Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pers pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1948 , 36 manufacturers ( including EMI , GEC and Marconi in Britain , and Philips in the Netherlands ) were paying him royalties for domestic radio sets . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She was laughing when you were asking him questions . |
| 4 | You were giving me instructions . ’ |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Finally , it got to the point where he was driving me nuts , because I could n't even find out the reason he was screaming so . |
| 7 | Portsmouth had , in fact , looked second best and the Lions ' Dutch triallist Romano Sion was causing them problems . |
| 8 | If they went for a drink everybody was calling them scabs and if they went anywhere then , some some had their cars sprayed with paint and oh they had everything done , they were all against them . |
| 9 | But then the dog savaged the 10 year old while he was feeding him biscuits at his home in Tuffley , Gloucester . |
| 10 | All the way there she was asking him questions : ‘ What are you going to do ? |
| 11 | Strange thoughts about his recent past were torn from his subconscious mind , as if the thing was asking him questions . |
| 12 | Well sometimes when I was asking you things like erm say if I asked you how many quarters to make a whole one ? |
| 13 | And , I mean , we , we was on about it one day , and she was only sat on the table next to us , ooh she was giving us daggers ! |
| 14 | She was reading him parts of a letter from some fellow with a foreign name . |
| 15 | Almost t' last good turn they did was buildin' them steppin'-stones acrost t' river . |
| 16 | ‘ I was hoping you guys could help me out . |
| 17 | Well , for instance , that she lived in a in an old vicarage , cos her husband had been a a , no a tri , priest in the Church of England and er we her house was haunted and she was telling us stories and sh she quite often saw the ghost , she was never worried , she never cos it never frightened her it was n't vicious or anything like that and she often saw it quite matter of fact . |
| 18 | She was offering them cups of tea and it was churlish to refuse . |