Example sentences of "we were [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason was that we were touching three million unemployed at that particular point in time , and it was felt that the best way of making an impact was to highlight this in the way in which it was done . |
| 2 | We were raided two nights ago — nomads , your son said . |
| 3 | " I frequently pleaded with the federated owners to make peace with Wilson and many were inclined to do so , but the weight of prejudice clung to the Federation as a whole and the Executive Committee refused to recognise him , although we were wasting hundreds of thousands of pounds in fighting him " . |
| 4 | • With Valentine 's day so near to the closing date , we were expecting hundreds of soppy cards , bouquets of flowers , bottles of champagne and heart-shaped chocolates to come flooding into the office — there must have been a postal strike . |
| 5 | It seemed to us that April that we were seeing one of the results of total permissiveness in a rather comely young man and woman , ill-educated , but neither of them stupid , on trial at Chester Assizes for multiple murder . |
| 6 | If the industry had gone along with the sort of scheme that we were urging three or four years ago , it would be well geared up to meeting the challenge now , instead of being caught short by its friends — who I am sure the industry feels have in some way betrayed it . |
| 7 | We were sent hundreds of letters of thanks like this one from an eminent diplomat , Sir Ashley Clarke : |
| 8 | We were to see three more pairs that day . |
| 9 | And the thing is we were buying forty forty eights we that we were u reusable for the plant when we need 'em . |
| 10 | Yet , when one looks back , it all seems dim and forgotten already , except for the silly little incidents which stick in one 's mind , such as when we were dive-bombed one morning and the sergeant-major fell into his porridge ! … |
| 11 | We were jammed eight to a compartment , smoking , playing cards and drinking beer ; the lights were on and sleep was completely impossible . |
| 12 | The the scheduler , Pauline I ca n't make her out , she seems to be fairly u straight , organized but it had got to the situation where I mean I did n't like it but it happened , we were supplying six months of product and then was supplying six months . |
| 13 | I 'm trying to put an entry in this cell , in I eight one nine two , but we ca n't because we were require thirty three thousand bytes and we only have eleven thousand bytes left . |
| 14 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 15 | We were given thirty days to come up with our designs . |
| 16 | And then , after two years , we were allowed on to the wards in our white coats and we had to erm find out about the patients and initially we were all very slow and we were given two hours to talk to a patient to find out all about them . |
| 17 | We were given 10 minutes to prepare , then had to give an interview of 2 minutes . |
| 18 | We were given three weeks to make ready and our curiosity was heightened when four American cypher sergeants from Headquarters Squadron , Middle East US Forces , were attached to our unit . |
| 19 | A leading City analyst described the move as ‘ very sensible — just the thing to kill off all the rumours about a convertible issue we were hearing six weeks ago ’ . |
| 20 | On a holiday trip last year we were averaging 40 mpg on cheap French diesel fuel ( another bonus point for the diesel if you like to take your car abroad ) in the superbly comfortable big Citroen . |
| 21 | He explained : ‘ I did it because we were beaten 3-1 in the practice match . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I did it because we were beaten 3-1 in the practice match . ’ |
| 23 | We were playing three piece at the time and we thought , ‘ What are we going to do ? ’ |
| 24 | So we were playing three games every six days and that just does n't allow enough recovery time from injuries . |
| 25 | In 1981-82 , 3,800 tonnes were imported , and by 1987-88 we were importing 80,000 tonnes , thereby almost becoming one of the major toxic dustbins of the world . |
| 26 | When we got to University of East Anglia we were set seven tasks . |
| 27 | He and I were of course aware that we were making two assumptions which were obviously incorrect . |
| 28 | Then we were interrogated one by one : ‘ Why did you demonstrate ? |
| 29 | Now , when I started to ba er buy my house , we are paying , we were paying twenty seven pound a month for the upkeep of the building , it 's now went up to thirty four pound twenty two pence a month . |
| 30 | at the time , I said we were , I was doing sixty hours a week in me car , we were doing six nights a week cabaret and he was driving all day |