Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I jes ' ordered you t'take charge of the prisoners , told you I wuz goin' t'check on somethin' , an' took off . |
| 2 | ‘ All right , then , ’ he softly prompted , as though I were speaking lines , ‘ go on . ’ |
| 3 | Ann and I were fishing Forbes Castle Water . |
| 4 | Now if I were wearing suspenders and silk — ’ |
| 5 | Far , far away I could hear the slow , grinding sounds of traffic — but muffled , as if I were wearing earplugs . |
| 6 | I marked it as Tracey 's but I were taking Tracey 's book in were n't I ? |
| 7 | Whereas when you and I were buying houses it was oh it 's a long process and it ca n't be hurried . |
| 8 | Margaret and I were discussing Payroll computing options today . |
| 9 | Ken Bradshaw and I were singing songs to one another like a pair of humpback whales . |
| 10 | In the nightmare my father , the under-gardener , my brother and I were throwing sticks to bring down walnuts from the great tree halfway between our home and the Court . |
| 11 | I thought I were seeing things , blood . |
| 12 | As nearly all the children had freckles , I felt as if I were seeing spots before my eyes , and drew Mickey Mice in a trance , my hand and pen moving mechanically through a misty ocean of freckles , wave upon wave , every freckle asking for Mickey Mouse . |
| 13 | I noticed it when I were doing window other day |
| 14 | Well er no I were working Saturday morning |
| 15 | In the bedroom upstairs his wife and I were making love slowly . |
| 16 | I were making models when I were their age . |
| 17 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way . |
| 18 | And now we 've come to stage whereas I mean I were cleaning carpet every minute of day . |
| 19 | If I were playing tennis , I would put the ball back in the hon. Gentleman 's court by asking whether he thinks that those claims are genuine because they have been put through someone 's letter box and because they ask the recipient to sign the form and post it back . |
| 20 | One night when Terry , Frank , Brian and I were playing cards as Tom nodded off to sleep , Frank exclaimed , ‘ Incandescent , shit ! ’ |
| 21 | And all I could think of was the way that baby had felt in my arms , and inside I was hating God for doing this to me . ’ |
| 22 | I just got me coal and I was looking solvent and I 've only got so many weeks and I 've got to empty the stupid thing again . |
| 23 | I would drag one round the school , I was looking sort of like , like , cos Colin . |
| 24 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 25 | I now realise that I was really teaching social passivity and conformity , academic snobbery and the naturalness of good healthy competition , and that I was using maths as an instrument for achieving these things . |
| 26 | In order to do this I decided to work loosely with the oils as if I was using watercolours , thinning with genuine turpentine and allowing colours to bleed into one another . |
| 27 | Of his own interest in flying , Mr Tholen said : ‘ I was using air taxis a lot to go to the Continent when I was working at Billingham . ’ |
| 28 | In Hüsker Dü I was using Ibanez Flying Vees — the Rocket Roll Junior was the exact name , 1975 issue . |
| 29 | ‘ In the end I was acting mum to six orphaned baby hedgehogs — getting up to feed them every three hours , which is n't much fun . |
| 30 | Yeah , it 's exactly that kind of experience that I think has got me thinking about what I was saying before you came , well before we were just doing the coffee , about the idea of actually starting to draw , well I was calling contracts , but probably it 's more better called agreements , about you know , the theatre will do this , we will do that and |