Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] the " in BNC.
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1 | Thank you very much indeed for the smelly duck — or should I say scented , it is such a nice smell ! — and for the pretty scarf which , you may be surprised to hear , Mark admired when I was wearing it the other day though he had n't realized it was new and from you ! |
2 | I was teaching them the fine art of drinking Tequila Slammers , one of the fastest ways of getting spifflicated known to man . |
3 | Well , it 's funny , I was telling Stephen , my boyfriend , about that , and I was telling him the question and he said |
4 | I was telling you the truth . |
5 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
6 | Erm I 'm , I admit er that that was one I just bolted simply because I was taking it the wrong way round , I thought we had identified what was the priority , life insurance , P H I and pensions and was summarizing it whereas I should 've realized we 're doing that page towards the priority |
7 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
8 | On that morning I was giving them the latest news of Nigel . |
9 | This paradox remained until early 1974 , when I was investigating what the behavior of matter in the vicinity of a black hole would be according to quantum mechanics . |
10 | And again perhaps to follow up a previous question and the question is this , that in the first draft of the statement of faith which was presented two years ago , there was a very clear statement which said that Christ died for our sin in connection with the cross and I was wondering what the reasoning was which took away that very specific meaning of the death of the Christ into a much more general and ambiguous one in the statement before us today . |
11 | I was doing it the other day yes . |
12 | and she were telling me the guy that runs it wo n't let them talk to the customers , said that was pig ignorant surely |
13 | And you were telling me the other clubs men men had |
14 | 2 Remember all the details that you can — you may have forgotten some of them when you were telling it the first time . |
15 | I thought you were calling me the bearded wonder then . |
16 | Who do you think was making the audience laugh while you were giving them the full force of your personality ? |
17 | When she said , I do n't know , I think she was telling me the truth , she did n't know . |
18 | She was telling me the other day . |
19 | She was offering him the deputy to Hitler , through an intermediary who was a friend of George Vl and Winston Churchill . |
20 | She was asking herself the same question . |
21 | Hoping against hope that she was giving him the come-on at last , he readily accepted . |
22 | Desperate Ricky should n't think she was giving him the come-on , she had the door open before the car stopped . |
23 | Again she was giving him the opportunity to ask her to lengthen the period — or to indicate in some way that he had no wish for her to leave . |
24 | Her defence , that in providing for the poor she was doing what the HUD was supposed to do , earned her the nickname " Robin HUD " . |
25 | ‘ Well , she was doing it the first time I laid eyes on her ! ’ |
26 | She was tellin' me the ovver day she wants Fred ter try an' get that empty 'ouse next door ter make the place bigger . |
27 | She was berating me the whole time . |
28 | I thought we were getting her the one with the drawers one with a lockable cupboard is , |
29 | I thought we were getting her the one , but the only thing is the other has got drawers both sides has n't it ? if I remember rightly . |
30 | Well in the Midland Bank and they were wearing them the last time you were there . |