Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [v-ing] [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was hoping to buy her a ring for Christmas but we just could n't afford it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Well , ’ Nora replied angrily , ‘ I was trying to give you a little surprise but you 've spoiled that now . ’ |
| 3 | I found I was trying to announce it the I 'd this and I 'd that in there . |
| 4 | ‘ I was going to ask you a small favour , ’ said Mr Chan . |
| 5 | It 's a cold morning and I was going to give him a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 6 | I was g , I was going to get to read the newspaper report in the Mercury and the Mail , and when I appeared at Leicester Castle before a Judge , but er , I think , and I was going to give you a clue . |
| 7 | Then she added quickly , lest he deliberately misinterpret that , ‘ But I was going to leave you a note , as I keep trying to tell you . |
| 8 | I was going to write you a note — ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I was going to show you the laconicum , ’ he said , and he turned and snuffed like a hound across the green , open bowl , and set out on a selected trail , nose to scent , heading obliquely for the complex of standing walls where several rooms of the ancient baths converged . |
| 10 | Can I , can I , yes I was going to tell you a story |
| 11 | I was going to make him a director , bloody good young man , tough and fair and straight . |
| 12 | ‘ Mr Gajdusek lives in the part of Czechoslovakia called Western Bohemia , and I was going to make it a quick flight over , find this place called Mariánské Láznë where he has his home , and shoot back to England again , ’ Cara replied . |
| 13 | ‘ For a moment then I thought you were going to give me a different name . |
| 14 | He had done a good enough job of getting her to do that already , and she 'd be damned if she was going to give him the satisfaction of letting it happen again . |
| 15 | So Mum told me she was going to leave me a bit more than she had originally planned . |
| 16 | She was going to enjoy it a lot . |
| 17 | I have no doubt wha did I not tell you about the fact that I hit the roof when he said that she has said that when he was twenty one , she was going to buy him a Vauxhall Chevette . |
| 18 | She was going to offer him an armchair to sit in but he had already decided to settle at the pinewood table . |
| 19 | The Lions selectors have an impassioned Irish performance to thank for that — and , according to coach Gerry Murphy , a little divine inspiration : ‘ We were going to keep it a secret , ’ he quipped , ‘ but we spent last weekend in Lourdes ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ It was as if they were trying to give us a clue , deliberately toying with us . ’ |
| 21 | And erm and Miss asked why we were n't friends any more and we goes well she lied and you know , she splits up most people by doing that cos they were trying to tell us the truth and we would n't listen . |
| 22 | They 'd relented , his Mum and Dad , and they were going to give him a parrot for Easter . |
| 23 | At Heathrow Wendy Hoyte was being met by her husband Les and they were going to give me a lift back into London . |
| 24 | But then the lady came back on again — you know , the one who spoke to me first — and she said ‘ Thank you very much , ’ and she told me they were going to send me a prize of — wait for it — 5 . |
| 25 | Yes , I have at last , and the I 'm sure that they lied in their teeth , they they assured me they had written to me after my second letter in March , er in fact , and they said they were going to send me a photocopy of that , in fact er she wrote me a letter in June , so I do n't believe the other one existed , |
| 26 | And he thought they were going to buy him a parrot . |
| 27 | It was n't working out like he 'd thought and it was going to take him a lot longer than he 'd planned . |
| 28 | He could n't actually tell me what was going on because that would put him in shtuck but he was trying to tip me the wink . |
| 29 | He was going to give her a job . |
| 30 | Well , he was going to give them the chance , was n't he ? |