Example sentences of "we [was/were] [v-ing] [art] " 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 two-bedroomed council house with my Pop , and although we only paid thirty bob towards the rent , we had two kids and Malc was earning just £4.10.0 a week as a butcher . |
| 3 | Around that time , we were sharing a lot of material to work toward the Apollo link-up . |
| 4 | We were sharing a table with an elderly lady , a Mrs Harvey . |
| 5 | We would then discuss them and the barristers , as if we were criticizing a play . |
| 6 | Enjoying this recreation , I could not banish the occasional thought that although work at B.P. was undeniably of vital importance , we were living a comparatively sheltered life , and that the real brunt of the war was being borne by the men on the battlefield . |
| 7 | We were passing a film poster and he said , that 's a good film . |
| 8 | We were passing the pilot . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ We were fencing a new corral today . |
| 11 | when we were looking the other day , he quite fancies it . |
| 12 | as I say erm we 've got those but we were looking the other day and were quite amazed at how many different flowers there are out . |
| 13 | ‘ We were using a 2,000 watt PA — barely big enough for a pub gig — and agreed to finish at 10pm . |
| 14 | About the middle of the month Nils discovered metal fatigue in two of the seacocks , the worst being the inflow to the heads , which meant that for all of a week , till we could slip yet again and fit replacements , we were using a good old-fashioned shit bucket . |
| 15 | Now we were using a rather old radio set at the time called a TR9 that was not one of the better things that our radio and radar boffins produced for us in the early days of RT air-to-ground and vice-versa . |
| 16 | We were using the UK schedule when we said to expect them by the end of this month . |
| 17 | ‘ You know we always used candles down here when we were using the workbench , Joe . |
| 18 | So this T ratio on income elasticity is for the bit right and if we were using the five percent or ten percent as our sort of cut off point , we 'd actually discard income from our consumption , from our demand function . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She said : ‘ Leo went to answer it because we were expecting a constituency worker with some papers . |
| 21 | And they 'd only be significant if we were expecting a significant disproportion anyway |
| 22 | We were expecting a visitor at half-past ten , and I wondered whether Holmes would finish his breakfast before our visitor arrived . |
| 23 | We were expecting a man , do n't forget . |
| 24 | ‘ We were expecting the go-ahead , ’ says the BBC , ‘ but suddenly they all said no , without a reason . ’ |
| 25 | We were expecting the American model to arrive in Europe with pleasurable anticipation , accepting its inevitability . |
| 26 | ( Perhaps this was where the first shock to people in the field arose 0 as one said , ‘ we were expecting an all-singing Branson man and what we got was , although he could be very charming , a quiet , distinctly unvibrant and very determined person ’ . ) |
| 27 | As we were pitching the tents , a herd of buffalo wandered by , this time plainly visible , less than 500 yards away . |
| 28 | By the time we were packing the chutes we were both hooked and planning another trip . |
| 29 | However , the basic grammatical distinctions here are the categories of first , second and third person , If we were producing a Componential analysis ( for which see Lyons , 1968 : 470-81 ) of Pronominal systems , the features that we seem to need for the known systems would crucially include : for first person , speaker inclusion ( + 5 ) ; for second person , addressee inclusion ( + A ) ; and for third Person , speaker and addressee exclusion ( - S , A ) ( see Burling , 1970 : 14-17 ; Ingram , 1978 ) . |
| 30 | We were producing an annual report |