Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A shady jeweller would want to know that , but the answer was helpful to the police whose next task after recovering the goods and identifying those handling them was to trace the true owners and discover when the theft had occurred . |
| 2 | What upset me was hearing the door locked . |
| 3 | I have added a 40W actinic and a reflector as I did not think I was seeing the true colours of my fish . |
| 4 | Lord knows how long I 'd have been stuck in here before they finally realised I was telling the truth . |
| 5 | I mean it 's like Jane I mean I was thinking the other day . |
| 6 | I mean I was picking the competencies off that er display and marketing guidance , interpersonal skills , group work , library and information work and equal opportunities . |
| 7 | I mean I was showing the figures and proved that er it was n't paying its way but to me it had always been our shop , you know , from when I was child and wonderful memories you know . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't know you were bringing the wife , ’ said Jacko . |
| 9 | Several reporters chuckled , one of them shouting , ‘ Did n't know you were editing the women 's page , Charlie . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But we did n't know she was leaving the child on her own , ’ cried Lily . |
| 11 | And , contrary to her belief , she found she was enjoying the atmosphere at Parkwood . |
| 12 | She glanced down , to discover she was hugging the very edge of the mattress . |
| 13 | Proud though he was of his wife , Charles could not help noticing she was stealing the limelight . |
| 14 | Many of them she admired , particularly the older students , and was astounded to find they were studying the Bible and not finding it boring . |
| 15 | My friend in Holborn rang a friend who rang the Chelsea police and found they were taking the accusation very seriously . |
| 16 | Around 65% of people with meters found they were paying the same as or less than they did under the old system . |
| 17 | But though they no longer imported some categories of finished products , many Third World manufacturers found they were importing the components , materials and technology for these products instead . |
| 18 | The three say they were issued the cash by a bank and did n't know it was phoney . |
| 19 | SHARES in Cable & Wireless received a sharp boost yesterday after the company disclosed it was discussing the sale of up to £750million worth of shares in its Hong Kong telecomunications subsidiary to the Chinese Government . |
| 20 | They will say ‘ I did n't know he was hoarding the tablets ’ or ‘ If only I had listened to what he was saying , maybe he was trying to tell me how he felt , and I was always too busy to listen . ’ |
| 21 | The Labour foreign affairs spokesman , Mr George Foulkes , yesterday demanded a government statement announcing it was abandoning the plan . |
| 22 | This is believed to be Eddy Shah , the media entrepreneur who has claimed he was offered the Edwards shares for £16m . |
| 23 | With his ostrich outfit , make-up and deliberately not playing the synthesizer in order to question playing the synthesizer , Brain soon found he was stealing the scenery from Bryan , the suave debonair bloke who led Roxy music … |
| 24 | Husband said : ‘ It went wrong , badly wrong , ’ then lit a match and Sims found he was holding the ball again . |
| 25 | But Preston found he was scanning the crowd at about the right height for an eight-year-old child , and it was only after a while that he realised he was looking for Uncle Titch . |
| 26 | The thing that really motivated me was seeing the 1968 Olympics ; I saw Thommie Smith and thought , ‘ God , that 's it ! ’ |
| 27 | One of the bigger problems was that Fergie believed I was taking the mickey out of him by either cheating or going soft and feigning injury . |
| 28 | Charles was n't sure whether Jacqui believed she was telling the truth or not . |
| 29 | Farrow says she was guaranteed the sum , even though she pulled out of the film in August after discovering Woody was having an affair with her adopted daughter , Soon-Yi Previn , 21 . |
| 30 | I hope she was telling the truth . |