Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was using stiffer rods and he was using softer ones . |
| 2 | The point of the story is that when I was using softer rods and he favoured stiffer ones we both caught , relatively speaking , no fewer fish than we do today . |
| 3 | ‘ Franca , girl , forgive me for walking in , I had the key , remember , from when you gave it to me when I was staying here when I was getting better . |
| 4 | When I was getting better , he told me some of the local news . |
| 5 | We were on holiday in the Aegean when I was getting better from this talking thing and she was reading Crime and Punishment , and I used to watch her toes and wonder which part she had got to . |
| 6 | said I was getting better she 's telling off . |
| 7 | Speaking of the wind , it was getting stronger and I was getting colder . |
| 8 | I was whirling it round and round — I was getting tireder and tireder and wondering how long I could go on … |
| 9 | I was getting warmer . |
| 10 | I was becoming thinner and thinner . |
| 11 | And as the disease progressed , all the anxieties became more difficult to ignore — necessarily , because I was growing older and , in my regressive , pre-pubertal state , more of an anomaly than ever among my peers . |
| 12 | Well the , the bed , there were no spring beds in , that came into my life until many years after , were the old straw palliasses , which were really more hygienic to sleep on than your spring beds , because you get the lumbar trouble with a straw palliasses cos it was just hip firm , I give you an instance I used to , as I was growing older I used to fold my trousers and put them under the mattress to press my trousers so I 'd always got a nice crease in my trousers , they were so solid that er you got y you did n't even get any wrinkles in your trousers in those days . |
| 13 | I flew too high , and then I was going higher , faster , I could n't stop , like a feather finding a vent I just shot up to the spindle , and there I stuck , dangling in zero-g I kicked and flailed , I was hopeless , I had no idea how to get away I had n't got anything I could throw I could n't even see straight anyway , my eyes were tearing The pollution was pretty bad up there , I started coughing , and then I could n't stop |
| 14 | Keeping the best for last , as I was saying earlier ? |
| 15 | Within the hour I was feeling better and ready to tackle the billeting office . |
| 16 | I thought that this was a most extraordinary conversation to be having about one 's intended groom , but I was feeling lighter . |
| 17 | " No , and I was glad to see him , even though he did say I was gettin' fatter . |
| 18 | She was looking calmer . |
| 19 | Physically , she was looking better than Harriet had seen her in a long while . |
| 20 | She was looking better already and he nodded in satisfaction . |
| 21 | She was looking younger now , and brighter-eyed . |
| 22 | Or if she was looking older , if she had changed at all . |
| 23 | And when we got there she was shouting louder than anyone ! ’ |
| 24 | It was noticeable , among other things , that she was drinking faster than anybody else . |
| 25 | She was getting better at knowing what to do when people were sick and asked them how it had happened . |
| 26 | I think that 's why she said she was getting better when she was n't . ’ |
| 27 | But as the evening moved on she discovered she was getting better at her job . |
| 28 | ‘ She had been depressed during the last 18 months but I thought she was getting better . |
| 29 | After all that , she 'd been just ‘ Madam ’ for a while , which might have indicated that she was getting older or grander , except that she always looked just the same , never any older . |
| 30 | I was laughing about with er what 's , I 'm gon na write er a note to my chi er letter to my children for , you know , before very long no good thinking about it , well you would n't think about it after when it 's too late , but my kids have been a you know a great comfort the four from my first Joan , Joan has too , she 's been a dear but we had the same problems when she was getting older . |