Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I was accompanying him in the show anyway and I think we just had the nerve . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You do n't know how glad I was to see you in that little cottage talking to old Freitas . |
| 5 | I was holding it in such an awkward way that fingers eventually protested . |
| 6 | I was here in the city all the time ; watching its every move while it — and you — thought I was disporting myself in sunnier climes . ’ |
| 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 | He had no idea that I was prostituting myself in the cause of Jean-Claude 's success . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | I was beating him in the storyline , but he was , in reality , desperate to win all the races . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I thought I was talking somebody in |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I was putting something in … something alive ! |
| 17 | I nearly forgot how old you are when I was putting you in the book . |
| 18 | I was carrying her in my arms out of hospital . |
| 19 | So in some way I must have passed on my fear to my children , even though I thought I was doing everything in my power to avoid doing so . |
| 20 | However , one afternoon perhaps two weeks after our conversation in my pantry , I was doing something in the library when Miss Kenton came in and said : |
| 21 | But when I said I was doing it in Scotland , people just shivered . |
| 22 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 23 | Now she was accusing me in front of a stranger . |
| 24 | She was clutching something in her right hand , something covered in white powder , as she weaved towards us and sat down heavily and out of breath . |
| 25 | She was clutching one in her hand ; its edge dug into her palm . |
| 26 | 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 ! ’ |
| 27 | Ari wondered whether she was betraying him in some way by leaving him alone with the dreaded sibling of Cabochon Crevecoeur . |
| 28 | Defries realized that she was holding something in her right hand . |
| 29 | She was showering him in pleasure , did he understand ? |
| 30 | IT would have to be demonstrated , for example , that she was placing them in moral or physical danger with her lifestyle . ’ |