Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [v-ing] [pers pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | every one , every one of us no ? it was a good laugh like so it was Donna was telling me Jamie , Donna says and he says no and he says you would n't two time me and she says aye |
| 2 | Occasionally two or three rooks would straggle up to mob him from some tree or tiny patch of parkland they were trying to protect but he was going strongly and the wind was giving him support and direction . |
| 3 | I must have fallen asleep , for I dreamed that a girl was kissing me open-mouthed , the touch of her tongue light as a butterfly , and her hand caressing , and I woke suddenly to find I was thoroughly roused . |
| 4 | Tina herself was not a risk in this area because the man she had lived with longer than any other was paying her £50 a week for the children 's keep . |
| 5 | And gallant Spiderglass was taking them food and medicine . |
| 6 | The resolve had held , but the orange juice was giving him stomach ache . |
| 7 | I found some interesting things while I was doing all this : a home-made astrolabe I 'd carved , a box containing the folded-flat parts for a scale model of the defences around Byzantium , the remains of my collection of telegraph-pole insulators , and some old jotters from when my father was teaching me French . |
| 8 | Portsmouth had , in fact , looked second best and the Lions ' Dutch triallist Romano Sion was causing them problems . |
| 9 | The last mine was giving him trouble , partly because his position on the wall was so insecure . |
| 10 | After a little tense silence that made it seem as though the very air were holding it breath , he said very evenly , and with dangerous softness . |
| 11 | His daughter was auctioning her MG at Sotherby 's . |
| 12 | The nurse who assessed Mr Brown decided that his arthritis and the hernia were causing him pain , restricting his mobility and might endanger his safety . |
| 13 | Dear people who could hardly write for arthritis , who had to send aged husbands staggering out in the frost to find something suitable , people whom I had hardly seen and had exchanged no more than the shiest of glances were sending me pictures of daffodils , valleys , seas and mountains . |
| 14 | ‘ Because New York were giving me hell about employing you and I 've gone out on a limb . |
| 15 | Jean-Claude was giving me licence to determine what part of his past to conserve and what part to be rid of . |
| 16 | Strange thoughts about his recent past were torn from his subconscious mind , as if the thing was asking him questions . |
| 17 | And it was fine when Busacher was paying him attention , rebuking him for talking during someone else 's numbers , railing at him for rudeness , for lack of participation . |
| 18 | I will always remember undoing that first roller — I had forgotten to put the neutraliser on , it looked like a nightmare and all my mates were calling me poodle head . |
| 19 | ‘ I was dreaming Hedy Lamarr was giving me head . ’ |
| 20 | Well Val was telling me Caroline got the kids all in a row and said something about erm you know , more or less to say well I want to leave your father she said |
| 21 | My foot was giving me murder , and it got worse during the next few days , but I still had to go out and fodder the cattle . |
| 22 | Duke Michael was holding him prisoner somewhere in the Castle of Zenda . |