Example sentences of "when we were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We became good friends and I remember his comments one day when we were discussing the ever-rising cost of living ; Lawren said , wrinkling that high forehead under the white mane of hair , ‘ This high cost of living worries me ; one of these days , if it continues to rise , I 'll have to dip into capital ! ’ |
| 2 | One evening when we were watching the show , I looked around and discovered I was the only person awake in the room . |
| 3 | I considered that point during the summer , when we were considering the rules of the scheme which should operate for the current financial year . |
| 4 | Commodores , Ladies and Gentlemen before we commence the business of the Annual General Meeting I 'd like to remind members of the very great honour that was bestowed upon the Association at the end of last year when we were granted the right to wear the red ensign defi defaced with the crown . |
| 5 | Yesterday , when we were doing the lawn . |
| 6 | No it 's when we were doing the electricity . |
| 7 | Perhaps Mr Woolf had overheard that classic remark by a member of the public who said to me one day when we were negotiating the locks of the Caledonian canal in Venturous , " I did n't know we had Inland Revenue Cutters . " |
| 8 | Some of our personnel visited a Shelduck centrifugal launch site in Holland in 1979 , when we were designing the Falconet system . |
| 9 | Lij Yasu 's restoration would at the least constitute a considerable propaganda success for Turkey ; it might even bring Abyssinia into the war on the side of our enemies , at a time when we were fighting the Germans in East Africa , the Turks in Sinai , Mesopotamia and the Aden Protectorate , and the Dervishes in Somaliland . |