Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have reason to believe that if I were to ask you the time you would n't be able to accommodate me . |
| 2 | Well , it 's funny , I was telling Stephen , my boyfriend , about that , and I was telling him the question and he said |
| 3 | I was telling you the truth . |
| 4 | and she were telling me the guy that runs it wo n't let them talk to the customers , said that was pig ignorant surely |
| 5 | But how would he react if she were to tell him the truth ? she wondered distantly . |
| 6 | When she said , I do n't know , I think she was telling me the truth , she did n't know . |
| 7 | She was offering him the deputy to Hitler , through an intermediary who was a friend of George Vl and Winston Churchill . |
| 8 | Again she was giving him the opportunity to ask her to lengthen the period — or to indicate in some way that he had no wish for her to leave . |
| 9 | Hoping against hope that she was giving him the come-on at last , he readily accepted . |
| 10 | Desperate Ricky should n't think she was giving him the come-on , she had the door open before the car stopped . |
| 11 | She was tellin' me the ovver day she wants Fred ter try an' get that empty 'ouse next door ter make the place bigger . |
| 12 | I never did think they were primitive and they always told the truth ( except when they were teaching me the language ) and were a damn sight more trustworthy than some of the white men we had on the job . |
| 13 | But Lothar then extracted a further concession , " since he would not have , he said , in the share [ of the regnum ] they were offering him the wherewithal to make good to his own supporters that which they had lost . |
| 14 | I do n't want you to give me your answers now , I am as it were giving you the opportunity now , over lunch , to consider this matter . |
| 15 | He said , ‘ Angie … ’ and she stood aside to let him in , lost for words , then followed him to the kitchen , as if he were showing her the way . |
| 16 | Chance , fate or whatever you want to call it was offering me the opportunity to finally get you out of my system . |
| 17 | And all the while , while he was handing him the plate of meat and bread , and while he was holding the cup to the trembling lips , a little silvery voice was beating inside Fergus 's head : this is all wrong . |
| 18 | He was telling her the cage door was open but she was still chained to the bars . |
| 19 | Lizzie had bought the kind of steak he liked and now he was cooking it the way he wanted . |
| 20 | And with that sarcastic tone she had always disliked he said he was giving her the answers : he ha.i acquired a duplicate set of keys to help in his research for Eliot . |
| 21 | Swinging himself into the saddle , Guy turned Chalon 's head towards Winchester and began to consider the various means whereby he could ensure that Isabel belonged to him while he was giving her the time she needed . |
| 22 | Erm the , the other thing I noticed was that there is very little or no eye contact at all with Martin so you , you were never really looking at him when you were asking questions or when he was giving you the answers back , so there was no er visual acknowledgement whenever he was , he was coming back to you . |
| 23 | He was showing me the ships that were lost in the battle . |
| 24 | He was offering me the trip of a lifetime , and all I had to do was take care of the meals . |
| 25 | He was offering her the protection of his house and name . |