Example sentences of "we [was/were] [v-ing] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I immediately gestured to the Hurricanes to carry on to Malta by themselves as we were ditching and we turned for the coast ourselves , losing height all the way . |
| 2 | ‘ We could say we were passing and we saw something suspicious , so no , that wo n't do . ’ |
| 3 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 4 | One lady thought we were turfing and she said could we turf the lawn for her ? |
| 5 | It 's one of the longest-running fights we have and we thought we were winning and we got lazy . ’ |
| 6 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 7 | We were talking and I heard myself say , " It must have been a very terrible experience , being with those Apaches . " |
| 8 | and the other chap that brought it round was very nice and we were talking and she said we worked at Panasonic and I said to him said yes , and I , I said oh I know somebody who works for Panasonic , and she said oh they probably know each other and she told me . |
| 9 | But er no , we were talking and she said if I give you the money you wo n't go and spend it on the |
| 10 | So umm we was chatting and I said oh it 's your birthday on Sunday . |