Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me and me mam were singing it the other night . |
| 2 | The words were leading him the wrong way . |
| 3 | He started living lavishly and tried to extort more and more money from the government who were paying him a tax-free pension of $1,050 a month . |
| 4 | Well in the Midland Bank and they were wearing them the last time you were there . |
| 5 | I thought you were calling me the bearded wonder then . |
| 6 | It was as if I were doing him a big favour . |
| 7 | ‘ Just one , ’ she said graciously , managing to make it sound as though she were doing him a big favour . |
| 8 | I hoped the u s authorities were giving him a hard time . |
| 9 | That same day he told me , as if he were giving me a magnificent present , that he thought he could pull strings and have me posted with him . |
| 10 | Who do you think was making the audience laugh while you were giving them the full force of your personality ? |
| 11 | As Coleman 's real job was to file back-channel reports on the operations of DEA Nicosia , the DIA was hardly likely to have told Hurley that they were lending him a full-time agent . |
| 12 | Yeah cos , my mates were telling me the other day what 's Gilly said ? |
| 13 | 2 Remember all the details that you can — you may have forgotten some of them when you were telling it the first time . |
| 14 | I mean technically we do have an entitlement to visits in that Janet was was reminding me the other day that that we said , when Deborah was here , that everybody was entitled to four visits a year . |
| 15 | Here the Bey of Tunis was building himself a superb mausoleum . |
| 16 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
| 17 | This was costing him a small fortune . |
| 18 | Hugh , who had worn the uniform of a verderer for less than a twelvemonth , was no use to them as a guide and as the day grew on it became evident that his arm was causing him a great deal of pain . |
| 19 | Sien was causing him a great deal of worry as the year wore on . |
| 20 | This time I left it up to my patient to decide which area of her life was causing her the most distress . |
| 21 | Erm , I was erm , put on just for in ninety seventy three and your question that you 're asked was and from nineteen seventy three till three years ago erm I know took my causes , I trust , put my trust in the doctors and erm over all those years I did n't realize that it was actually the tablets that was causing me the mental illness . |
| 22 | Mat. , she had managed to give the impression authority was granting me a great favour . |
| 23 | Thank you very much indeed for the smelly duck — or should I say scented , it is such a nice smell ! — and for the pretty scarf which , you may be surprised to hear , Mark admired when I was wearing it the other day though he had n't realized it was new and from you ! |
| 24 | Er , oh in the example that I gave , yes , because it was totalling what the grand total . |
| 25 | I was expecting you a little bit earlier actually , I think perhaps you got the times wrong I was |
| 26 | I was teaching them the fine art of drinking Tequila Slammers , one of the fastest ways of getting spifflicated known to man . |
| 27 | She was berating me the whole time . |
| 28 | But , but , but I think that the Reverend David Brian was saying something a little bit erm more direct and more overarching than dealing only with those people that you 're talking about , were n't you , David ? |
| 29 | Mrs Goreng presented the idea like she was doing me a big favour , giving me the chance to teach the future malai President . |
| 30 | Of course , in thinking like this , I was doing him a great injustice : the change was not so much in him , as in the way I saw him . |