Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [verb] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only experience of collectivization there 'd been was the Soviet one and they seemed to have known at least something about the Soviet , they knew it involved a lot of force they knew that if you were going to collect you were going to collectivize you needed the mechaniz well they thought that you needed the mechanization first and they knew that they d A they did n't have the capacity for that mechanization they did n't want to use force I mean i it would , i it would have been very dangerous , would n't it , to go back to the countryside collectivization . |
| 2 | I thought you were going to put it facing the front . |
| 3 | Late one afternoon Rioja had rushed in to tell them that the whole camp was being evacuated across the border and they must flee before the men who were coming to shoot them reached the hut . |
| 4 | You were trying to help me put the names in place , without finishing it off . |
| 5 | we were trying to get him to sell the Guinness fifty P a pint because it was Saint Patrick 's day |
| 6 | ‘ But we had managers who were trying to get us to play the steak houses of LA , which is like a trip to nowhere , and yet there was this cult thing growing on the East Coast and in the South , and it turned out that by the time we joined Fleetwood Mac we were headlining in our own right to five thousand people in the South and East , but totally starving in LA ! |
| 7 | It was touching to watch him cross the road to the crowds in Downing Street yesterday to talk quietly to them . |
| 8 | I was going to let you have the rent as soon as we met again . ’ |
| 9 | I was going to say I represent the tourist ind , industry in Grampian , and I do n't think anybody can deny that our royal are a tremendous draw to tourists , particularly tourists from overseas . |
| 10 | It was like going to the Holy Land , or being the Knights of the Round Table , Sir Perceval I think it was , and your dad suddenly said he was going to take you to see the Holy Grail . |
| 11 | Patrick realised that this was SOCO 's way of recognising that he was persona grata and was going to allow him to enter the murder room . |
| 12 | ‘ I was going to tell you to change the locks . ’ |
| 13 | She says she also sleeps better and wakes up with a clearer head which is not the sort of image she portrayed a couple of years ago when all the pressures she was facing caused her to hit the bottle again . |
| 14 | And Norma was trying to persuade , because , it was for two adults and two children , she was trying to persuade them to take the boys with them . |
| 15 | This pleased me very much because I was longing to hear her play the instrument . |