Example sentences of "[pers pn] were get the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
| 2 | ‘ You called him when you were getting the drinks ! ’ |
| 3 | The things that I picked up on was erm when , when you started , I thought that overall I mean you were getting the message across and , and overall that , you know , erm there was a lot of the areas that you tackled very well , and you reverted back to your old self and you did a lot better . |
| 4 | Erm when you actually then moved on to start er start completing the , the C C Q you were asking , asking closed questions er you know you said , said to Martin can you tell me your wife 's name and he said yes and it went on about three or four times er yeah alright you were getting the names but you were having to ask two questions to actually get them because you were n't er were n't , you know , asking probe questions , you started off could you . |
| 5 | but there 's a right time and a wrong time for doing it , see cos basically if you were getting the money , the phone calls that were , that were done a since Christmas right , I 'm not sure how the bill runs , it probably runs December , January , February er I think they run a quarter on the phone bill , and its a three month period |
| 6 | I was laughing and you were getting the hump with it cos I knew I had it all on tape . |
| 7 | When you were getting the message , what did that consist of . |
| 8 | One ancient landowner said to me ‘ To tell you the truth , we were getting the information that the Portuguese were not having so much money or education , so we were not that keen to marry them ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ We did not believe that we were getting the best range of stock into Dillons , ’ says Adrian Bourne , group managing director for sales . |
| 10 | And er we were coming out of We were getting the tub out an and er me brother was at the front end of th It went off the rails and er as he pushed it back , I was at the back and it jammed me again the face , and broke this collar bone . |
| 11 | We were getting the sun were n't we ? |
| 12 | Er and we were getting the impression then we were only , not wanting to decry them Bettaware salesmen or Bettaware people , you had to go round now and stick catalogues through people 's doors and go back and |
| 13 | We were getting the sun were n't we ? |
| 14 | We went to Silverstone to do a go-kart race before a meeting there , and we both said how lucky we were to get the roles of these boys . |
| 15 | A BT letter told customers they were getting the system free for a three-month trial . |
| 16 | Gran had noticed it three evenings ago , when they were getting the breakfast things ready , and had pushed it behind one of the geraniums as if she did n't like the sight of it . |
| 17 | The appointment was all the more surprising within the Colonial Service where , contrary to common precedent , Macpherson had never been tried out as ‘ officer administering the government ’ ( OAG ) ; but those who had known him in Lagos a decade earlier at once recognized that they were getting the outstanding man of the Service . |
| 18 | And I remember hearing a story , er erm it was just they 'd got an old farmer he had a field of hay , just ready to cart and just as they were getting the horses , it came down to rain and they were all sheltering in the barn , and the said , More rain , more rest . |
| 19 | They were getting the best of it , too , for there were only serving-people left and a few armed men , since the rest went off north with the courier . |
| 20 | You ca n't away with er some bum figures like this one , it 's not good enough for the members to give , be given wrong information and I and I can tell you this we 'll be coming back again and then we would know and where they were getting where they were getting the seventeen homes |
| 21 | Yes , in that sense , in that sense , the unconscious thought was expressed but the , but the point was , i the anxiety as it were got the better of the dream , did n't it , if you woke up ? |