Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you very much indeed for the smelly duck — or should I say scented , it is such a nice smell ! — and for the pretty scarf which , you may be surprised to hear , Mark admired when I was wearing it the other day though he had n't realized it was new and from you ! |
| 2 | I was teaching them the fine art of drinking Tequila Slammers , one of the fastest ways of getting spifflicated known to man . |
| 3 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 4 | Erm I 'm , I admit er that that was one I just bolted simply because I was taking it the wrong way round , I thought we had identified what was the priority , life insurance , P H I and pensions and was summarizing it whereas I should 've realized we 're doing that page towards the priority |
| 5 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
| 6 | On that morning I was giving them the latest news of Nigel . |
| 7 | I was doing it the other day yes . |
| 8 | And you were telling me the other clubs men men had |
| 9 | 2 Remember all the details that you can — you may have forgotten some of them when you were telling it the first time . |
| 10 | I thought you were calling me the bearded wonder then . |
| 11 | Who do you think was making the audience laugh while you were giving them the full force of your personality ? |
| 12 | She was telling me the other day . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , she was doing it the first time I laid eyes on her ! ’ |
| 14 | She was berating me the whole time . |
| 15 | Well in the Midland Bank and they were wearing them the last time you were there . |
| 16 | She knew he was leaving her the next day , perhaps for ever . |
| 17 | Anyway , just after Christmas this guy says er I still want the hotel so Peter said well you better put something down , you ge , better get something so he he went and put fifty thousand as a deposit on it and then said his legal advisers would be in touch and they had a month went by and they never heard anything , so Peter rang up , he was telling me the other day , er , he rang up yeah , go , he does n't want it you know ? |
| 18 | Now he s he thought he was giving me the same stuff , I did n't know what I was on , all I knew was I felt twice as bad . |
| 19 | And from what she could see of him , which was not much , he was giving her the coldest of stares . |