Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] [noun] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was watching Stalag 17 with my grandmother and being felt up by a dirty old man . |
| 2 | Britain went on to beat Israel 4–1 at Eastbourne to regain their World Group status and Bates added : ‘ I was playing number two to John Lloyd in singles and that was great for me . ’ |
| 3 | I was filming Neighbours five days a week and then two or three nights a week we were gigging . ’ |
| 4 | well er , I , I , no , that 's , that 's , that 's not what I was saying , I was saying article eighty five then concerned with , what one could describe as a malign or bad prevention , restriction or distortion |
| 5 | So was I , I was doing camera two . |
| 6 | By then she was wearing size 24 clothes . |
| 7 | The financial consequences for Caltech have been very significant : by the early 1960s it was receiving $1¼ million a year for administering JPL . |
| 8 | In 1989 , industry claimed it was spending $34 billion a year to comply with pollution control legislation . |
| 9 | Brentano draws our attention to a difference which seems to have escaped Locke , at any rate when he was writing Book II , Chapter I of the Essay . |
| 10 | Minton 's largesse was attractive : Bernard still recollects how , at a time when he was earning £2 10s a week , in a timber yard off Greek Street , Minton astonished him with a gift of £10 , in effect a month 's wages . |
| 11 | Sartre 's argument for History as totalization , then , was already caught up in interminable difficulties by the time he was drafting Volume II of the Critique in 1958 . |