Example sentences of "when we were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were watching the end of the film of Brahms 's First Symphony which you 've been editing , I noticed you giving a very accurate two-handed performance of the timpani part on the table in front of you . |
| 2 | When we were discussing the name of the new Department , I remember a senior civil servant suggesting to the Prime Minister that , with all those powers , it should be called ’ The Department for Living ’ . |
| 3 | And we had put it on fire and it had died down , you could have put it on two or three shovels , when we were leaving the place do you see , and it was all quiet and all all right now , and off we went home . |
| 4 | Sometimes there are just two , as when we were considering the polarisation of light . |
| 5 | when we were looking the other day , he quite fancies it . |
| 6 | ‘ You know we always used candles down here when we were using the workbench , Joe . |
| 7 | Erm on the basis that er we were , when we were setting the , the targets , the time was set by the work study personnel erm and then the operator was able to obtain a trial run on the time given er and if at the end of the work , he was satisfied that he had made the target bonus , or near enough , or if he was satisfied that , given a little extra opportunity to go back onto that job should it come back again in the near future , then he would , he would see clearly that he could make at least fifty percent er which was the target bonus , and probably more . |
| 8 | When we were buying the house , he said he could n't get the mortgage on his salary . |
| 9 | Then , when we were demoing the songs during pre-production , I recorded the different lead breaks on separate tracks . |
| 10 | Keith takes this further : ‘ We were a little limited when we were recording the guitars , limited by the size of the room and the fact that some of the gear was n't working properly , so obstructive forces were at work and this is where compromise comes in ; you 're spending all this time when you know it could be a lot better . ’ |
| 11 | When we were making the recording I have to say it made me feel completely happy ; it is a piece which has such perfection of form . |
| 12 | This is why I was so concerned when we were making the new set of the Beethoven symphonies in 1977 . |
| 13 | ‘ It did n't seem good when we were making the test . |
| 14 | One point I 'd just like to add to what David was just saying there was that when you were talking about those orientation problems , when we were making the film of the children at Brickwall , what was brought home to me very strongly was that these sort of problems can arise in mathematics , as well as in reading . |
| 15 | Well , when we were doing the long-running series , Today 's History , it seemed perfectly sensible to do a programme about women 's history , along with a number of other things which were n't adequately covered . |
| 16 | We used to play it when we were doing the cabaret circuit in southern Ireland . |
| 17 | Some of you know Now way back a couple of weeks ago when we were doing the group seven the one that 's spelt F C L B R I A T. |
| 18 | off with when we were doing the nice simple stuff with positive whole numbers for indexes . |
| 19 | And then it 's the , it was the next pub down , I 've been to The Bull with Jan before when we were on er you know , come home from Wigan or something when we were doing the counters . |
| 20 | Probably when we were emptying the , bits and pieces . |
| 21 | Says Catherine ‘ My flatmates and I were expecting the return of our £780 deposit when we were told the agency had gone bankrupt . |
| 22 | We were not very happy to find that Hillsborough had been chosen and even less so when we were allocated the Leppings Lane End . |
| 23 | What is is this come to light after the event as it were or did you know that was there when we were redoing the machine ? |
| 24 | Well why was n't this why was n't this done when we were redoing the machine for goodness sake . |
| 25 | You know when you shouted earlier when we were changing the room round ? |
| 26 | However he did have a lot of good things to saya bout Leeds when we were winning the title . |