Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] last [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 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 |
| 3 | I was playing last night Got ta learn this album I used to have ages and ages ago fucking . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was wondering last night if it might be the hand of fate . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ He asked me what I was doing last night , and then one or two questions about mother . ’ |
| 8 | That 's what I was doing last night . |
| 9 | The stuff I was doing last night . |
| 10 | No , for that job I was doing last night . |
| 11 | ‘ Did you know , ’ he asked , ‘ when you were improvising last night , a cat sat on your lap for a while ? ’ |
| 12 | You were bouncing last night were n't you ? |
| 13 | ‘ There 's just one last point , ’ said Blanche , ‘ the clothes you were wearing last night when I called round . |
| 14 | That dress you were wearing last night was quite a disguise . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | That means you were drinking last night . ’ |
| 18 | Like , what the hell did you think you were doing last night ? |
| 19 | That 's why I asked if you were babysitting last night . |
| 20 | She was recovering last night . |
| 21 | She had known what she was doing last night . |
| 22 | who was driving last night ? |
| 23 | What the one we were using last night ? |
| 24 | we were discussing last year . |
| 25 | That we were watching last night . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | Guess what we were doing last night . |
| 28 | and we were saying last year we could of done with having him for a bit |
| 29 | Encouraged , he said : ‘ Well , you remember what we were saying last night , about Scott Fitzgerald … ’ |
| 30 | You may remember that we were talking last autumn about gas prices hopefully continuing to rise natural gas by to rise during the rest of the year and in fact that did take place and it did have some impact on the domestic rig count in the United States which went up quite strongly in the last part of the year . |