Example sentences of "we were [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were engaged at the fishing , signore . |
| 2 | We were engaged at the time on a pre-disturbance survey of HMS Hazardous , a man-of-war which sank in November 1706 . |
| 3 | They felt it would be a good idea if they extended these ideas to the subject of physics , and we were asked at the university to try for the very first time to run a set of these master classes for children aged thirteen to fourteen in physics , to see if we could transmit some of the excitement and pleasure of doing physics to children at that crucial stage in their scientific development in schools . |
| 4 | But that was in Lincolnshire , where we were living at the time . |
| 5 | Trying to pull us both up short she started on a lecture on the foetal damage caused by nicotine , but neither of us was listening ; we were looking at a memory . |
| 6 | We were looking at a plant which was a little like cow parsley but smaller , its leaves more feathery . |
| 7 | Cast your minds back , last week we were looking at the relationship between price elasticity of demand and marginal revenue , and what that relationship could tell us about er prices and total revenue in an industry . |
| 8 | On our first night in France , exhausted after a ferry crossing , we just happened to fetch up in this little village on the Loire , in a hotel on the second floor of a hotel where , indeed , we opened the shutters — and we were looking at the west end of the Romanesque Abbey of St Benoit sur Loire , which is a most striking church where the remains of the saint are interred in a little casket in the crypt . |
| 9 | ‘ We were looking at the issue but there was no commitment from us , ’ said a senior British official . |
| 10 | Previously we were looking at the way in which the colour order for pattern is decided by the Creation 6 program and took a pattern all the way through to the ‘ Knit a pattern ’ menu , ready to transfer directly across to the machine console . |
| 11 | Erm we approached the first project we were looking at the information we had available er , looking at the strength of the work a lot of information As you can see the er and , and looking at the er a definite lack of |
| 12 | Last week , for example we were looking at the mind boggling distances that we encounter when we journey across the universe . |
| 13 | And I was in a ca , er school over the summer holidays and er , we were looking at the design and technology and the point was that they got ta design and make some components , and realise I 'm talking about , you know , six , seven , eight year old , mixed girls and boys theirselves , and it was ra rather heart-warming to see where the way these youngsters react . |
| 14 | We were separated at the time — the woman in the photographs is Phoebe . |
| 15 | And that 's all anybody got was section six , this dreaded section six which we were taught at the end of the year ! |
| 16 | A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years . |
| 17 | We were greeted at the hotel with several messages from the airport . |
| 18 | Her description of my flat is one that I had difficulty in recognising : ‘ We were greeted at the door by Arnold 's housekeeper , Miss Roberts . |
| 19 | About an hour later it arrived but we were standing at the bar when we had er ordered it . |
| 20 | When I annoyed him he would punish me by economising on whatever it was we were doing at the time . |
| 21 | It was partly because these artificial agglomerations soon broke up that we were left at the finish with a lot of little scraps , which nobody , when not talking through the back of his head , could mistake for potential nations . |
| 22 | If we were to look at the balance sheets of these other banks , we should find that their customers ' deposits had increased and that this increase was matched on the asset side by an increase in their operational balances at the Bank of England . |
| 23 | ‘ This bears out what we were saying at the time . ’ |
| 24 | My dad 's friend though okay cos we were in the back of this car when we were shooting at the enemy okay ? |
| 25 | Quite why we were undressed at the time is a mystery , though I do recall your mother being uncharacteristically excitable and an unseemly display of mirth by the ambulance men . |
| 26 | There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing . |
| 27 | But spending that hundred thousand pounds as we were told at the time , would only part solve the problem . |
| 28 | We were woken at the crack of dawn by the pitter patter of seagulls as they pecked for their breakfast . |
| 29 | The journey went on and on — before long we were travelling at a walking pace , and I and the few other passengers were anxiously clearing the condensation from the windows and peering into the murk in an effort to see where we were . |
| 30 | We were laughing at the Sun this morning , had a picture of Neil Kinnock 's head in the light bulb and it said , could the last person out of Britain please turn the light off after them . |