Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | I were flying the next day to Benidorm I 've had trouble all the time with me back |
2 | The trouble is , I ca n't for the life of me remember what I was wearing the last time I went to see Angy , or on the day she died . |
3 | I was digging the last row next to the gravel path when my father returned . |
4 | I was quite wet when I was drinking the first Martini . |
5 | ‘ I told him if he would n't stay in Copenhagen with me than I was catching the first plane home ! ’ |
6 | James Brown when receiving our first album ‘ Box Frenzy ’ — ‘ I was expecting the first Clash album and got the third Sham 69 album ’ — which we thought was a bit of a compliment . |
7 | Jane also felt she was not really in a position to refuse : ‘ I was missing the fifth years , which meant I had lots of ‘ free time ’ , so I was in a position where really I could n't refuse to do it . ’ |
8 | I I found it when I was driving the last time . |
9 | On June 9 a bomb placed on the roof of the headquarters of the Honourable Artillery Company in London injured 17 civilians , mainly students , who were attending a 21st birthday party there . |
10 | Now let's say we 've done that we thought there were three people here so you though you were getting a third right . |
11 | AS YOU WERE reading the last issue of Wood News with your feet up and drinking a cup of hot coffee , John Hill , coupling machine operator at Fireater , was running through the cold , wet weather of Great Yarmouth in training for the London marathon . |
12 | With her uplifted left foot she was shoving the next foster mother square in the mouth . |
13 | She was organising the next bout , to take place soon after the election , shortly before she died . |
14 | She was seeking the next angle , the next approach , knowing that she 'd have at the most a couple of minutes to make her pitch . |
15 | Getting out her suitcase , and with her fury riding high , she began throwing her belongings into it — she was catching the first plane out of there ! |
16 | She could n't quite believe she was taking the first few tentative steps back towards her marriage . |
17 | It was late in the day and she was taking the last of the sun . |
18 | Lisa Isherwood of Wales sustained a broken leg during a Home International foursomes tie against Scotland , after she slipped and fell on wet ground as she was leaving the 8th green . |
19 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
20 | It was a Herculean task , and she 'd died just as she was beginning the nineteenth volume , with no end in sight , but even the one book in Godolphin 's possession was enough to guarantee that he would search for the others until his dying day . |
21 | For what Mrs Maugham thought one week to be wholly disgraceful , she was praising the next , and with no apparent consciousness of discrepancy . |
22 | Helen wondered if she was seeing the first moment of a gathering hysteria . |
23 | She was re-reading the last line of the message which had n't sunk in till now . |
24 | She was sipping the last of her coffee , however , when it suddenly came to her just how much Ven had been in her thoughts since she had awakened , also how very much she wanted to see him again ! |
25 | He had knocked on the back door while she was kneading the first batch of bread dough she had ever made in her life — something to do , she thought crossly , with coming to the country — and she had gone to answer him with floury hands and a frown . |
26 | There were still bits and pieces left to organize for the coming weekend , when she was hosting the first major social gathering of the new year . |
27 | For some reason , she was finding the last few pages difficult to sort out . |
28 | It was as she was approaching the last crest before the house came into sight that she suddenly had to stamp on the brakes as a Land Rover came pitching round the hillside . |
29 | James Halden returned just as she was finishing the last frill , and she jumped up as soon as she heard his steps on the stair . |
30 | What a man like Siward would do , who was hiding a second time in a forest and had blown the withdrawal within minutes of the Normans ' arrival . |