Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the dream , I was singing it in all me funny voices , from the squeaky one to the gruff one and it was a pile of bollocks . |
| 2 | Yeah and I was watching it on This Morning and what it is it 's because most things you 've got in your kitchen like myself are all tested on animals and they do n't label it |
| 3 | I was kidding myself for such a long time I began to ignore the risks . |
| 4 | You do n't know how glad I was to see you in that little cottage talking to old Freitas . |
| 5 | So I relaxed as far as I could , and short of thumping my chest like Tarzan , hoped I was emanating nothing but lovely rude health . |
| 6 | I was holding it in such an awkward way that fingers eventually protested . |
| 7 | I was here in the city all the time ; watching its every move while it — and you — thought I was disporting myself in sunnier climes . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah , you normally write them in a straight line but when , when they were numbers I was writing them under each other cos it was easier to add . |
| 9 | And it ended up I was buying it for less money than what I was paying monthly for rent . |
| 10 | It is funny , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , how reluctant I was to say anything like that here in the first few days , how instinctively I felt it might endanger the entire project , how everything might collapse around me the moment I said that . |
| 11 | Erm I 'm not , well I was boiling it for this |
| 12 | Anyway our Darren came in , and I 'm gon na forget Darren came to the caravan and I was telling him about these wet sheets and beds and the mirrors done and what I was doing there and Oh he said and about the mattress he said and I said to him mattress , it 's still the same mattress . |
| 13 | and I was telling them about that Indian or Asian doctor at the City Hospital in the Maternity unit . |
| 14 | Oh yeah I I was telling you about that song was n't I . |
| 15 | I erm oh I was telling you about those till shorts ! |
| 16 | I was expecting something like that . ’ |
| 17 | if I was recording you at this precise moment ? |
| 18 | I was to meet him in later years , but I am sure that the reaction in the chapel of all those within earshot , and particularly of the School Chaplain himself , exactly mirrored ‘ The Guardsman who dropped his rifle on parade ’ and the man who lit his cigar before the Royal toast together with his great friend who ordered a double Scotch in the grand pump-room at Bath . |
| 19 | No I was pulling it through this , that 's what I was doing . |
| 20 | But now he was cuddling me and whispering in my ear with helpless pleading , " Hold me — hold me — " Suddenly I was hugging him with all my strength ; our bodies were strung tight together and we were kissing each other 's cheeks with little frantic kisses — we could n't bear to draw apart even enough to find each other 's lips . |
| 21 | Oh I was saying something about that |
| 22 | I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’ |
| 23 | In 1941 he was still very content with an unrealized , cerebral exposition of the Christian gospel which was to lead him into many distortions . |
| 24 | Not for them the comfortable life ; they might get ideas above their station , which was to devote themselves to hard labour and be grateful for small mercies . |
| 25 | The birds proved to be merely the lure which was to draw us into ten years of adventure through a land of waking dreams . |
| 26 | It was that which was cutting her in two as she dangled from it . |
| 27 | His objection was that these poetic celebrations of the coarse side of army life were an offence against English traditions of Christian civilisation , forming part of a larger ‘ back wave ’ which was manifesting itself in various ways : ‘ the Hooligan in Politics , in Literature , and Journalism ’ , ‘ the Hooligan spirit of patriotism ’ , and all the other barbaric symptoms of ‘ the restless and uninstructed Hooliganism of the time ’ above which ‘ the flag of a Hooligan Imperialism is raised ’ . |
| 28 | Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 . |
| 29 | Charles V , showing that good judgement of men which was to stand him in good stead throughout his reign , chose Bertrand du Guesclin to command his forces , and du Guesclin defeated Navarre at the battle of Cocherel in May 1364 . |
| 30 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |