Example sentences of "we were [v-ing] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , when we were going up one of the main avenues in the city a lump of thawing snow fell from a tree under which we were passing and hit me on the face . |
| 2 | It did not occur to us that ‘ working in their usual way ’ might prove to be so different from what we were expecting that work on the project would be brought virtually to a standstill . |
| 3 | Me dad said he 's had enough Well , we were debating whether to give it to you or not . |
| 4 | … But while we were discussing and elaborating these problems from every conceivable angle , developments in Europe passed us by . ’ |
| 5 | The business grew steadily and by the time I joined in 1962 we were manufacturing and selling about 20,000 tonnes yearly . |
| 6 | because afterwards I , he had his arm round me when we were leaving and said oh well , I 've really enjoyed this evening , we 'll do it again wo n't we ? |
| 7 | All these species are common migrants which appear in Shetland every year , and I could n't help wondering if any of those we were hearing and seeing may have been feeding in the bushes in my garden a short time before … |
| 8 | Now we were rumbling and petarding up a steep brown-earth road with long , high convent walls on each side , towards a little square with a few dimly lit small shops and pollarded trees like headless ostriches perched on one knobbly leg . |
| 9 | We er went as far as we could without er erm finding that we would have to delete allocations that we were making or produce unrealistic er development sites erm the the figure of er twenty five hectares simply means that we 're ratcheting the the whole thing down to a point at which it ca n't be sustained . |
| 10 | ‘ Just a few hours ago we were dancing and enjoying ourselves but suddenly it had become a dance of death , ’ said a survivor . |
| 11 | Oh we were waiting and waiting in the end we got in the car . |
| 12 | Then , as you say , Dr McDonald visited us in Cambridge , liked what we were doing and announced his intention of setting up an institute here in Cambridge for research into archaeology . |
| 13 | David and I were very close friends and if he was n't happy with what we were doing and wanted to change , I was n't going to argue . |
| 14 | We were gigging and getting well paid for it . |
| 15 | They greeted us royally , obvious of the fact that we were sweating and trembling . |
| 16 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 17 | this is going back must be a few years , we were laughing and figuring sort of , you know , this bloke back of the garage in the end he said we give him the bill and said yeah you can soon run out |
| 18 | That 's why we were chopping and changing because some of you 'd say one thing |