Sentence examples for we were reflecting on from inspiring English sources

"I don't think we were reflecting on that," he said.

In December 2004, when we chose Andrew Flintoff as our 'man of the year', we were reflecting on a remarkable 12 months for the all-rounder - a period in which he had begun at last to fulfil his boundless promise, dominating both Test and one-day matches with his power and personality - as well as looking forward to the Ashes battle to come.

That evening, we were reflecting on the potential ramifications of the ruling, hanging out in Matt's condo watching TV when we heard what sounded like a gunshot.

I was driving my 9-year-old son to school, and we were reflecting on how the year has been so far when he said something that really surprised me.

"Embedding purpose into your organization is a critical issue for every kind of business operating today," PwC Global Chairman Bob Moritz recently told me while we were reflecting on the report's findings.

And – while we're reflecting on heroes – can I just mention one of mine: Sir David Attenborough.

"Language provides us with this tool to gain distance from our own experiences when we're reflecting on our lives.

We consulted on the green paper on a kind of mechanism [to set future changes] and we are reflecting on that".

"We haven't addressed yet other types of forward guidance as other central banks have done and we are reflecting on it," he added.

We tend to be mindful of all the things that can go wrong, not so much when we are reflecting on our own lives, but when we are opinionating about the world as a whole.

But next time we are reflecting on the reliability of a given number or ranking, we should think not only about whether we trust it, but of how it may persuade us to do certain things.