Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could think of individual old people who were inappropriately placed in long-stay settings , or who were creating excessive stresses at home on relatives … and I could see that something more substantial in the community needed to be provided . |
| 2 | What 's the problem with this new switchboard , has it settled down now or we were getting all sorts of complaints initially |
| 3 | When I left at two o'clock , Tally and I were addressing each other by first names ( ‘ Elliot ’ was strange to him and we settled for ‘ Ellix ’ ) and I was able to address the two waitresses by their first names without feeling uncomfortable . |
| 4 | Well they 've wanted a mid-field player and a good striker , now people well write letters to local press informing them of this , but they do n't seem to be prepared to do this , they , the managers want to do their own thing as far as I can see they think the people on the terraces do n't know anything , but Jim and I were saying last night they wanted a mid-field player for ages now all this season , a ball winner , they have n't had one since Willie used to play and |
| 5 | The red second hand was coming up to six-thirty , 14 January , and I was counting thirty-eight beats a minute , slower than ever , half the rate of two years ago . |
| 6 | So for instance if my backup window is an hour and that 's how long it take me to backup my database today , if had the backup server and I was using one device it took an hour , if I used two it would learn one dialect of S Q L. as |
| 7 | I could see my sister being nourished as I had been nourished , and I was demanding some sort of parity . |
| 8 | And I was reaching some conclusions about the choice that Gharr had given me . |
| 9 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 10 | And I was thinking awful things — like how I could get my revenge … ’ |
| 11 | I had , of course , been told by my surgeon that everything he could see he had taken out , On the other hand , I had chosen to explore further on my own and I was learning that cancer has this nasty habit of playing possum . |
| 12 | Oh I was bored to tears and I was eating whole time |
| 13 | It goes right into there , and I was staggering all day , you know when I would get up ? |
| 14 | Like when you were in the other week and I was taking that class |
| 15 | The first time I ever got it I what do you want me to do and he said right run across there and I 'd run now punch it , and I 'd be punching the you 'd be jumping and turning round , I could n't get the right one , and finally punch it and the would be coming , said quick hit that and I was getting all sort of |
| 16 | Then one day — I 'll always remember — I was staying at a friend 's house and I was sweeping this carpet and I had this vision . |
| 17 | This was a disappointment , since I had been striving even more to acquire expertise in Italian affairs , and I was doing some propaganda work for the BBC , some of which was ‘ beamed ’ to the Arab population of Libya . |
| 18 | And I was going ten minutes . |
| 19 | And y and I was paying eighteen pounds a week to be catered for . |
| 20 | Some of the authors were also aware of new approaches to the study of organic relationships that were being discussed in France and which were leading radical anatomists to challenge Cuvier 's authority . |
| 21 | Well at that particular time on the bureau , the means test was prevalent then and you were getting twelve shillings a week . |
| 22 | and Jim was lawnmowing and you were doing hard labour with Matt |
| 23 | and she 'd fell in it and she were having right fits . |
| 24 | bloody hell Rac I tell you what I saw Rachael today and she was looking right fat and all , it , it 's just |
| 25 | She had a past history of Crohn 's disease which was quiescent and she was taking oral contraceptives . |
| 26 | In her wisdom she seemed to be aware of the delicacy of the situation and she was taking great care not to say anything to embarrass her companion . |
| 27 | Well his sister 's erm a social worker as well in Manchester and she was going next week to spend a year in Romania |
| 28 | HER FORMAL SCHOOLING HAD ENDED AND SHE WAS ATTENDING SECRETARIAL COLLEGE . |
| 29 | I could see her paws sticking out through the wire door and she was making one hell of a racket . |
| 30 | She had put an old cardigan over the top , and she 'd rolled up the sleeves and she was shaking that bucket . |