Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were looking at that one |
| 2 | I were thinking about that bungalow , and , well actually it 's as far from our road , nearly as far from our road to there , as what is it from bungalow window to road . |
| 3 | Anyway I were , I were talking to that lady and er she were on about you , and she says about putting your name |
| 4 | know when I was looking for that |
| 5 | Yeah , I was looking at that myself yesterday actually and er if I include three , three Trident staff , erm there are thirty five individuals |
| 6 | from you and , and I was looking at that and ticking boxes and I was , I was almost not listening to what you were saying at times . |
| 7 | Ey I was looking at that one . |
| 8 | I was looking at that bloke in the Metro going fuck me |
| 9 | Yes , I , I was looking at that one just now . |
| 10 | What I did there was I had my Trio preamp going through a Boogie 295 power amp into a couple of Boogie Black Shadow speaker cabs and I was switching between that setup and the Fender Twin . |
| 11 | I was listening to that ! ’ |
| 12 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 13 | I do , I like , do you think I could have a copy of anything you 've got to date because lying in my desk this morning is something I have to prepare a briefing note for my chairman and I was thinking about that recent one , but I could n't put my hand on it Robert , absolutely updated on exactly where we are . |
| 14 | I was thinking about that project and erm but it is total is totally separate . |
| 15 | ‘ I was thinking about that today over lunch . |
| 16 | But then they suddenly listen to what you say and they think , well that 's funny , I was thinking about that when I was saying my prayers the other day . |
| 17 | Yeah , I was thinking about that but it 's got ta be vegetarian and have n't got the meat . |
| 18 | I was thinking about that . |
| 19 | I was thinking of that . |
| 20 | I was amazed during a recent visit to headquarters of the number of requests for posters and tickets I saw when I was leafing through that bible , the design it file . |
| 21 | Mind you , when I was skivvying for that Brixton fam'ly , the head of the fam'ly did n't 'alf take a fancy to me . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I was screaming at that critic who admires The White Hotel . |
| 23 | you know , it 's just pathetic and she 's so rude and nasty no mm that 's right yeah , yeah , yeah it 's the same yesterday when I was writing about that |
| 24 | And it was n't a shock when I got my first hit record because I was trying for that all our lives and so she backed me all the way . |
| 25 | I was trying for that one . |
| 26 | ‘ I was getting to that ! ’ |
| 27 | I was playing for that . |
| 28 | I was fucking like that and the thing come that way |
| 29 | I was asking about that . |
| 30 | I was talking to that presenter of that alternative-politics programme — what 's his name ? — and he said that he 'd got annoyed with a colleague because she criticized his pink bow-tie . |