Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pers pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While they were bringing me food , I wondered whether to pick up a handful of the little men and throw them to their death . |
| 2 | The nurse who assessed Mr Brown decided that his arthritis and the hernia were causing him pain , restricting his mobility and might endanger his safety . |
| 3 | They were pushing it east , towards the City . |
| 4 | It was n't long before Wall Street wooed Koons away with the prospect of higher wages as a commodities broker , which the then-aspiring artist claimed he needed to produce sculptures that were costing him $3,000 a shot . |
| 5 | They chose their brushes and were measuring them side by side . |
| 6 | Now those were the issues that were leading us sir had left us to make an objection to this structure plan that we thought erm the detailed papers on it were sent to the county in our in our objections , they led us to by a series of calculations to come to the view that around about a hundred hectares would be more appropriate for Harrogate , this is in addition to its Greater York supplement , erm than what is now settled upon which is sixty hectares . |
| 7 | By 1948 , 36 manufacturers ( including EMI , GEC and Marconi in Britain , and Philips in the Netherlands ) were paying him royalties for domestic radio sets . |
| 8 | They were fixing him breakfast . |
| 9 | After a little tense silence that made it seem as though the very air were holding it breath , he said very evenly , and with dangerous softness . |
| 10 | For instance , in the hospital they were calling me Mrs , because er the stigma er , is so much , and I mean er , I even get called a single parent and I 'm not ! |
| 11 | I will always remember undoing that first roller — I had forgotten to put the neutraliser on , it looked like a nightmare and all my mates were calling me poodle head . |
| 12 | Eventually the name was transferred , not least because the Spanish were calling it pina . |
| 13 | Last year they were calling it Howards ' Way with horses , this year they 've been calling it Howards ' Way without boats . |
| 14 | Dear people who could hardly write for arthritis , who had to send aged husbands staggering out in the frost to find something suitable , people whom I had hardly seen and had exchanged no more than the shiest of glances were sending me pictures of daffodils , valleys , seas and mountains . |
| 15 | I write them letters , I get people to send er like Photo Gallery in Cardiff , erm I rang them up , they were sending us stuff and it was addressed to a woman that used to be in the ph er activities officer about fou three years ago . |
| 16 | I could n't eat , because of the cuts , could n't drink — they were feeding us milk through straws — and my face was beginning to get septicaemia as we lay in this hut with just this little oil- lamp , and the mosquitoes at night would come and sit on the wounds , and I could n't stop thinking about what was going to happen next in my life , and we had no newspapers and I did n't know what was happening and I could n't cry because it pulled the stitches . |
| 17 | She asked it you were saying it Lynne and Melanie as though it was a statement of a fact . |
| 18 | She was laughing when you were asking him questions . |
| 19 | said it was their lot , their friends that were doing it Chris , we did n't say they were going . |
| 20 | You were giving me instructions . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Because New York were giving me hell about employing you and I 've gone out on a limb . |
| 22 | We were giving them gold , they were handing us tin . |
| 23 | They were coming over in bloody gangs , right , there was the little ducks , you know the ones with green heads , so we were giving them bread and then all of a sudden the other side |
| 24 | The nomes sat in the gloom and wondered why on earth the humans , after a day like this , were giving them food . |
| 25 | By the time we were drinking it Mum had calmed down considerably . |
| 26 | We were giving them gold , they were handing us tin . |
| 27 | Think you were reading them upside down ! |
| 28 | aye that 's exactly what he was on about , getting interviewed on that , I mean I 've see the trailer on it , they were showing them scenes , he 's sick of being typecasted as a hard macho man in films , he wants to do something different family films |
| 29 | And er within a few months we 'd got the thing going till they were blowing out , and we were making it hand over fist you see ? |
| 30 | Once the British soldiers came on Mary Duignan when she was bringing them tea and sandwiches . |