Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all I could think of was the way that baby had felt in my arms , and inside I was hating God for doing this to me . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I was called Luce after my mother . ’ |
| 3 | Every time we kissed , you 'd know I was kissing Andrew in my heart . |
| 4 | I was meeting Jenny for lunch . |
| 5 | Darren started going to a special school , but in ‘ 84 my drinking did start getting out of hand and I was pushing Darren from pillar to post . |
| 6 | I began it upon leaving Tintern , after crossing the Wye , and concluded it just as I was entering Bristol in the evening , after a ramble of four or five days , with my sister . |
| 7 | He had already invited his new young friend to travel to Stowey a few weeks later , and when they parted after six miles , Hazlitt was possessed by a single thought : ‘ I was to visit Coleridge in the spring . ’ |
| 8 | And er one day I was bathing Judy in the hut and the bell went and I just had to wrap a towel round her , you know , and run down to the sandy wadders And things got so bad , we went back to Khartoum |
| 9 | I was conducting Elektra in Berlin — I think it was around the time of his 75th birthday — and at the end he came and said to me it was the best performance of the opera he had ever heard . |
| 10 | I was telling Vitalis about the problem when he volunteered to do the job himself . |
| 11 | I was telling Edward about the heron we saw . ’ |
| 12 | I was telling Sue about it , oh my God she said ! |
| 13 | Erm I went , I was telling David about this in the car , I went down to Nottingham to and recorded , I 've got an hour of recording from erm an organisation meeting |
| 14 | Lewis certainly is not short of confidence and after the fight he said : ‘ I know Razor was feeling those right hands I was hitting Dixon with . ’ |
| 15 | I was idling Armstrong outside the National Westminster tower , you know — the building which King Kong would have climbed if he 'd been British , when the cops pulled me in . |
| 16 | ‘ I was driving Kelly to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London , ’ Sandra says , ‘ and out of the blue she said to me : ‘ Mum , what happens when you die ? |
| 17 | Although I was doing Shakespeare for A-level I had never seen any of his plays performed on stage . |
| 18 | I was visiting Cobham with a friend and after a look around we called into the Ship public house for refreshment . |
| 19 | Zeinab announced that she was taking Owen to the theatre . |
| 20 | Celie finally stood up to Albert after Shug told him that she was taking Celie with her to Memphis . |
| 21 | His mother clung to him and wanted to tell him all about her mother 's death as well as telling him how happy she was to welcome Helen into the family . |
| 22 | She was meeting Terry at Holborn , and prayed her brothers would not see him there . |
| 23 | I glanced at Lily , but now , back in role , she was watching Conchis with a politely interested expression on her face . |
| 24 | Anne knew she was treating Nina like a four-year-old , but could see no other way to cope with her . |
| 25 | One moment she was directing Maria in the making of knead cakes , the next she was taken with a sensation of wishing to bear down , no pains preceding it , and had a struggle to get herself to bed and to have Ferdinando and the midwife sent for . |
| 26 | If she had , she would have been sure to say so when she was blaming Joseph for the murder . |
| 27 | Rachael , she 's coming home Well she was she was discharged Friday from hospital . |
| 28 | But they were very kind and they gave me a part in this play , it was called Tilly of Bloomsbury . |
| 29 | And you know , for you and I , so often , imagine , think back to the time when you did not know Jesus Christ how easy it was to blame God for this and for that , if there 's a God of love in heaven why does n't he do something about it ? |
| 30 | But Guido was there all right ; he must have come back without Ronni knowing , and he was facing Silvia in the enormous hallway , a fulminating tower of bristling black anger . |