Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [det] [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 | I had a phone call , and you know that place I were going this afternoon ? |
| 5 | It was five-thirty in the morning , and when I finally got to sleep I was hating those birds . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I was eating some gnocchi with this Italian — I did n't say nookey . ’ |
| 9 | I was watching that film and thinking of her . |
| 10 | ‘ I was watching that nun talking to you — it seems to have given you quite a turn . ’ |
| 11 | Yeah , well when I was typing that bit — I actually said originally except Lorimer . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I was counting these pages last night and gave up at forty-two . |
| 15 | I was drawing these pictures in my head of walking across a tightrope and falling into a chasm . |
| 16 | And I was reaching some conclusions about the choice that Gharr had given me . |
| 17 | I did over Christmas , I did some Carlton and Alfy down there no , no that 's where I met , I had a Christmas holiday job , couple of days worked for him , I was lugging these vices up |
| 18 | I 'd be concerned as to whether I was wearing more layers of clothing than the other women , and whether anyone had noticed . |
| 19 | J.B. I was wearing this jumper . |
| 20 | ‘ If I thought I was causing any pain to the fish I would n't go fishing and I think all anglers feel that way , ’ he says . |
| 21 | ‘ The last time I went to see a specialist about my knee , I was ready to pack it in if he 'd told me I was facing another year out . |
| 22 | I had , of course , been told by my surgeon that everything he could see he had taken out , On the other hand , I had chosen to explore further on my own and I was learning that cancer has this nasty habit of playing possum . |
| 23 | ‘ I was thinking that responsibility , and maybe guilt , had turned Lachlan Cattanach onto the straight road . |
| 24 | Erm , I would be happy , I mean , I purposely , I put some lines in just because I was thinking that way at the time , but I 'd be very happy if other people would scribble it out , change it , throw it back at me , you know , I would like to see I suppose , just to see if we can erm , if that , because , because I have to say that although you know part of reading 's letter , erm , I feel it 's , it , it feels destructive and it feels very critical . |
| 25 | Actually I was wanting that Capri last night actually . |
| 26 | I therefore reminded him that the Emperor had authorized my journey , and told him that whether his soldiers came with me or not I was leaving that afternoon . |
| 27 | I am no less interested to observe that , for Eliot , who always seemed unhurried , ‘ there is plenty of time ’ could mean a period of not much more than three weeks for reading ( the Strachey book being pretty long ) , writing typing and dispatching : which , given the fact that Spender 's book had not arrived , that I was teaching all day and conducting some evening classes , I still consider a tight fit . |
| 28 | I was riding that bike yesterday and it was alright but I si slipped doing that . |
| 29 | ‘ I was struggling this morning because there is a frightfully long speech it becomes a feat of memory and if memory was the only element involved in acting then Leslie Welch the memory man would have been the greatest actor in the world . |
| 30 | It goes right into there , and I was staggering all day , you know when I would get up ? |