Example sentences of "[pron] were [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |
| 2 | And then er I were telling you about the er where the marshes was n't I . |
| 3 | Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that . |
| 4 | She was aware of nothing else but his compelling , mesmeric eyes , which were rooting her to the spot , setting a torch to her , the shooting flames searing her insides . |
| 5 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 6 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 7 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 8 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 9 | She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life . |
| 10 | In the centre of the piece was a carving of a shoemaker resisting four shaggy devils who were dragging him from the embraces of what at first Athelstan thought was a young lady but , on looking closer , -realised that with his tail and close-cropped hair , it was a depiction of a male prostitute . |
| 11 | Three men who were visiting her in the flat were also attacked and beaten . |
| 12 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
| 13 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You were telling me about a party . ’ |
| 15 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 16 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 17 | You were getting yourself into a whole load of trouble , Fran , and I needed to ensure that there would be someone around to look after you when I could n't be . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 20 | And you got the odd look but it was n't too severe because at least though they had no clothes on at least you were holding them by the waist . |
| 21 | You were congratulating yourselves on the fact earlier , I know . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ So you were using me as a stud , min kaere . |
| 23 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 24 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
| 25 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 26 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
| 27 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 28 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 29 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 30 | I remember sitting helping to write the cards the night before and we were writing them off a typewritten sheet . |