Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were to put it in er stewed apples or something I would n't eat the actual ginger but in a casserole , it 's nice . |
| 2 | In the dream , I was singing it in all me funny voices , from the squeaky one to the gruff one and it was a pile of bollocks . |
| 3 | I was accompanying him in the show anyway and I think we just had the nerve . ’ |
| 4 | Six years later she remembers , vividly , a match against Fiona Anderson in the Scottish Championship at North Berwick which was won by Gillian Stewart : " I had been listening to " The Mikado " before I set out and I was humming it in my head all the way round . |
| 5 | You do n't know how glad I was to see you in that little cottage talking to old Freitas . |
| 6 | I was holding it in such an awkward way that fingers eventually protested . |
| 7 | Poor love , ’ she smiled faintly , ‘ he was half asleep , and at first when he heard what I had to say he thought I was leaving him in the lurch after all . |
| 8 | I was reading it in the paper I thought oh I wonder if is . |
| 9 | Because I was writing it in R E |
| 10 | but do n't get me wrong after a while I just gave up and I was getting them in bouts and I was getting through the Bonjela and the |
| 11 | I was beating him in the storyline , but he was , in reality , desperate to win all the races . |
| 12 | I have to pay 80p for one piece of Vallis , Cabomba etc at any of the fish centres in this part of the world and £1.50 each if I was to buy them in the little pots . |
| 13 | I was to meet him in later years , but I am sure that the reaction in the chapel of all those within earshot , and particularly of the School Chaplain himself , exactly mirrored ‘ The Guardsman who dropped his rifle on parade ’ and the man who lit his cigar before the Royal toast together with his great friend who ordered a double Scotch in the grand pump-room at Bath . |
| 14 | I nearly forgot how old you are when I was putting you in the book . |
| 15 | I was carrying her in my arms out of hospital . |
| 16 | But when I said I was doing it in Scotland , people just shivered . |
| 17 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 18 | Particularly since you were wearing it in my honour . ’ |
| 19 | If you were to define it in your mind as — " bottom of wings on top of bar " — you would be more likely to recognise that the actual attitude was , or was not , accurate . |
| 20 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 21 | He probably just assumed that you were seeing me in connection with my work . ’ |
| 22 | You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout . |
| 23 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 24 | She had charm , a way of making you feel that you were joining her in some harmless conspiracy . |
| 25 | It is easy to have an opinion about a moral issue like capital punishment , but if you were to discuss it in an essay you would usually have to give your reasons . |
| 26 | that 's what I mean , as you were putting it in it , it shot out did n't it ? |
| 27 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 28 | Now she was accusing me in front of a stranger . |
| 29 | I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’ |
| 30 | Ari wondered whether she was betraying him in some way by leaving him alone with the dreaded sibling of Cabochon Crevecoeur . |