Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [v-ing] to [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway I were , I were talking to that lady and er she were on about you , and she says about putting your name |
| 2 | ‘ I thought you were referring to that episode at Rocamar . |
| 3 | " The man , " Katherine snapped , " what was the man doing while you were chatting to this woman ? " |
| 4 | I thought you said you were going to this match ! : - ) |
| 5 | ‘ They waited while you were talkin' to that guy , Ben . |
| 6 | It 's like other day , we were talking to this bloke like , and he were on about businesses , says you ca n't underst , oh he said something about finances , how difficult it is to get finance to start a business up and er , he said , I know , he said you ca n't me , he said . |
| 7 | They were looking to each other now anxiously . |
| 8 | It was as if they were clinging to each other , and they could n't let go . |
| 9 | We think , but we do n't really know what they were saying to each other behind closed doors . |
| 10 | ‘ A British guy running 10.04 , ’ they were saying to each other . |
| 11 | She wondered what they were saying to each other . |
| 12 | They were talking to each other loudly as if to keep lurking wood-spirits at bay , and I did vividly remember that teenage spooky feeling of being alone in wild woodland and at the mercy of supernatural eyes . |
| 13 | Did I tell you they were going to this hotel last week . |
| 14 | Some of them were whispering to each other . |
| 15 | Simon had n't inherited yet ; the house was entailed of course and as there was no direct male heir ( my being what I am ) it looked as if it were going to some cousin overseas , only later it became known that Mary had had a posthumous son : he 's still a minor — here 's another member of my family whom I have n't met , I seem to have an assortment . |