Example sentences of "and [pron] [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | and I was telling them about that Indian or Asian doctor at the City Hospital in the Maternity unit . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Me wages are in there and I was taking them to me ma . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 9 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 10 | You 'd hurt me so badly — there I was , head over heels in love with you , and you were asking me to be your mistress . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ! ’ |
| 14 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 15 | She teaches English , and she was telling me about this don who 's disappeared . |
| 16 | We were sitting there and she was telling me about Brian . |
| 17 | It was a song Mr Malik sang , and she was singing it to what must , surely , be his words . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I remember sitting helping to write the cards the night before and we were writing them off a typewritten sheet . |
| 20 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 21 | He had a curious feeling of release ; other people had taken portions of his grief upon themselves , and they were expressing it on his behalf . |
| 22 | The people of the Beastline were ranged directly ahead , facing her , as she had asked , and they were watching her with animal stillness . |
| 23 | Poor Mrs got two lots of children and they were driving her up the wall ! |
| 24 | that he 'd got a form and he was fetching it back in this afternoon and they was handing it over this afternoon . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |