Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hilary was depressed at your long absence ; I was cheering her up with photographs of your sporting exploits , which hang , as you know , in the master bedroom . |
| 2 | When I was swimming I went to change and I found a swimming costume . |
| 3 | Partly , I was n't doing the work because I thought my tutor had decided I was a poof but , more importantly , I was dragging my feet because I was n't keen on the work itself . |
| 4 | Now it seemed to me that one thousand six hundred was initially as a result of survey work or shall we say investigation into the housing waiting list carried out by the York housing department , and I have to say that I have a certain respect for the York housing department , and they have a certain reasonable and good reputation within the region as a housing department , and so there seems to me that there is a gr a there is a potential to underestimate er the the affordable requirement that 's been put to you , another point erm I 'd just like perhaps to seek a little clarification from Mr Curtis , was was unfortunately I was looking something else up or my attention was diverted when he gave some figures for Ryedale and Selby , I think he said , and I 'll happily stand corrected on this , that if you take away the York requirement figure from his ten thousand four hundred for Greater York , then the remainder he would apportion to Selby and Ryedale , so that Selby got four thousand two hundred , sorry , so that Ryedale got four thousand two hundred and Selby got one thousand seven hundred , erm that does n't add up to ten thousand four hundred and I I I in total , and I I wondered where the rest was coming from , if I the point correctly . |
| 5 | Well I was looking her front door 's not locking . |
| 6 | I said I was looking I said where 's grandma , I put that ne table there is that alright ? |
| 7 | oh I was looking you see |
| 8 | He then went on to say that he had had a complaint from the men in the next room , that I was using what he could only describe as ‘ a female sex aid device ’ for long periods at night and first thing in the morning . |
| 9 | I 've be I was using what do you call it ? tablet but I 'd something . |
| 10 | Even if I was using him , a time of my choosing , to wash away the guilt … |
| 11 | ‘ Never once , during our association , did they guess that I was using them to further my revenge against the Wolfkings . |
| 12 | The idea was I was using them as sub-headings originally but then people were kept y'know slowing d it 's erm very hard to work out whether what you actually want is a good detailed set of notes . |
| 13 | I was using them . |
| 14 | Once or twice I started swinging very badly , but as I was using my only hand to stop myself bleeding to death , I was unable to do anything about it . |
| 15 | I was using my car as a weapon . ’ |
| 16 | For instance , she never specifically said : ‘ Do n't blame your mother for everything ’ , but she made me understand that I was using my mother as an excuse for the fact that I was n't happy a lot of the time . |
| 17 | Anyway , I was using it behind his back . |
| 18 | And then I was using it more or less daily for years … . |
| 19 | ‘ I knew it could n't be the murder weapon , ’ he gravely told Wickham , ‘ because I was using it on Friday evening , hours after MacQuillan was found dead . ’ |
| 20 | I knew too that that invitation was bound to come and I was dreading it . |
| 21 | I was calling her Nan Wendy was calling her my love was calling her Gran and she loved it . |
| 22 | And I was calling her Mrs . |
| 23 | I remember as clear as day , standing talking to Penny and I was calling their plumber , I 'll always remember that and er I was quite took back and Penny said ooh she 's been very good to me |
| 24 | Fact that I was calling him a murderer had nothing to do with it . |
| 25 | But you dare n't take the risk of trying it on in case I was calling your bluff and would refuse you . |
| 26 | Like that , I was shouting him . |
| 27 | ’ I heard little else because now I was shouting my own piece about Christianity . |
| 28 | In the dream , I was singing it in all me funny voices , from the squeaky one to the gruff one and it was a pile of bollocks . |
| 29 | I was singing it |
| 30 | I was singing it in , not in my feet I was going I was me going to do all the words |