Example sentences of "we were [verb] [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 | From the moment the parade began we were applauded , and we were cheered every step of the way right up to dispersal at St George 's Hall . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ We were fencing a new corral today . |
| 12 | when we were looking the other day , he quite fancies it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I suspect that if we were to take a sensate tension structure such as the love-hate paradox that lies at the heart of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet theme , we would be able to transpose it into different forms each appropriate to a particular culture , and , provided we had the necessary skill of course , we would be able to do this for all cultures in the world . |
| 15 | The next day , all nine of us were lined up and given our civilian clothes ; we were to take a train to Paris that evening . |
| 16 | If we were to take a formal view of the entailments of such a declarative sentence ( like that , for example , expressed in Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 150f. ) , we would be obliged to accept as entailments a set of sentences which would include the following : |
| 17 | This authority is taking a somewhat different view to that public inquiry than the erm the highways authority er after shire hill er erm so I I think if we were to take a decision tonight it could affect our position at the public inquiry adversely er and I would not want us to get into that situation so I think to some extent er councillor timing on this motions is wrong and we should n't be be er discussing it now . |
| 18 | This means that if we were to take a sufficiently large and completely random sample of households from all income groups , we would expect to find that the negative and positive transitory incomes would just cancel each other out so that the aggregate or average transitory income level ( Y T ) would be equal to zero . |
| 19 | If we were to take the Ramblers Association 's argument to its logical conclusion , every train on the east coast main line would be preceded by a man on foot , carrying a red flag , in case someone wanted to walk in front of the train . |
| 20 | ‘ We were using a 2,000 watt PA — barely big enough for a pub gig — and agreed to finish at 10pm . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We were using the UK schedule when we said to expect them by the end of this month . |
| 24 | ‘ You know we always used candles down here when we were using the workbench , Joe . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She said : ‘ Leo went to answer it because we were expecting a constituency worker with some papers . |
| 28 | And they 'd only be significant if we were expecting a significant disproportion anyway |
| 29 | We were expecting a visitor at half-past ten , and I wondered whether Holmes would finish his breakfast before our visitor arrived . |
| 30 | We were expecting a man , do n't forget . |