Example sentences of "we were [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were prancing about making a racket in the middle of the night so they had a helicopter up straight away to see what we were up to . ’ |
| 2 | Absolutely I was aware that Graham was very anxious to be involved in this process , er for example he wrote me a note and I think other members and it 's because of those , of those notes that I was anxious that we should inform them of what we were up to and if you want to share any of the papers or agendas please ask . |
| 3 | And that was also why I did n't leave you a note explaining what we were up to as Jeff told me to . |
| 4 | We were up to our necks in running the gallery and it was always ‘ next year ’ . ’ |
| 5 | She said , she turned to Mr Fleming and she said , ‘ Darling , do you mind when we were up at the Uni , and that … |
| 6 | The following morning we were up at 3.00am , accepted slices of bread and jam and joined the line of headtorches walking up the glacier . |
| 7 | We were on remand for about three months and then we were up at the Crown court . |
| 8 | One day we were up at Dunfermline . |
| 9 | We were up on the top floor and Ralph Horton came up to listen to us and was impressed , although I think he was more impressed with David than us . |
| 10 | To know we were up with seven games left to play . |
| 11 | To go one down with nine minutes remaining and with only 10 men , we were up against it . ’ |
| 12 | " There was one very difficult principle that we were up against which I did not really know about to start with … that in accordance with the general surrender everyone was supposed to surrender to the Allied Army against whom they had been fighting . |
| 13 | At the Pitztal FIS downhill , which was held on a high glacier , we were up against none other than Peter Mueller , on the road back from last season 's devastating knee injury . |
| 14 | When we were finally told , it was like the world caving in , but in a dreadful way it was a relief to know what we were up against . ’ |
| 15 | Yeah , we er , we won the , the losers trophy twice , we got first round trophy , got knocked out the first round to go to that , me , half , half the decent teams were knocked out in the first round , you know , we were , we were playing sort of , that , that was , nine times out of ten that was the real cup , I mean we , we were up against the league champions once |
| 16 | M : it is — it is quite good they 've certainly kept within the + em + + preserved it reasonably well or conserved it but we were up in Aberdeen this year for a holiday and we were staying right within the University complex there in Old Aberdeen+ and + oh some of the buildings there are beautiful really they really are nice + but er I was quite impressed with it — it 's the first holiday we 've had up there + |
| 17 | I was able to take controls of the aircraft when we were up in the sky . |
| 18 | Nice is Wendy house , that we got when we were up in Yorkshire were n't it ? |
| 19 | Oh I mean , I , the best one I heard we were up in |
| 20 | And I was very naughty I , I felt like saying well some of their , they , them are n't er do you remember the very last time we were up in the hospital at the waiting area , there was those two nurses that walked up and down |
| 21 | I wished I 'd had a poke round when we were up by the cliff — he probably had a little cave in there behind the brambles . |
| 22 | ‘ I expect it was when we were over in Europe and went to the Derby Eve dinner in London , ’ the elderly woman said . |
| 23 | We were through in minutes . |
| 24 | ‘ Luckily we were on to their plan and switched off the power before we moved in . ’ |
| 25 | We were on to the pudding course by now and I was attacking a delicious crème brûlée with great gusto , while Sally sensibly preferred the fresh fruit salad . |
| 26 | We were on to Dead Lib again . |
| 27 | I thought we were on for charades . |
| 28 | The bemused Parisians did n't know what the fuck we were on about when we asked for the ‘ Adidas Centre ’ in several differing French accents . |
| 29 | Susan Hampshire herself was invited to become a governor , and who knows , might have accepted , had she been able to suss out what we were on about . |
| 30 | ‘ We 've had some success already — turned away more than a dozen chaps , we did , once they understood what we were on about . |