Example sentences of "we [was/were] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father was in the army , we were living in the country , and she stayed and worked in London . |
| 2 | It seemed as if we were flying in the 1930s . |
| 3 | " We were reading in the London Times that some kind of boat was sunk on the Thames the other day . |
| 4 | We were leaving in the morning . |
| 5 | It felt , as we struggled up the last , steepest stage of the hillside , that we were swimming in the white light of the sun . |
| 6 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
| 7 | As we were sitting in the station waiting-room , waiting for the train to Zaragoza , he took my hand and wept . |
| 8 | We were sitting in the small , side bar in the Nashville . |
| 9 | We were sitting in the Lipp . |
| 10 | We were sitting in the window embrasure looking out over the laurustines , cupressus and other seemingly indestructible plants . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's nice here in the summer , ’ said Mrs Monro when we were sitting in the pub by a window overlooking the river and the distant fields . |
| 12 | We were sitting in the hall finishing off our meal of light ale , freshly baked bread and strips of salted pork , when the others drifted down to join us . |
| 13 | On Thursday we were taken out to see a revolutionary opera , and it was quite an experience , especially as we were sitting in the 2nd row of the stalls , within ear-splitting distance of the gongs and drums which play a large part in the orchestral accompaniment . |
| 14 | There was no room service and we were breakfasting in the hotel dining-room at a table looking out on to a square adorned by several yuccas and some dusty oleanders . |
| 15 | This is the point we were making in the article . |
| 16 | We were standing in the tiny lobby between the kitchen and the dining room , and she still had the clipboard clasped to her chest . |
| 17 | We were standing in the loft , watching them flying over the fields for half an hour , until darkness fell and we lost sight of them in the gloom . |
| 18 | We were standing in the middle of an amazing nature reserve . |
| 19 | At midday , we were standing in the stern when a voice hailed us from an upper deck . |
| 20 | M ( we were standing in the room ) . |
| 21 | We were standing in the baroque foyer of the hotel , which had been built in the great European hotel age during the peaceful years preceding the first World War . |
| 22 | It was a windy autumn day and we were standing in the market place . |
| 23 | And l and especially yesterday yeah , you know when we were standing in the foyer after school yeah ? |
| 24 | A few years ago , we were walking in the mountains to the south of Loch Tummel , heading for a tiny water called Loch a'Chait , a hard tramp uphill from Lick . |
| 25 | One day when we were walking in the Grange garden , I noticed her crying . |
| 26 | I did not want that , but I believed that the top salary awards were so out of line with what we were proposing in the rest of the public sector that in the real world of industrial relations it made my job infinitely more difficult . |
| 27 | ‘ Now we 'll begin again , ’ said the CEO , ‘ and we will bury all the thinking we were doing in the last meeting and approach everything from a new angle . |
| 28 | Er what I have chosen to do is to do what we were doing in the nineteen eighties , which is to take the simplest measure of the maximum flow and the detrusor pressure at that volume and when we do that , you can see that these patients , instead of being a single group of patients with a single kind of bladder pressure and flow , these patients are all over the map . |
| 29 | And that one we were doing in the meantime . |
| 30 | Actually , that sow Sandra only went to see how we were doing in the rat-race compared to her contemporaries . |