Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like him , I was watching him on the telly the other day , I think he seemed nice . |
| 2 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 3 | ‘ I was watching you through the net curtains — how 's that for snooping ? |
| 4 | Well , I was watching you through the window . |
| 5 | ‘ I was watching you with the stopwatch . ’ |
| 6 | I was accompanying him in the show anyway and I think we just had the nerve . ’ |
| 7 | The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter . |
| 8 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 9 | Or maybe , the other ends got hot while I was a-tapping them on the anvil . ’ |
| 10 | About once a week or fortnight I had to attend some quite high-powered meetings in London to which James came too , as I was feeding him at the time . |
| 11 | While I was thinking it over the ‘ phone rang . |
| 12 | Poor love , ’ she smiled faintly , ‘ he was half asleep , and at first when he heard what I had to say he thought I was leaving him in the lurch after all . |
| 13 | ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best . |
| 14 | ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best . |
| 15 | I was reading it in the paper I thought oh I wonder if is . |
| 16 | Oh , I was writing it from the board actually . |
| 17 | He had no idea that I was prostituting myself in the cause of Jean-Claude 's success . |
| 18 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
| 19 | ‘ I was telling him about the Glory , and I said I 'd driven it over and what did he think — was he looking forward to driving it and all that — ’ She paused excitedly . |
| 20 | Coming back to the council last year , some time in May last year , and er I was telling them about the noise and the situation , at the time . |
| 21 | At least that 's what I was telling myself at the start line of the Bury 20 . |
| 22 | I was telling you about the Queen Mary . |
| 23 | Er well Mark remember I was telling you about the boss that the two there the other night they give er a , a wage rise |
| 24 | I was beating him in the storyline , but he was , in reality , desperate to win all the races . |
| 25 | So do I and I was just talking to her downstairs and I was asking her like the differences between here and the States , you know the boar cos she was in a boarding school before , and she was saying erm how you know just generally the people are nicer and the blokes talk to you not just because you 're cos they |
| 26 | I was asking you about the guy Adam 's been talking to this evening . ’ |
| 27 | When it was dry , I edged around the unpainted border bands with masking tape very carefully , because now I was applying it onto the painted surface . |
| 28 | I was hitting them on the head and they were all falling on the floor . |
| 29 | ‘ I felt I did everything right , like the simple things of making the right contact , but I was striking it into the wind and it seemed to tail off at the last minute . ’ |
| 30 | I was putting them round the back and sat thinking about it and I said well we ai n't got no peat , so we had to rush over to Hetford and bought some very good peat , and erm , by the time I got back and started digging hole for them to go in |