Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having asked about Shropshire 's youth and their existence within the diocese , my friend Clare and I were invited to take on the role of Shropshire 's Youth Representatives . |
| 2 | I told him that if he did n't cut out the vicious behaviour , Brian and I were going to cut out the co-operation , we 'd stop eating . |
| 3 | I was learning to shut out the daily discomforts , however , either by looking around , or by playing mental games . |
| 4 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 5 | ‘ Because , ’ said Riley through gritted teeth , ‘ I was told to keep up the pressure on him . ’ |
| 6 | The person whom I was going to take over the job from said to me at the end of the meeting well what do you think of that meeting and I must admit I the answer and luckily somebody else instructed with some other business and I felt I got off the hook here but in fact that got dealt with very quickly and he came back to me and said well what did you think of the meeting and I had to say to him just one word , was the way I put it . |
| 7 | My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust . |
| 8 | I was going to phone up the A T S tyre people just to find out |
| 9 | And if you were an important enough visitor , you were allowed to come up the privy stair and straight into the great chamber . |
| 10 | You were going to take on the ones we had last time . |
| 11 | She was determined to find out the truth and act on it . |
| 12 | Now he was insisting that she should give him the dress she was wearing to pay off the debt . |
| 13 | The nurse , who was dismissed , claimed she was trained to carry out the tests by the doctor who employed her , GP Dr Ashok Kumar . |
| 14 | She shut her eyes , unsure if she was trying to blot out the unexpected hunger in his kiss , or opting for her ostrich trick again and trying to pretend this was n't happening to her . |
| 15 | Having come to terms with the failure of her marriage , she was trying to pick up the broken bits of her pride , glue them together , and get on with her life . |
| 16 | She was trying to chat up the boy who was serving . |
| 17 | She was going to take back the night . |
| 18 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 19 | Maisie Williams was thrilled when she was told to turn up the following week : |
| 20 | But the funding fell through , and she was told to give up the project . |
| 21 | Boardman , who has a three-year-old daughter , claimed she was forced to carry out the abduction by an unnamed man and woman . |
| 22 | If we were minded to go down the new settlement line ? |
| 23 | I thought we were going to walk down the line of men , touch them on the shoulder maybe , like some cop programme on TV , but that was n't it at all . |
| 24 | I said we was sent to set up the seating and the pulpit . ’ |
| 25 | What was more , they were threatening to burn down the capital if Colonel Rebu was not set free — and Port-au-Prince is mostly built of wood . |
| 26 | These dances mattered very much to Petipa and all nineteenthcentury balletmasters because they were expected to show off the wealth of talent found in the many imperial , Royal and State theatres , e.g. all the characters from other fairy tales who came to Aurora 's wedding and the character dances in Swan Lake . |
| 27 | They were going to put on the big show . |
| 28 | They would be in favour of it if it could be worked out in a practical form : but it did not mean they were going to give up the freedom of the seas . |
| 29 | Tessa could hear him breathing on the threshold outside for several minutes more , as if he were trying to summon up the courage to return and say something . |
| 30 | He must certainly see about spectacles ; it would be worse than anything if he were compelled to give up the reader 's position with Mr Lamprey . |