Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had n't realised I was resuming hostilities ! ’ |
| 2 | Yeah , it 's the , it 's the with the word natural is n't it that er you know people often use the word natural to mean good and right and therefore something you should do , but of course no not always I mean if I said to you death is natural , nobody here would think I was advocating suicide or that er we should n't have hospitals to try and save people 's lives I mean er when you say death is natural , what you mean is death is one of those things that we just have to put up with , we 'd rather we did n't but we 're all gon na have to face it in the end , some of us sooner than others er but erm but there we are . |
| 3 | As I said at the beginning I think one should be wary about using the word natural , because sometimes people use it you know to promote something you know like on advertising you know it 's natural , must be good for you , but at the same time there are certain things that are natural that are very bad for you like death and if I were to say you know death is natural , nobody would think I was advocating suicide of course not . |
| 4 | Eventually Malcolm realised I was telling Tommy and put me wise about how fly fat slags from Catford can be . |
| 5 | I realised I was missing Ilsa . |
| 6 | Yes , well Bev was asking , I mean I was doing housework , oh , I was doing bits and pieces you know , and er getting me coat and all that and er she was asking questions and all that and Liz said I 'll pick you up at twenty past eleven , so Bev said alright then , so she come off the phone said she 'd go and have a look and apparently erm , it must of been yesterday if , if Liz is telling the truth she said to whoever are you going to do anything about this ? |
| 7 | And now we 've come to stage whereas I mean I were cleaning carpet every minute of day . |
| 8 | Every time we kissed , you 'd know I was kissing Andrew in my heart . |
| 9 | Later Treat , who followed V as in Victim with other books in the same vein , was to say , " I did n't know I was writing police procedurals until somebody invented the term and said that was the kind of thing I was writing . " |
| 10 | ratatouille which is easy to make , I did n't know I was making ratatouille |
| 11 | And then it just depended , it 's up to you to get yourself so if you know you 're going , well say I was doing Hayes . |
| 12 | Dexter was still mulling over the scene in which Nicola pretended she was taking drugs . |
| 13 | Say you were called Robin , for instance . |
| 14 | Well you see it may be important where the information came from , you did n't get it from the cards , you say you were getting information from all directions . |
| 15 | Oh yeah we did n't know we were doing interviews at this stage |
| 16 | They say we were praising Hitler . |
| 17 | But I was thinking if we you know , if I knew sort of what the sort of philosophy was behind it I might be able to incorporate that into , the office meetings and say we were having team briefings . |
| 18 | And one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abuse at him saying , you are not the Christ ! |
| 19 | Detective Chief Superintendent Barry Stewart also disclosed they were studying security video film from the Gateshead gas depot . |
| 20 | ‘ I remember I was at a council meeting and they mentioned they were having difficulty letting an old shop on the end of Redcar pier , ’ said Mr Brook . |
| 21 | Four years earlier he told Boswell that the difference between the two was that whereas Rousseau talked nonsense and knew he did — because he talked it so well — Monboddo , who talked an inferior brand , did not know he was talking nonsense . |
| 22 | ‘ Did you know he was contemplating remarriage ? ’ |
| 23 | I expect it was said Pegs but you better be careful Tim . |
| 24 | Of course he has he was drinking Saturday afternoon to Saturday night , Sunday afternoon and the Sunday night not Monday night but again last night . |
| 25 | And Northumbrian Water reported it was extracting water from the river once again after inlets at Broken Scar Treatment Works , near Darlington , were closed as a precautionary measure on Tuesday night , and emergency supplies brought into use . |
| 26 | He spent a world record £13m on Gianluigi Lentini last year and some observers say it was to stop others having him , not because Milan needed him . |
| 27 | Dauntless found he was having trouble remembering how to speak . |
| 28 | In the Epilogue to his great biography of Adolf Hitler , Alan Bullock comments : ‘ The Germans , however , were not the only people who preferred in the 1930s not to know what was happening ad refused to call evil things by their true names . ’ |
| 29 | Charles stated that he did not know what was to take place , and would not have entered St Peter 's basilica if he had known . |
| 30 | I took messages to the Lord Buckingham , pretending I was delivering suits or looking for trade at his London house . ’ |