Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was speaking after visiting the six protesters imprisoned under 28-day sentences for defying a court injunction not to take part in a mass protest at the site . |
| 2 | It seems that a new vocabulary was emerging for describing the physical events of women 's lives . |
| 3 | he sat up last night , he sat up last night we was gon na watch the ten o'clock movie on telly with me . |
| 4 | so he was gon na do the same for me , do a bit of shopping well I said you 'll get it like give you the money , so he says well I was gon na do the same but I said the only thing is when we go to the cash desk er , I said I 'm gon na leave you , I said I 'm not standing there |
| 5 | so he was gon na do the same for me , do a bit of shopping well I said you 'll get it like give you the money , so he says well I was gon na do the same but I said the only thing is when we go to the cash desk er , I said I 'm gon na leave you , I said I 'm not standing there |
| 6 | Well she was gon na have the three piece suite actually but she lives in a bungalow and of course the settee was a six foot settee which they do n't make now |
| 7 | But if that that was only I was gon na say the other thing , when you 're talking about damage you know , at one time I would suggest that a good many years , you would n't see any damage out there . |
| 8 | I was gon na say the Indian one , yeah . |
| 9 | I was gon na say the same to you . |
| 10 | Cos I was gon na use the same the same rules that B T use for their new customers . |
| 11 | He was concentrating on demolishing the last of the lime and liquorice sweets he had brought with him in his haversack from Partick , and he trod purposefully on the wet red leaves with his hiking-boots as he strode along . |