Example sentences of "we [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But erm and then we 've got still , we , we were looking we 've still got holly with berries |
| 2 | Yeah you see , well when we were looking you see so many and you think ooh that looks nice , ooh that 's nice but some of them are just so squadgy and well nice if you , if that 's how you want to sit |
| 3 | He does n't think that widening the carriageway on the corner of Road and Road will be very sensible , but that was n't what we were suggesting , we were suggesting I think on er Avenue rather than so we 'll have to write back and tell him . |
| 4 | So you 're doing exactly what we were telling you to do a few weeks ago , that you had to er take money out of reserves or you had to cut down on the level of services if you were to avoid putting that thirty four pounds on the council tax bills this year . |
| 5 | At a coffee morning recently , we were discussing what makes a house a home . |
| 6 | We thanked him and as we were leaving he added that we could leave all the press arrangements to him . |
| 7 | Just as we were leaving he turned up in the hallway . |
| 8 | And all I ken was that we got word that there was to be a school trip and that we were leaving I forget what tie in the morning , and going down to see the German ships . |
| 9 | And then we used to call them because that 's where we were feeding them do you see . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't want to criticise the officials and we have to abide by what they say , but from where we were sitting it looked like a strange decision . ’ |
| 11 | He died on the way down while we were carrying him to pit bottom . |
| 12 | Well , they 're right , but with what we were doing we wanted the containment of a mono mix to be even more contained . |
| 13 | It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit . |
| 14 | So situations are reviewed and we do look at monitored traffic flows for example , we do look at our justifications and if there are reasons for a change we can go back , so it 's not irreversible by any means , that is the current committed preferred route however and I did n't want to give an indication that by changing the diagram we were saying everything 's opened up again , cos clearly we 've reached a stage that the County Council 's declared it 's a preferred route and that 's |
| 15 | Yeah , we were saying I bet George really regrets |
| 16 | well God help her she could n't er , at the end , she could n't eat at all and we were forcing her to eat and she was n't eating at all . |
| 17 | . And then as we were beating you see , inside , through the bushes and all , and a pheasant got up , and we used to shout , , do you see , for them to know that he was coming . |
| 18 | We were talking I think this is the thing about clawback , er this year our erm receipts taken into account are two point three eight million as opposed to last year er this is taken into account we drew four hundred and seventy five thousand , that 's a huge jump erm the government by in telling us we can send this er this er what I call minuscule carrot erm this year er the capital receipts from November last year until December next year erm a anyone had undoubtedly for most of that back in the in in the use er er a grant and I think it , as the government have actually kept extremely quiet on this subject , that seemed to be the scenario that seems most likely to happen . |
| 19 | It was while we were deciding what to do that your policeman turned up with the news . ’ |
| 20 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 21 | ‘ We were asking them to play the main role in caring for their children , but they felt their authority was being undermined by the assessments . |
| 22 | we was watching him go and change before . |