Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] to [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 2 | You , you were listening to it on the radio . |
| 3 | I know Ellen Garwood loved to call him Mr Green , and when she would write me letters thinking that Mr Green was her real son , I got the impression that she was talking to me on the telephone underneath her bed , about the fun she was having . |
| 4 | Yes , well , as a matter of fact er , the moderator was talking to me on the telephone |
| 5 | So I said ‘ Well , there 's no need to be frightened of him , he would n't touch you ’ , but you see then somebody was talking to me on the phone last night and said the same thing ‘ We do n't come any more to say prayers as we go through the churchyard because we 're frightened ’ . |
| 6 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 7 | jumping around while I was talking to her on the phone , I was getting so pissed the phone . |
| 8 | If I was talking to you on the street and you had asked me where such-and-such a street was , that was all right . |