Example sentences of "we were [v-ing] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we were looking at each other . |
| 2 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 3 | But likewise we were looking for another project similar to what er Eric and I were involved in with the cage drilling machine . |
| 4 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 5 | Yeah and then we were looking for some carpeting were n't we ? |
| 6 | If we were searching for this record , a comparison with the ‘ key ’ of the first block would be low , and of the second , high . |
| 7 | We were lacking in that department last year . |
| 8 | I think people felt we were aiming for this point , but we never had the opportunity to do it before . |
| 9 | ‘ But within half-an-hour we were firing on all cylinders again . ’ |
| 10 | We were giggling at each other 's pictures and I started to remember the amount of fun we used to have together . |
| 11 | So if we were sitting round this table in ten years time , we would actually be talking about what was commonplace , not what was coming at some distant and far off point ? |
| 12 | And we were dancing on that bit you see . |
| 13 | We were paying for that plane . |
| 14 | Two days before it , however , when we were running through some back moves , my back seemed to lock out and I could n't move freely at all . |
| 15 | We were running in that building er our day to day duties . |
| 16 | ‘ It had been bloody hard because we were sleeping with each other from very early on but we had always agreed not to get physical because I knew we should n't , ’ he said . |
| 17 | We were talking about this when we were talking about that subject on Monday , were n't we ? |
| 18 | But you know the other day we were talking about that tulip thing that 's down by erm Marks and Sparks ? |
| 19 | Remember what we were talking about this morning how things have changed in service in shops |
| 20 | b my wife and I was only discussing it er day before yesterday I think it was , we were talking about it because we were talking about this sort of thing . |
| 21 | It 's like other day , we were talking to this bloke like , and he were on about businesses , says you ca n't underst , oh he said something about finances , how difficult it is to get finance to start a business up and er , he said , I know , he said you ca n't me , he said . |
| 22 | Well , no , we are governed by our Annual General Meeting , but it 's not unrealistic to ask for double figures , because basically we were talking in that vein last year , and of course we eventually settled for 8.8 . |
| 23 | It is two years since we were talking in those terms , and the defence policy of every party is now under review . |
| 24 | The weather was very rough and it was evident that we were heading into another part of the blizzard ; white cascades of billowy snow swirled around us , as the aircraft roared , bumped and bucketed towards our goal some 400 miles to the west . |