Example sentences of "we [vb past] [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the night he died , the Saturday , we 'd been fishing all day , just the two of us . |
| 2 | Yeah , well even Laura like she eats salad at school like you know , but erm , she 's got erm , what did we have the other night cos we 'd been eating semi semi Mediterranean food this week |
| 3 | ‘ We 'd been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together . |
| 4 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |
| 5 | Recently we 'd been taking ten minutes a night off it in order to have more time in the pub . |
| 6 | We 'd been practising hard and were having a rest , just standing around and the Head Girl was smoking . |
| 7 | Halfway outbound in the hold the scheduled traffic for which we 'd been waiting landed , and we swooped down , just catching the ILS . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'd been walking all day , brushing through great webs of giant spiders , and at one stage I looked back at Adrian Arbin , who I was with , and it was like a horror film — his face was running with blood , blood running into his eyes , down his neck , staining his shirt . |
| 9 | It was pretty fucking annoying even if it was n't ; I really wanted to get the bastard because we 'd been having this stupid argument before we 'd started about how greed really was good and how William had been so disappointed at how poorly the argument was put across by the Gekko character in Wall Street . |
| 10 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 11 | We 'd been playing safe for our own survival , and scores of heterosexuals went unchallenged in their continued acts of heterosexism . |
| 12 | The 135 hp engine was used to operating on 80 octane fuel but we had been using 130 octane avgas . |
| 13 | Exactly where we had been swimming that morning . |
| 14 | Mr Cattell said : ‘ We had been expecting bad news but had no idea where the axe would fall . |
| 15 | We had been studying all of the information we had collected in an effort to reconstruct the events of that operation . |
| 16 | We had been waiting all Genesis for words like those . |
| 17 | My father grilled us about what we had been doing all week . |