Example sentences of "we were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were passing the pilot . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | when we were looking the other day , he quite fancies it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We were using the UK schedule when we said to expect them by the end of this month . |
| 7 | ‘ You know we always used candles down here when we were using the workbench , Joe . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ We were expecting the go-ahead , ’ says the BBC , ‘ but suddenly they all said no , without a reason . ’ |
| 10 | We were expecting the American model to arrive in Europe with pleasurable anticipation , accepting its inevitability . |
| 11 | As we were pitching the tents , a herd of buffalo wandered by , this time plainly visible , less than 500 yards away . |
| 12 | By the time we were packing the chutes we were both hooked and planning another trip . |
| 13 | ‘ We felt we were creating the antinuclear movement from scratch , says Pete Roche , now an editor of SCRAM 's bi-monthly Safe Energy Journal , first published at the time and an invaluable guide to the growth of opposition . |
| 14 | As we were debating the height of a horse and rider , Elaine Stewart turned up — on horseback ! |
| 15 | The second , the second point was that while the J C B was down there we er erm in consultation erm the chairman of those committees , we removed the old concrete base which crumbled whilst we were digging the erm the t the trench for the water pipeline , it was actually crumbling away . |
| 16 | This is not a book about the experience of watching them , a collection of weird scenes inside the cinema : ‘ We were chewing the fat , telling stories about peculiar things that had happened to us at the cinema , trying to top each other . |
| 17 | We were taught the right way to hold the tiller and mainsheet , how to pull the sail in and out and how to ‘ tack ’ — change direction by turning the front of the dinghy into the wind . |
| 18 | Then , when we were demoing the songs during pre-production , I recorded the different lead breaks on separate tracks . |
| 19 | ‘ This only aroused so much attention because of the press reports that we were meeting the Broederbond . ’ |
| 20 | On another occasion we were meeting the Prime Minister 's plane at Cardiff Airport , with only two Gofers in the team that day . |
| 21 | I always felt an affinity with Donna , I thought it was because we were born the same day — ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Then again , if we were to split the feature into 51 parts , the joke could be written-off on a week-by-week basis and any potential liability , laughter-wise , might be spread across two tax periods . |
| 23 | Over the next few years we were to see the terminal in all its stages of construction on our various visits to Scapa Flow and we were to become very familiar with Flotta not only in the earlier days , but later when the terminal was operational and our crews began their real work of checking the large tankers . |
| 24 | Cos I 've been silly in the past , I 've told Evelyn lots of times and we had a new machine , a rapid na nailer , it er nailed er army sho er soles onto the at five hun it used to do three hundred and fifty nails a minute and we m made one just for I er went out on the road , er to five hundred a minute you see , and er we were building the first half a dozen and er er there 's two pawls at the back of the machine |
| 25 | Rudy were n't about because we were building the conservatory , we were off to Spain the next day |
| 26 | Sometimes there are just two , as when we were considering the polarisation of light . |
| 27 | I considered that point during the summer , when we were considering the rules of the scheme which should operate for the current financial year . |
| 28 | When we were buying the house , he said he could n't get the mortgage on his salary . |
| 29 | Little did those of us who were involved in that exercise know that we were laying the foundations for the industrial resurgence of Germany . |
| 30 | Had a laugh last night we were laying the carpet and I was laying it , I cut it off see where it is you ca n't fit , ca n't fit it under the doorsteps |