Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pers pn] [noun sg] " 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 | They chose their brushes and were measuring them side by side . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They were fixing him breakfast . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Eventually the name was transferred , not least because the Spanish were calling it pina . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Because New York were giving me hell about employing you and I 've gone out on a limb . |
| 13 | We were giving them gold , they were handing us tin . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | The nomes sat in the gloom and wondered why on earth the humans , after a day like this , were giving them food . |
| 16 | By the time we were drinking it Mum had calmed down considerably . |
| 17 | We were giving them gold , they were handing us tin . |
| 18 | Think you were reading them upside down ! |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | Once the British soldiers came on Mary Duignan when she was bringing them tea and sandwiches . |
| 21 | And it was fine when Busacher was paying him attention , rebuking him for talking during someone else 's numbers , railing at him for rudeness , for lack of participation . |
| 22 | I must have fallen asleep , for I dreamed that a girl was kissing me open-mouthed , the touch of her tongue light as a butterfly , and her hand caressing , and I woke suddenly to find I was thoroughly roused . |
| 23 | Duke Michael was holding him prisoner somewhere in the Castle of Zenda . |
| 24 | I found some interesting things while I was doing all this : a home-made astrolabe I 'd carved , a box containing the folded-flat parts for a scale model of the defences around Byzantium , the remains of my collection of telegraph-pole insulators , and some old jotters from when my father was teaching me French . |
| 25 | Jean-Claude was giving me licence to determine what part of his past to conserve and what part to be rid of . |
| 26 | ‘ He was giving me work when no one else would and without him I would not have survived . |
| 27 | ‘ I was dreaming Hedy Lamarr was giving me head . ’ |
| 28 | My foot was giving me murder , and it got worse during the next few days , but I still had to go out and fodder the cattle . |
| 29 | I was giving them advice on how to handle the media . |
| 30 | Occasionally two or three rooks would straggle up to mob him from some tree or tiny patch of parkland they were trying to protect but he was going strongly and the wind was giving him support and direction . |