Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I remember at the time , I was chasing you over a most ridiculous national press story that Emlyn did n't like the idea of you a pop singer appearing in one of his classics . |
| 2 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 3 | I was helping him across a busy six-lane road in north London . |
| 4 | It would be very strange if I stood here saying do n't use a linear script use thought patterns and yet I was reading everything off a linear script would n't it ? |
| 5 | Instead I was getting myself into an increasingly confrontational situation , a battle of wills , with the Director of Coaching . |
| 6 | But I was advised to imagine I was telling it to a good friend and not worry about what other people might think . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd hoped for so much from that class since I was taking it at an American university , but — ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't say I was taking you to a hotel , ’ he replied evenly . |
| 9 | He saw the work that I examined and dealt with , and on the Tuesday , I was saluting him as an inspector . |
| 10 | I was committing myself to a policy . ’ |
| 11 | If I was interviewing you as an , as a member of the institution as a , a local spokesman |
| 12 | ‘ I suddenly felt that I was doing it to a bunch of people that actually understood what Lear 's pain was about , whereas I do n't standing on the stage at the National Theatre ’ : Brian Cox 's concerns about audience reactions and the nature of the dramatic experience are echoed by others . |
| 13 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 14 | He put a solicitor down , and last time I spoke with him I was defending him on a for fraud . |
| 15 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
| 16 | ‘ You were telling me about a party . ’ |
| 17 | You were getting yourself into a whole load of trouble , Fran , and I needed to ensure that there would be someone around to look after you when I could n't be . |
| 18 | ‘ So you were using me as a stud , min kaere . |
| 19 | If you were to compare it with a really accurate map there would be very little in common but the map achieves its aim successfully through massive simplification and artificial emphasis of the important features , in this case the stations and interchanges . |
| 20 | If you were to touch him with a pin — and he 's a boy or a girl by now — he 'd move away , he feels pain . |
| 21 | It is easy to have an opinion about a moral issue like capital punishment , but if you were to discuss it in an essay you would usually have to give your reasons . |
| 22 | However , if you were to help yourself to a reasonably generous helping of watercress as part of a salad meal , it is unlikely that your portion would weigh more than half an ounce . |
| 23 | And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’ |
| 24 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 25 | When I turned to close the door behind me she was watching me with a faint smile . |
| 26 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 27 | She was treating him like a little boy . |
| 28 | The situation arising from this all-too-common attitude was as follows : in the evening she was placing herself in a situation of maximum temptation as far as diet-breaking was concerned with time on her hands and food and drink all too readily available . |
| 29 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 30 | She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life . |