Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Now , I was saying something about the fish-shop on Lyons Dock . |
| 2 | ‘ I was doing nothing of the sort ! |
| 3 | ‘ I was doing nothing of the kind , ’ she denied crossly , turning to face him . |
| 4 | However , one afternoon perhaps two weeks after our conversation in my pantry , I was doing something in the library when Miss Kenton came in and said : |
| 5 | And er and I was telling everyone I said , Oh I 'm going to and I was flinging everything over the you know . |
| 6 | She opened her mouth to suggest that perhaps she could give him dinner at her hotel — and thereby eliminate any possibility of him putting his arm around her in his car — then found that she was suggesting nothing of the sort , but was asking , ‘ Did Mr Gajdusek ask you to invite me out ? ’ and was at once appalled that , Ven all too clearly not far away in her head , she had asked such a thing ! |
| 7 | ‘ They were doing everything by the book . |
| 8 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
| 9 | It was believed someone from the Academy was helping Mann with the finance and distribution of the drugs . |
| 10 | Mrs Maugham would often abuse this garden and the widower 's laziness , with a self-righteous , alarming complacency , saying that it was a scandal and a disgrace , and that it ought not to be allowed : and when one day Clara , exasperated , as she sometimes rashly was , out of her usual silence , asked her what harm it was doing anybody , Mrs Maugham had snapped triumphantly that it was harming everybody in the street , because it helped the weeds to spread . |
| 11 | And there 's , er , I mean it was showing somebody round the other day and we were talking about it and , and erm they 're saying , yeah I mean , you 've got seven urinals there , so let's say you have a busy night , you 're full , I mean that 's when damage gets done when people |
| 12 | He was learning something of the dead man 's background , admittedly from a biased witness , but any policeman knows that all witnesses are biased in some degree . |
| 13 | He was waving something in the air and laughing . |
| 14 | I walked in there and I can se he had a he had a er some copies and and er he was getting one in the bloody phone ! |
| 15 | He did n't even look up , he was doing something with the cafetière . |
| 16 | Giles recalls one remark when Montini was criticizing the De Gasperi Christian Democratic government for inaction while denying that he was doing anything of the kind ( a typical Montini ploy ) : ‘ In political questions the Church has to be general , just as in religious matters she can not afford not to be particular ’ ( ibid. , p. 109 ) . |
| 17 | The German Commandant had dreamt of a mute Jewish whore and when he was issued one for the duration his cup overflowed . |
| 18 | It was odd , but Greg noticed Bill Clough 's eyes following them sharply : he was saying nothing to the purpose so there was no reason why he should n't watch them , but Greg , following his lead , did wonder whether Hilary 's mutterings were not of a rather different kind from Desmond 's . |
| 19 | He was saying something about the Hamilton house , a question . |
| 20 | In fact … one of them was stuffing something through the wire and bars of his cage which they should n't be doing and he did n't much like it … |