Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] i [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no , it seemed to be the local name for the twenty kilo fish which was giving me a hard time , though later someone else called it a kingfish . |
| 2 | At 60,000 feet it was harder to tell which was giving me the better high : the puppy poo , the Beastie Boys album or the Cessna . |
| 3 | And you were telling me the other clubs men men had |
| 4 | I thought you were calling me the bearded wonder then . |
| 5 | She was telling me the other day . |
| 6 | Mrs Goreng presented the idea like she was doing me a big favour , giving me the chance to teach the future malai President . |
| 7 | She was berating me the whole time . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll have your name , and I 'll see that lady who was telling me the other day that Brownie girls do n't raid orchards . ’ |
| 9 | That same day he told me , as if he were giving me a magnificent present , that he thought he could pull strings and have me posted with him . |
| 10 | Anyway , just after Christmas this guy says er I still want the hotel so Peter said well you better put something down , you ge , better get something so he he went and put fifty thousand as a deposit on it and then said his legal advisers would be in touch and they had a month went by and they never heard anything , so Peter rang up , he was telling me the other day , er , he rang up yeah , go , he does n't want it you know ? |
| 11 | Until the mishap he was giving me a great feel and I was delighted how he was going in the blinkers . ’ |
| 12 | Now he s he thought he was giving me the same stuff , I did n't know what I was on , all I knew was I felt twice as bad . |
| 13 | ‘ All I do know is that when we were on the way here he was asking me a great many questions about what went on in the village . |