Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be very strange if I stood here saying do n't use a linear script use thought patterns and yet I was reading everything off a linear script would n't it ? |
| 2 | " Now , I was saying something about the fish-shop on Lyons Dock . |
| 3 | ‘ I was doing nothing of the sort ! |
| 4 | ‘ I was doing nothing of the kind , ’ she denied crossly , turning to face him . |
| 5 | However , one afternoon perhaps two weeks after our conversation in my pantry , I was doing something in the library when Miss Kenton came in and said : |
| 6 | And er and I was telling everyone I said , Oh I 'm going to and I was flinging everything over the you know . |
| 7 | But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride . |
| 8 | Cos somebody was saying something about the la the last time they got in , it all went |
| 9 | Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker . |
| 10 | She opened her mouth to suggest that perhaps she could give him dinner at her hotel — and thereby eliminate any possibility of him putting his arm around her in his car — then found that she was suggesting nothing of the sort , but was asking , ‘ Did Mr Gajdusek ask you to invite me out ? ’ and was at once appalled that , Ven all too clearly not far away in her head , she had asked such a thing ! |
| 11 | Living alone with an Aunt Louise who was acting someone with a grievance might , I thought , be rather difficult . ) |
| 12 | London Transport held very strong views in favour of standardization , so when in 1936 , the ex-Croydon cars were due for an annual overhaul and relicensing , they were withdrawn one at a time and replaced by E/1 Class cars between October 1936 and January 1937 . |
| 13 | ‘ They were doing everything by the book . |
| 14 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
| 15 | It was believed someone from the Academy was helping Mann with the finance and distribution of the drugs . |
| 16 | Mrs Maugham would often abuse this garden and the widower 's laziness , with a self-righteous , alarming complacency , saying that it was a scandal and a disgrace , and that it ought not to be allowed : and when one day Clara , exasperated , as she sometimes rashly was , out of her usual silence , asked her what harm it was doing anybody , Mrs Maugham had snapped triumphantly that it was harming everybody in the street , because it helped the weeds to spread . |
| 17 | And there 's , er , I mean it was showing somebody round the other day and we were talking about it and , and erm they 're saying , yeah I mean , you 've got seven urinals there , so let's say you have a busy night , you 're full , I mean that 's when damage gets done when people |
| 18 | Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell . |
| 19 | He was learning something of the dead man 's background , admittedly from a biased witness , but any policeman knows that all witnesses are biased in some degree . |
| 20 | He was constructing something from a foil ash tray when she approached . |
| 21 | Laura gave a low moan as she struggled to sit up , one half of her still almost unconscious mind noticing that Ross must have recently had a shower , since his black hair was still damp and he was wearing nothing but a short white towel about his waist . |
| 22 | He was waving something in the air and laughing . |
| 23 | I walked in there and I can se he had a he had a er some copies and and er he was getting one in the bloody phone ! |
| 24 | He was burning something in a small crucible , watching it bubble . |
| 25 | He did n't even look up , he was doing something with the cafetière . |
| 26 | Giles recalls one remark when Montini was criticizing the De Gasperi Christian Democratic government for inaction while denying that he was doing anything of the kind ( a typical Montini ploy ) : ‘ In political questions the Church has to be general , just as in religious matters she can not afford not to be particular ’ ( ibid. , p. 109 ) . |
| 27 | The trouble was , of course , that among Henry 's sort of person , a rugby-playing surveyor , for example , or the kind of dentist like David Sprott who was n't afraid to get up on his hind legs at a social gathering and talk , seriously and at length , about teeth , he was considered something of a subversive . |
| 28 | The German Commandant had dreamt of a mute Jewish whore and when he was issued one for the duration his cup overflowed . |
| 29 | It was odd , but Greg noticed Bill Clough 's eyes following them sharply : he was saying nothing to the purpose so there was no reason why he should n't watch them , but Greg , following his lead , did wonder whether Hilary 's mutterings were not of a rather different kind from Desmond 's . |
| 30 | He was saying something about the Hamilton house , a question . |