Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] [verb] [prep] that " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
2 | I tried to remember when I 'd been held like that before , and by whom . |
3 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
4 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
5 | I 've been listening to that a lot . |
6 | Having said that , I do n't blame them because ‘ Ironfist ’ was n't the greatest album it could have been and ‘ Another Perfect Day ’ , well , I 've been thinking about that and I 'm sure it was n't just the album … ’ |
7 | No I 've been thinking about that actually , I must |
8 | Same goes for about half the words I 've been learning from that little minx . |
9 | Yes I 've been looking at that and thinking we 'll take it , mm |
10 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
11 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
12 | I 've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off , ’ said the frog . |
13 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |
14 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
15 | he says I 've been talking to that wee feller and he was talking about the pub which got . |
16 | There 's an old clay range up in the woods , and I 've been practising on that . |
17 | All I 've been introduced to that bloke as Sally 's friend ! |
18 | I 've been brooding about that myself ever since I heard . |
19 | ‘ I 've been wondering about that , ’ he said . |
20 | I 've been wondering about that myself . |
21 | I 've been playing with that idea all day . |
22 | He said he lost them about a week ago and heard today that a set which might have been his had been used by that psychic woman . |
23 | I have been thinking about that riddle . |
24 | I have been looking for that ever since I first became involved in politics . |
25 | It is in islands like the one I have been talking of that one can best speak to the emergent nations about their problems in a relaxed , a hospitable and an egalitarian atmosphere , and against the background of a shared experience . |
26 | You know , I , I have been put in that situation before , when I 've actually seen , you know , and most reporters are working secondhand , but , you know , I have been in the position where I 've actually seen , part of a police operation take place , mainly because I 'd got stopped coming out on the Huntingdon Road after the , the Mill Road Post Office was , was knocked over a year or so ago . |
27 | ‘ I have been wondering about that , ’ Cranston replied . |
28 | It 's not , it 's a very good approximation most of the time , it 's an awful lot better than erm you know , wh what sort of current do you think 's flowing in that Joe ? |
29 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
30 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |