Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The last time I went to see a specialist about my knee , I was ready to pack it in if he 'd told me I was facing another year out . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course the poetry 's no good , ’ grumbled a friend to whom I was praising this volume . |
| 3 | I got about halfway , and then wished for a spurt of invention that did n't depend upon one strident clown shaking a furious finger at someone who was standing two feet behind him . ’ |
| 4 | No no they went the other way I they were walking that way I was walking along the grass yeah . |
| 5 | She had tried everything , including osteopaths , chiropractors , physiotherapy , traction and , finally , pain-killers which she was taking four times a day , every day . |
| 6 | Folly felt almost embarrassed at herself for the ease with which she was finding these excuses — and for the fact that she seemed to have slipped into mental first-name terms with this man who was , after all , a stranger . |
| 7 | ‘ The 5% increase in house prices which we were expecting this year would have solved most of our problems , including the brunt of the arrears and repossessions , ’ it says . |
| 8 | The other occasion that we looked that , er a week or so back when he called down Zaccheus , from that tree in which he was hiding last week his judge , Pilate but of all of those interviews and th the many others that we have n't looked at , this surely must one of the strangest , as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need . |
| 9 | My master listened to him half-heartedly , more engrossed in studying a piece of parchment on which he was writing cryptic notes in a cipher even I did not understand . |
| 10 | ‘ No , I 'm not , ’ he said , gazing up to the ceiling , to which he was sending little puffs of cigarette smoke . |
| 11 | Reason told him that was all nonsense ; but reason was being steadily eroded by a terrible unnatural fear over which he was losing all control . |
| 12 | To avoid the trouble she had been obliged to invent a friend , a suicidal woman friend with whom she was staying that night . |
| 13 | ‘ Was n't it you she was teasing that time , when the bees came out ? |
| 14 | That erm it might be wise or advisable , I 'd be interested to hear your views Colin and others perhaps even council procedures , you know on , on how far you can go in checking out er because I mean , you know you get something which tells you what was happening three weeks ago . |
| 15 | I drew this item to the attention of congress last year since when my branch has lost thirty four members to new caps including one who was making good progress and had become a national delegate . |
| 16 | We when we got the song first and recorded we we were talking one day and we were just saying it would be an ideal song for Children in Need you know so we decided that we 'd er donate all the proceeds from this track on the video and album and the concert in Stockport , it 's tomorrow night is n't it ? |
| 17 | What the one we were using last night ? |
| 18 | As Philip Snowden told the House of Commons , increased trade would help to ‘ approximate the Russian system to that of other countries with whom they were having commercial relations . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ When I saw Ivo with a parcel he was about to mail to his wife 's cousin in Karlovy Vary , I told him I was driving that way , and that I 'd drop it into the shop where Edita 's cousin works if he wished . ’ |
| 20 | We have a friendly hug and I tell her I was laying three places anyway . |
| 21 | Topaz clawed Andrew 's back , silently begging him to satisfy the ravenous craving within her which was reaching unbearable proportions . |
| 22 | she says the hum , and then she was telling us when she brought the tape back the other day one of her interviews was telling her she was interviewing this man s er out of , out of the blue take off all your clothes please . |
| 23 | What did she have to say when you told her you were taking another woman on this little ‘ business ’ trip ? ’ |
| 24 | it was him we were laughing this morning |
| 25 | er the air force , the German air force , aye , they had a go as well , they they they they they they they were providing all sorts of er er strafing and bombing , er comma . |
| 26 | Instinct told him he was passing some kind of test . |
| 27 | Meanwhile there was Keelan Lambert with whom he was developing some hind of tentative relationship . |
| 28 | His original crime was allegedly that he was plotting to bring 20,000 French soldiers into Ireland and trying to raise a further army by levying a charge on the poverty stricken clergy of Ireland among whom he was doing mighty works in reviving the Catholic faith . |
| 29 | Even when we were not even looking like fouling them he was giving free kicks against us . |
| 30 | In it I was crossing Old Carrots , coming towards the house , a stick in one hand , the other pushed into my hair . |