Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was accompanying him in the show anyway and I think we just had the nerve . ’ |
| 2 | Poor love , ’ she smiled faintly , ‘ he was half asleep , and at first when he heard what I had to say he thought I was leaving him in the lurch after all . |
| 3 | I was reading it in the paper I thought oh I wonder if is . |
| 4 | I was beating him in the storyline , but he was , in reality , desperate to win all the races . |
| 5 | I have to pay 80p for one piece of Vallis , Cabomba etc at any of the fish centres in this part of the world and £1.50 each if I was to buy them in the little pots . |
| 6 | I nearly forgot how old you are when I was putting you in the book . |
| 7 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 8 | You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout . |
| 9 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 10 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 11 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
| 12 | Probably dropped in when we were shaking them in the bowl , Rice Krispies seemed to get everywhere , undo the thing and there 's Rice Krispies everywhere , |
| 13 | ‘ We can give him flowers , ’ said Bobbie , when they were discussing it in the garden , later that day . |
| 14 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
| 15 | He paused , and Juliet felt he was watching her in the darkness . |
| 16 | In his room at the hotel , he would find a gun and it was emphasised that , after the shooting , he was to replace it in the room as arrangements had been made to dispose of it . |
| 17 | The cost of a player in the fantasy league does not reflect his ‘ true ’ value ; for defenders and goalies it 's how many clean sheets , +4 points , or goals conceded — 1 point for each ( but they get points for nipping in the odd goal ; why Irwin is worth 3m and Tony 1.9m ) ; for the midfield and forwards it is how many they score , +3 points , and how many they assist with , +2 points , explaining why Speed is valued higher than Macca , as at the time of setting this up he was putting them in the onion bag . |
| 18 | And he ki he was killing them in the back yard there . |
| 19 | Well he was poking me in the groin . |
| 20 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |