Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He told me , ’ said Ray , ‘ that I was n't doing him any good , two depressives together . |
| 2 | ‘ No , I was n't doing anything this evening , ’ said Penelope too brusquely , ‘ and one 's always glad of a free meal . ’ |
| 3 | I was told by their breeder that I was n't giving them enough protein . |
| 4 | I was soon to have my own experience of room mates , however . |
| 5 | I was about to order myself some coffee . ’ |
| 6 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 7 | She was just congratulating herself that Fen need never know how she had weakened when the galley light was flicked on . |
| 8 | She turned , suddenly uneasy in his company , so that she was n't facing him any more , and watched the stormy lake . |
| 9 | This time , she was n't metamorphizing her own body by will power . |
| 10 | Rory tried to sneak a surreptitious glance at Adam 's wristwatch — she was n't wearing her own since it would have looked totally out of place with the slinky black number she was wearing — only to have her eyes riveted on his hands . |
| 11 | And if she was n't making her own clothes , she was determined to back her country folk and wear designer gear from Down Under , not previously known as a stronghold in fashion terms . |
| 12 | She was even making her own clothes which she often paraded at public appearances in Britain and Australia . |
| 13 | Her story was plastered all over the December issue of Playboy and every time he switched on the television , she was there repeating it all as a multitude of chat-show hosts clamoured to get her on their programmes . |
| 14 | Then as she was about to explain her own presence there , the outer door of the kitchen opened and a man entered . |
| 15 | When the last telex was sent and the last cheque banked , we almost threw our things into suitcases , loaded them into the sports car , said our goodbyes to Hassan who was off to see his own family , and set out . |
| 16 | So I think the seminar itself was n't giving you much new stuff , it was stuff that we 've already picked up in the course . |
| 17 | In theory , her looks depended on the services of many employees , my hairdresser , my last hairdresser , my doctor , my other doctor who I went to when I found the first one was n't doing me any good , but with or without their attentions , Laura would always be beautiful . |
| 18 | There was no mistaking it this time . |
| 19 | She herself was never to receive her own acquaintances in her quarters . |
| 20 | Jenna was a bit surprised that Alain knew this man and the fact that he knew him was n't making him any more gracious , either . |
| 21 | Sally tried to persuade him to stop but he said it was n't doing him any harm , even though he looked pale and drawn . |
| 22 | it was n't doing me any good because it was |
| 23 | Despite this demonstration of the Department of Energy 's failure adequately to foresee a threatening situation , it was not to safeguard its own reputation that the department refused originally to give information on the lease to a Magill reporter : ‘ these leases are negotiated individually between the company and the department . |
| 24 | It was really believing our own notices and becoming very arrogant . |
| 25 | He was already taking his own advice . |
| 26 | Eliot wrote back and discussed the matter ; he was already formulating his own ideas on the general subject — he gave a paper on " The Christian Concept of Education " at a conference in Malvern in January 1941 — but , since they were markedly different from those of Pound , it is probable that he was only humouring him . |
| 27 | He said to me on the phone he did n't know a great deal cos he was just getting it all together . |
| 28 | She looked at George , but he was just pouring himself another glass of port . |
| 29 | The manors were the natural complement to Gloucester 's lordship of Sheriff Hutton and he was later to farm them both from the crown . |
| 30 | The manors were the natural complement to Gloucester 's lordship of Sheriff Hutton and he was later to farm them both from the crown . |