Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
| 2 | I was thinking of them the other night , well they er , five at least erm they were |
| 3 | With a broad smile , he explained , ‘ When I was talking to him the other day , and I happened to mention that an old friend of my sister 's was coming to Ireland , and that I was going to show her round Dublin , and that we 'd agreed to meet here , and about how scatty … ’ |
| 4 | I was talking about it the other day and you go and it all comes , it hurts and , and it comes out and you ca n't even hold it down either cos it just comes in your mouth dribbles out the side . |
| 5 | A girl from another broken family ‘ used to sleep in the same bed as grandma — I was sleeping with her the night she was found dead the following morning . ’ |
| 6 | But as I was going into it the sun came out , challenging the smell from the night lavatory . |
| 7 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
| 8 | As I was saying to you the other day , laddie , because I was aiming to be a fighting man I would n't get married . |
| 9 | She was looking at him the way his other nanny looked at her budgie . |
| 10 | I mean she does n't does n't see a lot of her erm you know and but she and she was talking to her the other day because she does n't like to get involved or say a lot but |
| 11 | I fully understood what she was saying to you the day you visited Kinghorn , which is why I almost burst out laughing . ’ |
| 12 | And erm these things used to used to sort of wind the r the the the spring or the leather thong around th top and start it off to spinning you know and then you 'd keep whipping it like that and you could make these things jump into the air , in fact a friend of mine was telling me , we were talking about it the other day . |
| 13 | He was in the middle of more grief than he could deal with , yet he was piling onto it the commonplace misery of subterfuge , as if he had to protect some clandestine happiness that did n't even exist . |
| 14 | Giulia told me he was looking at you the way a starving man looks at a plate of pasta . ’ |
| 15 | Anyhow , he , he bakes bread and he was talking about it the other day and I said oh that 's lovely homemade bread . |
| 16 | He was staring at it the way a cat looks at a dinner-plate . |