Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ OK , maybe I was n't doing him a service . |
| 2 | ‘ I was about to ask you the same question . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I was about to ask you the same question . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I was about to ask you the same question . ’ |
| 5 | I was about to write you a note and stick it on your windscreen . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , far be it from me to pry , ’ Rob said loftily , ‘ I was merely paying you an indirect compliment . ’ |
| 7 | I was only giving you an example . |
| 8 | ‘ As is whether you were actually telling me the truth , or lying . |
| 9 | She cultivated the kind of aloofness that Robert had observed in certain classes of minor official — he had the constant impression she was about to refuse him a visa . |
| 10 | Ev well I do n't know about this year mind but every Christmas I worked there she never paid us double time for anything over Christmas , she was always bought us a present . |
| 11 | But if anyone said that Christianity was n't going to cost you anything , they were not telling you the full story . |
| 12 | I feel sure they were about to offer you a partnership . ’ |
| 13 | Its ears were erect and it was evidently giving them the full attention of sight , smell and hearing . |
| 14 | When after I became a Christian I obeyed and was baptized , it was n't to make me a better person it was n't to make me er , someone who was , er more pious or more religious , or of having greater favour with God , it was done because he had commanded it in his word , and I was identifying myself with him . |
| 15 | It was just costing them a lot of money in phone calls and train tickets to London . |
| 16 | It was only to teach her a little lesson that I 'd added some nail-varnish remover to the ephedrine in that nasal spray she carried around everywhere . |
| 17 | Erm so I c I could n't buy any of what you were telling me and it 's all like a , it was all a smokescreen I was putting up , the accountant , basically I , I was not erm buying anything er and the compressed funding was just blowing my mind because I could n't understa er it was basically giving me an easy option to say I do n't need to do anything cos I can compress my funding at forty five wo n't I , when my business has taken off . |
| 18 | He was surely telling her the truth , surely , with that playful-sounding promise of a comedy about the Wall . |
| 19 | He was already handing her the piece of paper which certified that she was in good health and not suffering from any infectious disease . |
| 20 | He was n't paying her a compliment . |
| 21 | Emmie saw , appalled , that he was about to tell him the truth . |
| 22 | She laughed , but he was only telling her the truth . |