Example sentences of "[det] and [pron] was [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean he was just saying this and he was coming out with , you know , stupid words and it was really funny in the lesson , it was brilliant . |
| 2 | I have spoken to Ian Wright extensively about this and he was saying that Hendrix was one of his three musical idols . |
| 3 | We talking about this and I was saying about coming from construction I says I 've says I 've to go up the cut like |
| 4 | ‘ I had one injury after another and it was doing my head in . |
| 5 | I smoked pot and a pipe of peace and things like that and everybody was tripping out and all the rest of it and that 's how initially I got into it . |
| 6 | Now a lot of people when that was first mentioned said ‘ I do n't need that , it 's all right you can look at them if you want to ’ , but afterwards , half-way through their course , they wanted to know that they were theirs and other people would n't see them and have this reassurance that if they wanted to watch it and then wipe it blank , or if they wanted to wipe it blank without ever having seen it themselves , they could do that and no-one was going to ask ‘ What 's going on ? ’ . |
| 7 | No the woman was n't in the shop you see and young girl another girl in there Julie and that and she was running on to Pam . |
| 8 | and it said about tin cans and aluminium and that and it was costing them less excuse me to use recycled you know er used aluminium |
| 9 | Anyway , , the old shed looks well there er , I du n no why I started to look out and the cat was on his back legs with his feet like that and he was looking up at me like that ! |
| 10 | Julie said he went up to bed and she she said he sat his , sat on the bed , went like that and he was snoring . |
| 11 | Well I 'm freer to do , I mean I , I got , I wanted to be free because I was getting tied up with that and I was getting tied up with persons , but not agreeing everything |
| 12 | The first time I ever got it I what do you want me to do and he said right run across there and I 'd run now punch it , and I 'd be punching the you 'd be jumping and turning round , I could n't get the right one , and finally punch it and the would be coming , said quick hit that and I was getting all sort of |
| 13 | But then I , eventually I tried the building trade again and I joined a firm called er forget , or something like that and I was working up in George Street in , in , in Edinburgh . |
| 14 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 15 | I had , of course , been told by my surgeon that everything he could see he had taken out , On the other hand , I had chosen to explore further on my own and I was learning that cancer has this nasty habit of playing possum . |
| 16 | Yes , she was on her own and she was talking |