Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [pron] 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 | Now the next thing I 'd like you to note down is when I say other actors in the international system , obviously there are other governments as well but as well as governments if you , the word actors is quite often used in international affairs , if you were to list what the other actors are erm would you , would you note down them , say , put four or five other actors . |
13 | She was telling me the other day . |
14 | She was asking herself the same question . |
15 | ‘ Well , she was doing it the first time I laid eyes on her ! ’ |
16 | She was berating me the whole time . |
17 | Well in the Midland Bank and they were wearing them the last time you were there . |
18 | Er , oh in the example that I gave , yes , because it was totalling what the grand total . |
19 | She knew he was leaving her the next day , perhaps for ever . |
20 | I remember when he was asked what the principal crop of Thailand was and he answered transistor radios . |
21 | 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 ? |
22 | 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 . |
23 | And from what she could see of him , which was not much , he was giving her the coldest of stares . |