Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was accompanying him in the show anyway and I think we just had the nerve . ’ |
| 2 | Poor love , ’ she smiled faintly , ‘ he was half asleep , and at first when he heard what I had to say he thought I was leaving him in the lurch after all . |
| 3 | I was reading it in the paper I thought oh I wonder if is . |
| 4 | He had no idea that I was prostituting myself in the cause of Jean-Claude 's success . |
| 5 | I was beating him in the storyline , but he was , in reality , desperate to win all the races . |
| 6 | I have to pay 80p for one piece of Vallis , Cabomba etc at any of the fish centres in this part of the world and £1.50 each if I was to buy them in the little pots . |
| 7 | I nearly forgot how old you are when I was putting you in the book . |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 10 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 11 | You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout . |
| 12 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The lecherous Cohn once used his intercom to address an embarrassed starlet when he asked her if she was keeping herself in a state of sexual readiness for him . |
| 17 | She probably imagined she was comporting herself in an attractively provocative and feminine fashion , thought Lydia , sneering and lengthening her stride . |
| 18 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
| 19 | Probably dropped in when we were shaking them in the bowl , Rice Krispies seemed to get everywhere , undo the thing and there 's Rice Krispies everywhere , |
| 20 | ‘ We can give him flowers , ’ said Bobbie , when they were discussing it in the garden , later that day . |
| 21 | He went in acting very worried , looking at people as though ashamed that they were seeing him in a cinema . |
| 22 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
| 23 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
| 24 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 25 | I mean , my mate , he went to hospital cos they said he was allergic to something and they was putting him in a thing that only |
| 26 | Security officials feared that it was re-establishing itself in the region , possibly with the help of the small Catalan secessionist group Terra Lliure . |
| 27 | The third case resulted from the willingness and need of the firm to take work from any source while it was establishing itself in a new market . |
| 28 | If I had been standing I could have put it in my personal manifesto that I was a sabbatarian but when the Party committed itself to that , it was placing itself in the position of a church . ’ |
| 29 | And when at last she fell asleep it was to find herself in the château , running endlessly through a labyrinth of rooms , searching for something that was always just beyond her reach . |
| 30 | 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 . |