Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I realized he was making some sort of joke and endeavoured to smile appropriately , though I suspect some residue of my bewilderment , not to say shock , remained detectable in my expression . |
| 2 | I realised I was missing half the jokes , so I mugged up from a textbook — and here I am , ready for more ! ’ |
| 3 | Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever . |
| 4 | cos the publicity is not just for visually impaired people or even for sponsors , it 's for theatres too when they 're seeing this and saying ooh , I noticed they 're doing that , this , this and this |
| 5 | I reckoned we were doing more damage to Naamen 's image than the demonstrators . |
| 6 | ‘ But you were looking so absorbed that I guessed you were admiring that wonderful bureau . ’ |
| 7 | We were engaged , within weeks of marriage , when I discovered she was seeing another man . |
| 8 | ‘ I heard he was making some kind of detective story with McQueen . ’ |
| 9 | I knew I was taking some rare old stick mentally , though . |
| 10 | Of course I 'm sorry , for some strange reason I thought we were going that way , I 've got to go through the other way have n't I ? |
| 11 | Cos I thought they were doing some . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought she was having such a wonderful time . ’ |
| 13 | Well , s I thought it was tending that way . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought you were dropping that ? ’ |
| 15 | Oh , I thought you were making those quick biscuits |
| 16 | Oh I thought you was buying that one so Ann told us . |
| 17 | I phoned the Edinburgh office again the nex and I thought I 'm giving this up I 'm gon na write |
| 18 | ‘ If I thought I was causing any pain to the fish I would n't go fishing and I think all anglers feel that way , ’ he says . |
| 19 | I thought he was doing that again . |
| 20 | I said I 'm getting more enjoyment out of . |
| 21 | I said you 're putting some on . |
| 22 | I had I 'm getting that way tomorrow night ! |
| 23 | Yes , ma'am , I understand ; and I have worked with children before … well , when I was at the nuns ’ school , it was part of the older pupils ' duty to be in charge of two or three of the younger ones to see they washed properly and … well , things like that , and just before I left I was doing this . ’ |
| 24 | Then she found she was doing all this already , and a sigh of utter contentment shivered through her . |
| 25 | It should n't have taken her long to pack and change out of her sundress into a skirt and blouse , but she found she was folding each garment at least twice , and several times she stood looking out of the window at the busy yard below . |
| 26 | She imagined she was cupping this white-hot power in her womb , and that the walls of it contained the fire . |
| 27 | This sight brought her immediately down from her high , tragic pinnacle and made it seem all somehow cosier , as she thought she was sharing this music with such a wise and friendly dog . |
| 28 | She knew she was handling this badly , acting like a fool , making a scene because she could n't face the pretence , could n't face having to stifle her feelings , her crazy and immature hopes — hopes that would always be doomed to failure where a man like Luke Denner was concerned . |
| 29 | I just feel I 'm a mother so er all week , and I do n't wear make up all week and I do n't dress up all week just a jeans and a jumper whereas tonight you knew you were coming some where |
| 30 | Out of the many false starts her life had made she felt they were witnessing this pure beginning that she would seize and make true . |