Example sentences of "we [was/were] [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also talked about the need to be able to control this vastly more complex new environment as if we were controlling a mainframe . |
| 2 | We were sharing a table with an elderly lady , a Mrs Harvey . |
| 3 | Around that time , we were sharing a lot of material to work toward the Apollo link-up . |
| 4 | We would then discuss them and the barristers , as if we were criticizing a play . |
| 5 | We were passing a film poster and he said , that 's a good film . |
| 6 | We were passing the pilot . |
| 7 | After each flight we were picked up on little points , such as our positioning or the way we were holding the glove : too high or too low , the wrong angle . |
| 8 | ‘ You know we always used candles down here when we were using the workbench , Joe . |
| 9 | But we found we were sawing a lot of stuff up , was no good for the slate making , you know it it 's got to be good for slate making , a lot of veins and lots of muck in 'em . |
| 10 | We were expecting a man , do n't forget . |
| 11 | She said : ‘ Leo went to answer it because we were expecting a constituency worker with some papers . |
| 12 | We were expecting a visitor at half-past ten , and I wondered whether Holmes would finish his breakfast before our visitor arrived . |
| 13 | ‘ We were expecting the go-ahead , ’ says the BBC , ‘ but suddenly they all said no , without a reason . ’ |
| 14 | If we said we were in favour of the teaching of grammar , some teachers would think we were advocating a return to old-fashioned exercises in parsing and clause analysis . |
| 15 | As we were debating the height of a horse and rider , Elaine Stewart turned up — on horseback ! |
| 16 | This is not a book about the experience of watching them , a collection of weird scenes inside the cinema : ‘ We were chewing the fat , telling stories about peculiar things that had happened to us at the cinema , trying to top each other . |
| 17 | But that brings us back to the point we were stressing a moment ago , if the goods are faulty you 're entitled to money back , a cash refund . |
| 18 | ‘ This only aroused so much attention because of the press reports that we were meeting the Broederbond . ’ |
| 19 | Rudy were n't about because we were building the conservatory , we were off to Spain the next day |
| 20 | Sometimes there are just two , as when we were considering the polarisation of light . |
| 21 | ‘ The only thing they did n't say was that I must be pregnant because we were buying a house . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ The only thing they did n't say was that I must be pregnant because we were buying a house , ’ Kylie joked . |
| 23 | Just what you or I would say if we were buying a car ! ) |
| 24 | When we were buying the house , he said he could n't get the mortgage on his salary . |
| 25 | Had a laugh last night we were laying the carpet and I was laying it , I cut it off see where it is you ca n't fit , ca n't fit it under the doorsteps |
| 26 | We were discussing the order of Henry VIII 's wives when suddenly Nigel started to make extraordinary labial noises , like a baby . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | We were discussing the necessity of spending the night in the station waiting-room when we saw a taxi . |
| 29 | We were discussing the probability of Nerina 's essays being all her own work : or whether someone 's fronting her . |
| 30 | To show how it worked , he ran it lightly around my producer while we were discussing the shape of the interview . |