Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was either out and had n't switched on the answering machine or he was tormenting her by ignoring the telephone . |
| 2 | Yeah and I was watching it on This Morning and what it is it 's because most things you 've got in your kitchen like myself are all tested on animals and they do n't label it |
| 3 | Anyway our Darren came in , and I 'm gon na forget Darren came to the caravan and I was telling him about these wet sheets and beds and the mirrors done and what I was doing there and Oh he said and about the mattress he said and I said to him mattress , it 's still the same mattress . |
| 4 | and I was telling them about that Indian or Asian doctor at the City Hospital in the Maternity unit . |
| 5 | We had all heard rumours about the Legion 's paras , and I was holding myself to my vow made in the bathroom in Wales nearly ten years before . |
| 6 | Six years later she remembers , vividly , a match against Fiona Anderson in the Scottish Championship at North Berwick which was won by Gillian Stewart : " I had been listening to " The Mikado " before I set out and I was humming it in my head all the way round . |
| 7 | ‘ Me wages are in there and I was taking them to me ma . |
| 8 | but do n't get me wrong after a while I just gave up and I was getting them in bouts and I was getting through the Bonjela and the |
| 9 | So do I and I was just talking to her downstairs and I was asking her like the differences between here and the States , you know the boar cos she was in a boarding school before , and she was saying erm how you know just generally the people are nicer and the blokes talk to you not just because you 're cos they |
| 10 | When after I became a Christian I obeyed and was baptized , it was n't to make me a better person it was n't to make me er , someone who was , er more pious or more religious , or of having greater favour with God , it was done because he had commanded it in his word , and I was identifying myself with him . |
| 11 | And er and I was telling everyone I said , Oh I 'm going to and I was flinging everything over the you know . |
| 12 | Eighteen or twenty thousand pounds was rolling out of Apple a week and nobody was doing anything about it . |
| 13 | The order was for the production of material relating to the purchase by a client , Mrs G , of certain real property , the allegation being that she was a member of the family of another person who was suspected of being a drug trafficker and who was using her for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of such trafficking . |
| 14 | I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’ |
| 15 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 16 | She teaches English , and she was telling me about this don who 's disappeared . |
| 17 | We were sitting there and she was telling me about Brian . |
| 18 | It was a song Mr Malik sang , and she was singing it to what must , surely , be his words . |
| 19 | Can you not see what erm er this woman fainted into my arms and she was embracing me for letting her not take her fall . |
| 20 | ‘ The first time I met Samantha , ’ Bob says , ‘ I 'll never forget this , she was surrounded by these six guys and she was funking herself with a vibrator . |
| 21 | that he 'd got a form and he was fetching it back in this afternoon and they was handing it over this afternoon . |
| 22 | I mean , my mate , he went to hospital cos they said he was allergic to something and they was putting him in a thing that only |
| 23 | There was a white line around his mouth and he was watching her with undisguised lust , as if he wanted her and hated himself for being so human . |
| 24 | His lean and powerful body was relaxed in the black suit , long legs crossed towards her , chest turned towards her , and he was watching her with narrowed eyes , obviously rearranging his thoughts about her at a rate of knots . |
| 25 | This guy who lives round the corner had just come out and he 'd started up in business again and he was laying it on me a gram at a time and I was doing it out in bags . |
| 26 | He looked at her with his blue eyes that made you feel you were in the far distance and he was bringing you into focus gradually , like a ball magnetised to drop into his outstretched hand , be clasped by his fingers . |
| 27 | Laura gave a low moan as she struggled to sit up , one half of her still almost unconscious mind noticing that Ross must have recently had a shower , since his black hair was still damp and he was wearing nothing but a short white towel about his waist . |
| 28 | And then , almost at once , his iron control seemed to snap , and he was kissing her with a frenzied , pent-up , impatient longing that was totally beyond anything she 'd ever experienced before . |
| 29 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 30 | One time I did and he was tapping me on the shoulder saying , ‘ I 've broken a string ’ . |