Example sentences of "we were [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I live in France now , and I 'm married to a Frenchman , but my introduction to drama was through an amateur dramatic society in Stanmore , where we were living at one time . |
| 2 | Hellen and I had tea with them there in 1954 when we were living in nearby Cobham . |
| 3 | We evaluated erm the neurological feature detection , the work of grandmother cells and we said that in fact that probably was n't what was happening , we were looking at spatial frequencies instead . |
| 4 | And we were looking at each other . |
| 5 | Erm , when we were looking at all the markers like erm , |
| 6 | We were looking at that last night . |
| 7 | Now if we go back to two years ago on the question of whether or not we should accept erm almost do n't think you 'll get any reply the professional advice of an officer , two years ago or so we had the professional advice of an officer , we were looking at yearly report of the er inspector and |
| 8 | ‘ Well ’ — I hated myself for responding to his interest — ‘ we were looking at different kinds of organisational hierarchy and how to construct optimal decision-making procedures in corporate contexts . ’ |
| 9 | Tt er if , if , if you go back to some of the things we were looking at last term er er this idea of commercialization tt er argue that the south was a very different type of country to the north , that it is commercialized at least to a much greater extent |
| 10 | The file we were looking at earlier ? |
| 11 | Now if we were looking at these the other way up right if somebody gave you the triangle |
| 12 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 13 | Malcolm said yesterday : ‘ We were looking for six runs to win the game . |
| 14 | I 'll get in touch , I 'll give her a ring , because we actually , we were looking erm out of the twelve of you altogether we were looking for six of you to actually have your feet washed on Maundy Thursday evening at the , at the , the mass at the service on Maundy Thursday evening . |
| 15 | that , we went up there as in actual fact we were looking for certain place when er the postcard we had was n't it , was n't the cows given us trouble and we went |
| 16 | ‘ We were looking for 12 matches or even 16 , ’ David Brook , the club president , said . |
| 17 | In the analysis of linguistic variation , therefore , we were looking for fine details of variation-variation that shows internal patterning within the speech community , but which may have no social meaning for outsiders — and in the first application for funding it was specified that the research was intended to extend the quantitative methodology to a type of community that had not been studied in this way before . |
| 18 | But likewise we were looking for another project similar to what er Eric and I were involved in with the cage drilling machine . |
| 19 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 20 | Yeah and then we were looking for some carpeting were n't we ? |
| 21 | We were looking through that and erm Mr was the first er County Librarian in East Suffolk |
| 22 | erm it 's an old one and it 's called Fancy Fish and we were sorting our videos out to list 'em and then we 'll make a list and then we 'd let you have and then if you want a video and that , you know what you got and we were looking through this Fancy Fish and it 's erm I do n't know if you remember it , it shows an open show at Oxford |
| 23 | When the first well Aye one night we were speaking about this . |
| 24 | We were acting as loyal supporters in defending the player and would do the same with any player at Cliftonville FC . |
| 25 | We were acting in good faith , of course , and I ca n't imagine that anyone is going to be difficult now she is gone . |
| 26 | But we were so hopelessly naïve we did n't realise we were buying at retail prices . |
| 27 | If we were searching for this record , a comparison with the ‘ key ’ of the first block would be low , and of the second , high . |
| 28 | We filmed on the train to London and I was told at one stage that we were proceeding at one hundred miles an hour . |
| 29 | I hope we were n't discussing what I thought we were discussing on that |
| 30 | Messages are flying through the ether , coming from every side , like we were listening to twenty stations at once . |