Example sentences of "we were [v-ing] a " 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 fencing a new corral today . |
| 9 | ‘ We were using a 2,000 watt PA — barely big enough for a pub gig — and agreed to finish at 10pm . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She said : ‘ Leo went to answer it because we were expecting a constituency worker with some papers . |
| 14 | And they 'd only be significant if we were expecting a significant disproportion anyway |
| 15 | We were expecting a visitor at half-past ten , and I wondered whether Holmes would finish his breakfast before our visitor arrived . |
| 16 | We were expecting a man , do n't forget . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | We were seeing a steady growth in fee income of around 15% in the Newport office , and when we made the decision to move , there was n't a single indicator that we might see a downturn . |
| 19 | If we said we were in favour of the teaching of grammar , some teachers would think we were advocating a return to old-fashioned exercises in parsing and clause analysis . |
| 20 | Well Mr er Deputy Speaker I er do n't wish to er follow the honourable member of one of my er neighbours but I actually think it 's really part of grown up politics to ensure that the political opinion of a nation is adequately represented in the forums of that nation whether it be in this place or in the European er parliament and to that extent I make no bones about it that erm I wish that we were debating a different electoral system and Mr Deputy Speaker going back to the minister 's introduction erm it is a fact , I did n't wish to intervene because I did n't , it 's a short debate and I did n't want to take up er extra time , but it is a fact is it not that our electoral system unique across Europe means that our deadline as opposed to what the French are going to do is different to all the other member states . |
| 21 | I thought we were debating A |
| 22 | But that brings us back to the point we were stressing a moment ago , if the goods are faulty you 're entitled to money back , a cash refund . |
| 23 | Ellen had bought some melon and coffee on her way to the boatyard and we were eating a late breakfast in Wavebreaker 's cockpit . |
| 24 | Realising we were meeting a real need in our ageing area , we have embarked on a ‘ Living with loss ’ training programme to equip several of our church for long term bereavement counselling . |
| 25 | We have so far discussed these themes as though we were constructing a wholly new kind of urban sociology . |
| 26 | We thought we were building a new Jerusalem , but these people seem hell bent on destroying Babylon . |
| 27 | ‘ The only thing they did n't say was that I must be pregnant because we were buying a house . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The only thing they did n't say was that I must be pregnant because we were buying a house , ’ Kylie joked . |
| 29 | Just what you or I would say if we were buying a car ! ) |
| 30 | Well , I think Frank mentioned er , that we were forming a T V division and I think , Frank you might like to say more . |