Example sentences of "we [was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were hanging about for 19 hours altogether . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We were living out of a hat dramatising dirty jokes . |
| 3 | We were living quite near a saddler 's shop in Debenham , and I was always interested in it . |
| 4 | He said we were holding on to the ball , but we wanted it to come out . |
| 5 | The ceiling had been removed and we were looking up at where the roof of the house once had been . |
| 6 | So we were looking around for interesting stuff to push — sounds like drugs , eh ? — he-he-he ! — and someone mentions Walter Machin . |
| 7 | ‘ When we were looking around for a royal to open the centre , we were promised as soon as someone was available for a royal visit , we would get one , ’ said Peter Carberry , chairman of Darlington Mind . |
| 8 | We were looking forward to gorging ourselves , but the buyer was a restaurateur and his chef had skinned it so cleanly that there was n't enough flesh for a sandwich ) . |
| 9 | We were looking forward to our walk but did n't want the holiday to end . |
| 10 | We were looking forward to the vacation , to Christmas , to what you called ‘ New Year 's ’ . |
| 11 | But we had only a month in Borneo and after just three days — rather than the recommended three weeks — relaxing in Miri , the capital of Sarawak , we were looking forward to getting down to some trekking , the purpose of the trip . |
| 12 | When our 'plane touched down at Ibiza Airport , we were looking forward to a couple of weeks in the sun , hoping that the children would be amused and we could just relax . |
| 13 | ‘ We were looking forward to going seven points clear for Christmas but four will do for me at this stage . ’ |
| 14 | He was n't here very much , as you know , but we were looking forward to the end of his army service and then we would have settled here . ’ |
| 15 | We were looking forward to a meal and a quiet evening in Dover when a radio message via Dover Coastguards informed us that another suspect vessel had been spotted heading west through the Straits after sailing from Belgium where she had given the local customs a false destination in Sweden for a large consignment of spirits loaded . |
| 16 | That 's why we were looking forward to the Family Day . |
| 17 | We were looking forward to some exercise of rowing , but typically when we arrived , we found they had prepared a gondola-like craft ( of a kind emperors used to go in ) on which we were meant to sit and be gently punted around while we sedately drank tea . |
| 18 | He talked about Fitzroy , the naval officer who had carried out the first detailed survey of the waters we were looking down on , and of Darwin , who had joined Fitzroy in the Beagle for a second voyage in which the survey had been completed , followed by the long voyage home via the Galapagos and other islands , including New Zealand . |
| 19 | We were looking down into a little valley like a green cup in the hills . |
| 20 | One day we were at the top of the highest hill on the island , and we were looking out to sea . |
| 21 | with a s as we were picking up from last week , a c a c in , in a sense that land reform is , is already taking place , there is this sort of groundswell from the masses that to move beyond the , the moderate policy and that is then formalized in the May the fourth directive which marks like the return to land reform going back to and then y y y y you 've got the implementation of that May the fourth directive and then out of a very difficult position in nineteen forty seven when they , they are under attack from the Kuomintang and i in the spring of nineteen forty seven is actually taken by Kuomintang . |
| 22 | We were riding back to Stratford in the spring of 1613 and stopped for the night at the Crown Inn in Oxford . |
| 23 | Yes , that meant we were earning less in real terms after taking inflation into account but at least we still had a job at the end of it . |
| 24 | ‘ We were acting jointly with the police , ’ he said , ‘ having received information which pertained to potential offences against children ’ . |
| 25 | An hour later we were locking out of Swansea once more . |
| 26 | And carry on just as if er we were proceeding immediately after the proposed excellent introduction and as if the intervening weeks just had n't occurred . |
| 27 | Rather like the children we were discussing earlier in this chapter it is possible to meet elderly people who have achieved a serenity of understanding and/or faith that supports them utterly as they develop the skill of coming towards the end of their life . |
| 28 | We were slowing down for lunch and lack of fitness , and after traversing 200 feet of horizontal ridge and tricky gendarmes , we found a terrace in the sun below the final flawless tower and sucked on soggy oranges . |
| 29 | Soon after the match we were strolling companionably through the handsome streets of the town , past a striking collection of houses and shops built from the mellow , biscuit-coloured local stone . |
| 30 | No that 's Dorothy , is n't it , the one that goes we were strolling along on moonlight bay , so you could hear the clouds singing you stole my heart moonlight bay . |