Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pers pn] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | Last year they were calling it Howards ' Way with horses , this year they 've been calling it Howards ' Way without boats . |
| 3 | She asked it you were saying it Lynne and Melanie as though it was a statement of a fact . |
| 4 | said it was their lot , their friends that were doing it Chris , we did n't say they were going . |
| 5 | PLO chairman Yassir Arafat was quoted in the Financial Times of Oct. 16 as telling US reporters that he was " consulted … day and night by phone " by Ashrawi and Husseini in Jerusalem and that , as they met with Baker in Washington on Oct. 10-11 , he was faxing them PLO endorsements of specific negotiating positions . |
| 6 | little bits , little bits and I 'll buy you your tobacco Neil nothing much but little bits of something now if he were working and could give me the full sixty that is thirty for his room and thirty for his food so that I did n't have to worry about th actually paying for him but he was paying me Paul is going to pay me fifty that 's thirty pounds in , I made a rule to Paul that he is going to eat thirty pounds worth of food and there are only twenty pounds in my profit and then the other rule , a man called Alan this window cleaner he wants the room that I 'm in at the moment |
| 7 | In the 1130s the Anglo-Norman poet Gaimar [ q.v. ] was misnaming him Edgar , and telling a rousing tale of his adventures , complete with dialogue . |
| 8 | ask her about , she was calling me Sharon on the train cos I was wearing a skirt , she 's going oh Sharon , she was drunk |
| 9 | Well Val was telling me Caroline got the kids all in a row and said something about erm you know , more or less to say well I want to leave your father she said |
| 10 | every one , every one of us no ? it was a good laugh like so it was Donna was telling me Jamie , Donna says and he says no and he says you would n't two time me and she says aye |