Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 2 | Except , that , except that of course I was doing everything for everybody . |
| 3 | They will recollect the guidelines they were given themselves as children . |
| 4 | A pessimistic interpretation of the findings based on this approach was that the visual cortex had nothing to do with vision , since few , if any , cells in that part of the brain showed any interest in spots of light they were presenting them with . |
| 5 | ‘ He wanted her to go and buy some presentable clothes she could wear to the sort of smart restaurants he was taking her to . ’ |
| 6 | The chip man kept lifting handfuls of soggy potato to his head , but instead of shoving them into a mouth he was plastering them onto the featureless mass , sculpting himself a parrot nose , acromegalic brows and a Kirk Douglas chin . |
| 7 | Nicole , this is Alyssia , the young girl I was telling you about . |
| 8 | ‘ You remember the girl I was telling you about ? |
| 9 | Not this dream you were telling us about , was it ? |
| 10 | Towards the end of the thirteen-year marriage she was treating me as if I was someone the cat had brought home . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's going to show me this museum he was telling me about . |
| 12 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 13 | He told us what sport it was to take her to the ‘ Houtsize ‘ 0use ’ in London , first putting her on the Inner Circle , getting off smartly himself , and leaving her to go round and round until his amusement wore off . |
| 14 | The situation arising from this all-too-common attitude was as follows : in the evening she was placing herself in a situation of maximum temptation as far as diet-breaking was concerned with time on her hands and food and drink all too readily available . |
| 15 | Yes , with , with the wine we were subsidising it by about one fifty last year , shall I put it up to five fifty this year ? for members . |
| 16 | Well the other evening they were showing something on T V , one of these doctors ' , doctors ' practices that are opting out or whatever . |
| 17 | The ore mixed with waste to such an extent that it could not be improved by hand was mixed with other low grade stuff and barrowed to the buckers whose job it was to reduce it to walnut size for delivery to Cornish roll-crushers and then to the stamps . |
| 18 | And the job he was telling her about seemed interesting and desirable . |
| 19 | Everything was happening so fast — he could n't be aware of the crisis he was dragging me towards . |
| 20 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 21 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 22 | The other day I was telling her about something that had happened , crying as I told the story , and she started crying too . |
| 23 | " It 's one of the things I was telling you about . |
| 24 | ‘ That policewoman I was telling you about , ’ she exclaimed over her shoulder . |
| 25 | I could understand how she felt ; I realized that anyone who convinced herself that , when she took the holy biscuit she was uniting herself with God , would find it easy to convince herself that in death she would be united with her daughter . |
| 26 | The woman was holding on to him with one arm , and with the other she was pounding him on the back , very hard . |
| 27 | When Gem was up here the other day she was telling us about one of them teachers who plays computer games instead of giving lessons |
| 28 | I 've I 've got a , a piece of this , this stuff I I bought it a piece sort of square they were selling it off cheap |
| 29 | ‘ You know , ’ she said resentfully , ‘ when Billy was inside he was sharing a landing with some very funny men , and one day he was telling them about that pub he bought with the cellars full of Château d'Yquem not showing off or nothing , just by way of general conversation , and they said , ‘ Nice , is it , with that stuff you lot eat ? |
| 30 | That was until the grid got into proper operation and the then they got nationalized then they they transferred back onto A C. It was to bring it into line to s to keep the town supplied through all the er cables that were were being constructed for D C. They had to bring the A C back to D C. That was converters . |