Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [v-ing] a new [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ It 's not as though I were writing a new book , ’ Elinor said crossly . |
| 2 | If I were interviewing a new act , I would try to ascertain their sheer punishment factor . |
| 3 | At first , I was angry ; then I was living a new life — other things to think about , other people to consider . |
| 4 | For instance , I was writing a new song and it was making sense and suddenly these words came into my head : Once there was two Mexican women/ran over the hill/ripped off their skin/and ate it up . |
| 5 | Well she did n't persuade me but she said she thought it was a very good idea because it was on all the new sets and while I was buying a new set I might as well |
| 6 | Noticing I was buying a new battery for my headtorch he grinned knowing and said : ‘ Oh-oh ’ Somebody in for another Hebbert epic ? ’ |
| 7 | I was getting a new typewriter . |
| 8 | That 's where you met Colin and told him I was having a new car . |
| 9 | SUMMERCHILD : I was putting a new tape in . |
| 10 | What it is le let's just sort of get things , as I say in a new build situation if you were having a new house built |
| 11 | He saw that through them she was imagining a new life . |
| 12 | ‘ We were fencing a new corral today . |
| 13 | We thought we were building a new Jerusalem , but these people seem hell bent on destroying Babylon . |
| 14 | And with the help of all these er er pieces of equipment er we found in general that we were reaching a new standard of production , where we were increasing it er and we were able to bargain more strongly and more favourably on behalf of our members . |
| 15 | Anyway , I 'd been staying with them in darkest Kensington , at Mr Gibbon 's very grand , three-storeyed town-house in Ascot Square , just off Addison Road , and working at a branch of Mondo-Food on Victoria Street ( they were trying a new line in Haggisburgers at the time and the manager thought my accent would help shift them . |
| 16 | When the first giraffes began to stretch their necks to reach the leaves of trees , they were choosing a new habit that would guide the future development of their species over a vast period of time . |
| 17 | They were dedicating a new runway at the airport . |
| 18 | Instead of reverting automatically to the universal European scholarly tongue of Latin , they were gaining a new confidence in the language of their own people . |
| 19 | They were researching a new power source that was being developed by a Danish engineer . |
| 20 | Mr MacGregor , the Chairman of British Steel in 1980 , would not have chosen either place if he were starting a new industry today . |
| 21 | The Unity Campaign could hardly avoid the accusation that it was creating a new organization to invite Labour Party members to work together with Communists , which every Labour Conference decision had forbidden over the previous ten years . |
| 22 | At SunWorld in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago it was displaying a new range of X-terminals based on the MIPS R3000 chip and proprietary ASIC chip called XSA ( X-server accelerator ) . |
| 23 | The Parliamentary Party was not in fact electing a prime minister ; it was electing a new party leader . |
| 24 | By adopting the Scottish term , Free Church , instead of Nonconformist , the movement was showing that it was making a new start with an eye to the twentieth , not to the nineteenth or even eighteenth century . |
| 25 | When Charles appeared for dinner , Diana noticed that he was sporting a new pair of cufflinks in the shape of two ‘ C's intertwined . |
| 26 | Chramn 's actions are best interpreted as those of a prince determined to have some share in the Merovingian kingdom : effectively he was creating a new kingdom in his father 's lifetime . |
| 27 | In a bizarre twist in the saga of the failure of Supercomputer Systems Inc , the company last week announced that it had abandoned efforts to find new investors to keep the company alive — and then Steve Chen immediately announced that he was forming a new company that will seek to create the world 's fastest computer . |
| 28 | He had some land near Port au Prince , and he was building a new town . |
| 29 | He was schooling a new st'lyan that Burun had given him . |
| 30 | ‘ A year ago , he was driving a new BMW 5-series car , but I last saw him in an E-registered Ford Fiesta . ’ |