Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were keeping it a secret and they were going to take him some place where they sold parrots . |
| 2 | ‘ You were pushing it a bit today , Fran . |
| 3 | If we were paying them a salary then of course it 's up to us whether we have them at sitting at home doing nothing , they would n't they 'd soon get bored with it . |
| 4 | He started living lavishly and tried to extort more and more money from the government who were paying him a tax-free pension of $1,050 a month . |
| 5 | Whether that was down to the powers that be I do n't know ; perhaps they were teaching me a lesson for daring to complain about where I was put . |
| 6 | She told them about her house and that the managers were calling her a thief . |
| 7 | They were sending us a message . ’ |
| 8 | And they rang up , and they said were sending you a list of what we expect to be available in the way of food at Christmas because we always have the same thing . |
| 9 | ‘ If you were to give me a ha'penny I might tell you different ’ |
| 10 | THE campaigners who took their seasonal message to the banks yesterday were doing them a favour . |
| 11 | It was as if I were doing him a big favour . |
| 12 | ‘ Just one , ’ she said graciously , managing to make it sound as though she were doing him a big favour . |
| 13 | This afternoon you came to my office as if you were doing me a favour . |
| 14 | Now you were doing it a very neat way , a quick way , of doing it all in one go , were n't you ? |
| 15 | It 's funny how er th trends change , but that was a was quite a common occurrence was that , men feeling ashamed of what they 'd got but trying er er in terms of these magazines giving them as if they were doing you a favour . |
| 16 | These problems and a long evening incarcerated below decks without fresh air were giving her a headache . |
| 17 | The new publishers were giving him a launch party and wanted names for the guest list . |
| 18 | When Sara glanced back a few moments later , she saw that five liverymen had descended upon the urchin and were giving him a beating . |
| 19 | Willy-nilly , he was now the star of The Hooded Owl , and the rest of the cast were giving him a taste of the treatment afforded to stars . |
| 20 | I hoped the u s authorities were giving him a hard time . |
| 21 | ‘ Th'did more for me when Garty were giving me a beating . ’ |
| 22 | That same day he told me , as if he were giving me a magnificent present , that he thought he could pull strings and have me posted with him . |
| 23 | No , I thought she were giving them a pound and then taking change off them , she were getting change off them or summat were n't she . |
| 24 | Too often I was asked to bowl defensively , brought into the attack to stop the flood of runs when batsmen were giving us a caning . |
| 25 | She give us all these , like diseases and we had to learn parrot learn them the definition for them cos she were giving us a test on them . |
| 26 | And , and of course needlework , but erm they were mainly the , I suppose they were giving you a good er grounding as they 'd call it in those days . |
| 27 | As Coleman 's real job was to file back-channel reports on the operations of DEA Nicosia , the DIA was hardly likely to have told Hurley that they were lending him a full-time agent . |
| 28 | Even after five years they were finding it a bit difficult in Oxford , you see , a bit sticky . |
| 29 | Cos , they was telling us about the weave for the white people and they were showing us a booklet and the |
| 30 | He was singing I do n't know why I love you , but I do , and a holiday couple in shades of beige were making it a waltz of dance-class precision . |