Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | I was refusing second helpings of food , asking unfailingly for small helpings , and skipping optional meals like tea or Sunday breakfast . |
| 3 | I was trying last year to try to see if I could get a erm an Indian , you know when we sort of do looking at Asia |
| 4 | I was playing last night Got ta learn this album I used to have ages and ages ago fucking . |
| 5 | Now , my theory that I was proposing last week about preferential parental investment in sexy sons or little boys who showed phallic behaviour , is a consequence of the Trivers Willard principle , because basically what it says is that little boys who advertised , as it were , in their childhood , evidence of their own adult reproductive success by precocious sexuality towards the women of the family and aggression towards the males , might be rewarded by preferential parental investment , a Trivers Willard effect in other words , and if , when they grew up , those oedipal sexy sons were in fact more reproductively successful , then the result would be a kind of self-perpetuating cycle of parental investment in oedipal sons who then grew up to be more reproductively successful than non-oedipal sons and , and so on . |
| 6 | You knew before you shut your door in my face last night that I was having second thoughts ! ’ |
| 7 | I was wondering last night if it might be the hand of fate . |
| 8 | Well I think the the er other point I was making last week was that erm this whole are of learning theory is erm y'know a very traditional area . |
| 9 | ‘ He asked me what I was doing last night , and then one or two questions about mother . ’ |
| 10 | That 's what I was doing last night . |
| 11 | The stuff I was doing last night . |
| 12 | No , for that job I was doing last night . |
| 13 | Her misery was made complete because she was separated from her two sons who were flying first class . |
| 14 | ‘ Did you know , ’ he asked , ‘ when you were improvising last night , a cat sat on your lap for a while ? ’ |
| 15 | You were bouncing last night were n't you ? |
| 16 | ‘ There 's just one last point , ’ said Blanche , ‘ the clothes you were wearing last night when I called round . |
| 17 | That dress you were wearing last night was quite a disguise . ’ |
| 18 | The black number you were wearing last night was still lying on the bathroom floor in a sodden heap when I found it this morning . ’ |
| 19 | It 's no wonder you were quarrelling last night — he had you backed into a corner a couple of times with facts you did n't know . |
| 20 | That means you were drinking last night . ’ |
| 21 | Like , what the hell did you think you were doing last night ? |
| 22 | That 's why I asked if you were babysitting last night . |
| 23 | She was recovering last night . |
| 24 | Well his sister 's erm a social worker as well in Manchester and she was going next week to spend a year in Romania |
| 25 | She had known what she was doing last night . |
| 26 | who was driving last night ? |
| 27 | What the one we were using last night ? |
| 28 | we were discussing last year . |
| 29 | That we were watching last night . |
| 30 | Dan man you 've got th Dan you know the tape that we were recording last night , you 've got ta hear it yeah there 's this bit , yeah , where erm Alex just walks off yeah with the Walkman yeah and he goes into the toilet |