Example sentences of "we [was/were] [v-ing] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's his birthday , Monsieur Armand , but I 'm afraid we were spoiling it by having a political discussion . ’ |
| 2 | We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out . |
| 3 | The only problem was that it did n't work out quite as we were expecting it to … |
| 4 | When , when a we were discussing it with said to me oh you do n't believe in , he meant ah and I . |
| 5 | Yes , with , with the wine we were subsidising it by about one fifty last year , shall I put it up to five fifty this year ? for members . |
| 6 | He took to it like a duck to water and from then on he 'd grill me for hours on end about the various types of plays , especially when we were watching it on TV . |
| 7 | The townfolk always stared as if we were doing it on purpose , and that made us feel worse . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I found it difficult to keep going because of the hypothetical situation you know we were talking it about it early |
| 10 | Well Billy 's name 's Billy and you know we was writing it on the floor just after we found that out his second name , and , and they said B J ! |