Example sentences of "we [was/were] [verb] something " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet he had photographs of her in every jacket pocket , and they fell out of books at the wrong time and upset Eva ; and when he asked me about Mum , Dad and I had to go into another room , away from Eva , as if we were discussing something disgraceful . |
| 2 | We knew we were experiencing something beyond our understanding . |
| 3 | And he 'd just made a film and , we were watching something |
| 4 | it was a cro , I tell you what , we were playing something tonight , I think it was the last thing before you stopped , and I kept thinking any minute now it 's gon na be Somewhere Over the Rainbow |
| 5 | We spent a day driving round the villages , asking for information , suspecting that we were missing something vital . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , we felt we were missing something , that we were excluded from a wider world . ’ |
| 7 | At the time we were doing withdrawal , which is pointless , but we were doing something . |
| 8 | Perhaps we were doing something right after all . |
| 9 | We , it was when I went to , when I , we were doing something with maps when I was at school and they were trying to find out what , it was the , where the local rates where the money was spent for the local rates and one of projects was taken down the sewage works . |
| 10 | We were doing something me and Billy and Amy . |
| 11 | To speak today of the defence of democracy as if we were defending something which we knew and had possessed for many decades or many centuries is self-deception and sham … |
| 12 | Now we were to try something which , as far as we knew , had n't been offered to the viewers before . |
| 13 | Oh cos we was doing something about yous and Billy . |