Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [v-ing] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were gon na report it today then I got talking with gaffer I were sorting this job out |
| 2 | I were telling you about Irene , I were filling this thing in and I put right , sixty four I were gon na put sixty four , that were it . |
| 3 | I had a phone call , and you know that place I were going this afternoon ? |
| 4 | But we know this is marble chippings you know you were getting this carbon dioxide off . |
| 5 | I believe you were taking this Paul . |
| 6 | If someone said , Okay nitric acid and calcium hydroxide. as long as you were using this chart to work out which are single negative and double negative , what 's going to happen to that one ? |
| 7 | All the while you were building this future I knew there 'd come a morning like this , when I 'd smile sadly as I left you , when I 'd give a last half wave at the corner , when I 'd set my face to the reality of the serious work ahead . |
| 8 | You were taping this thing in that advert . |
| 9 | I mean you came out with a wonderful statement when you were advertising this programme . |
| 10 | There is no need to invent imaginary names : in fact , if you were doing this report as an assignment , you could put your tutor 's name opposite the ‘ To ’ . |
| 11 | I said I can imagine if you were doing this project yeah , like they 'd like get this tape yeah of you and Honey having |
| 12 | You were saying this morning on the end of the news you were talking about the four man |
| 13 | ‘ The 5% increase in house prices which we were expecting this year would have solved most of our problems , including the brunt of the arrears and repossessions , ’ it says . |
| 14 | Whereas mental handicap had revolutionized fairly quickly , for Friern and Claybury we were breaking this ground before the consensus had been reached . |
| 15 | ‘ We were sending this chap about his business , ’ explained Ebenezer . |
| 16 | The final bit of luck we had on this job was while we were refinishing this table . |
| 17 | till we got to near the den and do that and we spent er a year and a half there and all the time we were watching this house being built , because I was working at the Corporation and the number of people of the Corporation from the tea boy cadet down came up to see this , this and that , was nobody 's business , mm , without , we enjoyed it , it was quite funny really it is |
| 18 | ‘ We were playing this gig in a notorious venue called the Village Green , and they had a blues band supporting us — real grunge , a great-sounding blues band . |
| 19 | But as it turned out , we were playing this club in Sydney 's red light district and he was in the audience ! |
| 20 | For example , when we were recording this album at Eel Pie Studios , Pete Townshend 's amp was sitting in a corner , so of course I had to try it ! |
| 21 | So we were doing this music which was away from the pop stuff that was around . |
| 22 | When they were looking at Woolf , erm wh the other group 's a bit further on with Wolves than than you are but we were doing this morning about how Lily has difficulty painting her picture and erm Virginia Woolf says in her diary , I assure you all my novels are first rate before they were written . |
| 23 | We were filming this video in Soho , and all these prostitutes were going ‘ Stay in Hackney , girls ! |
| 24 | Well , while we were having this conversation , there was a lady in the office who used to work for Fred Astaire and when I left she rang him up . |
| 25 | It 's , it 's funny because we , we were having this conversation before we came in were n't we ? |
| 26 | he supposedly , he , two short planks does not describe this boy , even Miss hates him that was it , she , we were having this discussion right in education , she goes , are you cynical about education Terry , he goes , no , he goes , oh she goes why ? |
| 27 | and when we were having this argument on Wednesday he said I said we what what was your reason then for not paying me for that when I was genuinely sick and he said er oh he said because I gave you such a good bonus last week , I said what was that then , he said erm twenty five pounds , I said no you did n't ! |
| 28 | We were following this path and heard people fighting under this tree . ’ |
| 29 | Yeah so anyway and I said that 's not very nice so we were talking this morning about her and I had to tell Ann did n't I that she drove to work three days on a trot in her bleeding lights two . |
| 30 | The memory caused another burst of general laughter ; then Percy , addressing himself to Peggy , explained , ‘ We were giving this concert in this old people 's home . |