’ |
| 2 | We were living on the , on the premises . |
| 3 | That is why we were reckoning on a 10 year transition . |
| 4 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 5 | We were met on the platform by an old man with a barrow selling coffee and sandwiches . |
| 6 | We were born on the same council estate — Shiregreen , in Sheffield , both ‘ well off ’ by council house standards first with a telly and matching frocks and knickers ) . |
| 7 | We were born on the same day , in the same place . |
| 8 | When we hit rapids this time the sensation was surprisingly gentle — it felt like we were riding on a huge river of jelly . |
| 9 | ’ We were riding on the seat of our pants , ’ |
| 10 | There was Boa Island , of the baleful idols , for we were staying on the inward side of Ulster 's wall , the Dartry Mountains and the great haunted head of Benbulbin . |
| 11 | We were escorted on the Prospect Tour by Dr Francis Woodman , an art historian who lectures part-time at the Bartlett School of Architecture and at University College , London . |
| 12 | We were deposited on a rough floor as the train jerked and started . |
| 13 | The challenge with which we were faced on the day of the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motion was that we knew that a very full House , which had come to hear the prime minister 's Maastricht statement , would deplete rapidly after he was finished , as the business to follow — a debate on the Earth Summit — was not very controversial . |
| 14 | It came to 5 o'clock and we were getting on the bus to go home , very tired and hungry . |
| 15 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 16 | I was reminded of this , the other night at a little theatre , I forgotten it er , when we were watching on the point of |
| 17 | Only gradually did my colleagues and I come to realise that we were reporting on a social phenomenon — an aberration triggered by fear of being left behind in a pay race , aggravated by mounting greed and , finally , sustained by sheer bolshieness . |
| 18 | We were camped on a sand and gravel plain with the road running north–south , fifty yards from us to the east . |
| 19 | We were housed on the University campus , some distance away from the town centre . |
| 20 | And we when we came of age puberty I was frightened to death me because I was sitting on the bea we were playing on the beach still a child of twelve cos we still went about with little socks on at twelve in them days . |
| 21 | We were sitting on a column base in the Hypostyle Hall reading when the first figure appeared . |
| 22 | ‘ He said hello to Rachel and introduced himself to me while we were sitting on the bench . |
| 23 | ‘ We had temporary offices in Knightsbridge ; the furniture had n't been delivered ; we had one pen between the three of us ; and we were sitting on the floor . |
| 24 | We were practising on a municipality ground , but we were kicked out of it because we refused to play against England . |
| 25 | In no time at all we were standing on a huge patch of snow at the summit of a mountain only a few feet short of a Munro . |
| 26 | We were standing on the jetty . |
| 27 | We were standing on the black-veined grey marble stairs of the Twentieth-Century Building . |
| 28 | And we were standing on the end of the house and I thought I had nothing to tie that down with but there were concrete blocks there I had a pile of those in the corner and well it took the whole blooming thing . |
| 29 | Although we were walking on a sunny , but chilly Saturday in early June , the ridge was completely deserted , a great bonus considering the weekend traffic on most Munros . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ When we were waiting on the beach I do n't think we considered our chances of survival . |