Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I left at two o'clock , Tally and I were addressing each other by first names ( ‘ Elliot ’ was strange to him and we settled for ‘ Ellix ’ ) and I was able to address the two waitresses by their first names without feeling uncomfortable . |
| 2 | I were gon na report it today then I got talking with gaffer I were sorting this job out |
| 3 | I were telling you about Irene , I were filling this thing in and I put right , sixty four I were gon na put sixty four , that were it . |
| 4 | When I first started I were getting fourteen shilling a day . |
| 5 | Every time I took a big breath I were getting short pains all down this side ? |
| 6 | Well they 've wanted a mid-field player and a good striker , now people well write letters to local press informing them of this , but they do n't seem to be prepared to do this , they , the managers want to do their own thing as far as I can see they think the people on the terraces do n't know anything , but Jim and I were saying last night they wanted a mid-field player for ages now all this season , a ball winner , they have n't had one since Willie used to play and |
| 7 | I had a phone call , and you know that place I were going this afternoon ? |
| 8 | It was five-thirty in the morning , and when I finally got to sleep I was hating those birds . |
| 9 | Stockholm-based DJ Dr Alban — who has shot to No 4 with It 's My Life admits : ‘ I was drilling this guy 's tooth when all of a sudden blood started spurting everywhere . |
| 10 | I was using stiffer rods and he was using softer ones . |
| 11 | So for instance if my backup window is an hour and that 's how long it take me to backup my database today , if had the backup server and I was using one device it took an hour , if I used two it would learn one dialect of S Q L. as |
| 12 | Cos I was using that issue at that time , but we always make the proviso that if things change , you may have to alter your mind about where your money 's placed . |
| 13 | I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques . |
| 14 | I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques . |
| 15 | The point of the story is that when I was using softer rods and he favoured stiffer ones we both caught , relatively speaking , no fewer fish than we do today . |
| 16 | I was singing little Hareton to sleep when Catherine came in . |
| 17 | Training hurt and it was always a battle to force myself out , but after six months I was managing sixty miles a week and sometimes doing fifteen miles non-stop in a hundred minutes . |
| 18 | ‘ I was eating some gnocchi with this Italian — I did n't say nookey . ’ |
| 19 | Oh I was bored to tears and I was eating whole time |
| 20 | I was watching that film and thinking of her . |
| 21 | ‘ I was watching that nun talking to you — it seems to have given you quite a turn . ’ |
| 22 | I was watching Central News , Mr was on it and all , like you know that bloke that comes in with his wife with the grey hair that 's always really moody , they have a bottle of Frascati and always drink las |
| 23 | Yeah , well when I was typing that bit — I actually said originally except Lorimer . |
| 24 | As I was typing these words , a young friend phoned to tell me about the wonderful summer holiday he had just had with his father . |
| 25 | Although we are n't a politically active family , I was discussing Prime Minister John Major 's plan for a classless society with my sister Lynn when my niece Natalie said : ‘ Will this mean we wo n't have to go to school any more ? ’ |
| 26 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 27 | I was refusing second helpings of food , asking unfailingly for small helpings , and skipping optional meals like tea or Sunday breakfast . |
| 28 | ‘ I was pursuing two Germans who were attempting to escape . ’ |
| 29 | I was crouching just feet away , terrified that at any moment one of the massive males would charge into me in the desperate struggle . |
| 30 | I was counting these pages last night and gave up at forty-two . |