Example sentences of "we [was/were] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | WE were spat on , sworn at and manhandled , but victory at the end of the day was ours . |
| 2 | He said we were holding on to the ball , but we wanted it to come out . |
| 3 | This meant that often we were called on to provide more than one cutter the larger operations when sometimes the whole cutter fleet would be involved in shadowing or static surveillance . |
| 4 | It was our second chance and we were spurred on by some great support . |
| 5 | We were spurred on by great support |
| 6 | And I did have a splendid evening , spending most of the time with a red haired sergeant who seemed to appreciate my sense of humour — in fact , I thought we were getting on so well that I was disappointed when the evening ended and he did n't make any arrangements to see me again . |
| 7 | My Dad came over from England to see how we were getting on . |
| 8 | ‘ We were getting on for ten when we liked it , ’ Finch said . |
| 9 | " The month she conceived we were getting on so badly — I did n't sleep with her , not that month . |
| 10 | We do not send you copies of every letter we write , minutes of every meeting we attend , etc because we assumed you would realise we were getting on with the job . |
| 11 | We were getting on famously by half-way round the second circuit and Dod was digging in to a case of canned lager he 'd hidden under his stool , then Martin said would n't it be a good idea if we actually played something . |
| 12 | Would you believe that he said I 've got to work on the aeroplane this week , I 've got the week off , I 've got to work on the aeroplane , I , you know , I shall be alright , down the airfield , er on the Wednesday he arrived to see how we were getting on , complaining like made because he had n't been able to find where the cottage was , I said but I 'd left you a detailed map , |
| 13 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 14 | Even with Ranteallo 's permission to explore the death-cliffs unaccompanied we felt , on reaching them , that we were trespassing on very haunted ground . |
| 15 | I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on . |
| 16 | No no that one we were playing on certainly was n't the greenest and grassiest |
| 17 | We were sitting on rather low chairs , and he was very tall , so that when he placed himself at my corner his impedimenta were almost on a level with my nose . |
| 18 | He threw me over his shoulder in a judo hold on to the rocks and gravel we were standing on . |
| 19 | Suddenly , as we were walking on , we heard the dogs barking in that frantic , menacing way that could only mean they 'd given chase . |
| 20 | The land we were walking on is part of the Golden Cap estate owned by the National Trust which runs from Lyme Regis to Eype . |
| 21 | Within 30 minutes of receiving EaziLink we were logged on and uploading our copy . |
| 22 | Within 30 minutes of receiving EaziLink we were logged on and uploading our copy . |
| 23 | As working volunteers of a fraternal railway we were taken on the strength of the Llangollen railway for the day , and , clad in our reflective waistcoats , we were conducted along the track , first on foot , then on the ‘ Neptune ’ , a diesel track inspection vehicle . |
| 24 | We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago . |
| 25 | The poem we were working on was one of several left unfinished , but I can quote here the first three verses , for their expression of our condition at that time , our sense of being so close together that we were utterly apart from all else : |
| 26 | The management er sought to change the type of incentive scheme that we were working on . |
| 27 | Cos we were working on about eight hundred pounds a month which is , I du n no , maybe ten thousand pounds a year which |
| 28 | And then , after two years , we were allowed on to the wards in our white coats and we had to erm find out about the patients and initially we were all very slow and we were given two hours to talk to a patient to find out all about them . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , when we were going on about the Universe and all the galaxies and the Big Bang , we talked about gravity forces — between the galaxies — trying to pull them together . |
| 30 | Yes that 's what he told me , he said we were going on to for the rest of the week , eleven hours and then start double shifting Monday . |