Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] i the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought you were calling me the bearded wonder then . |
| 2 | And you were telling me the other clubs men men had |
| 3 | Yeah cos , my mates were telling me the other day what 's Gilly said ? |
| 4 | I mean technically we do have an entitlement to visits in that Janet was was reminding me the other day that that we said , when Deborah was here , that everybody was entitled to four visits a year . |
| 5 | Erm , I was erm , put on just for in ninety seventy three and your question that you 're asked was and from nineteen seventy three till three years ago erm I know took my causes , I trust , put my trust in the doctors and erm over all those years I did n't realize that it was actually the tablets that was causing me the mental illness . |
| 6 | She was berating me the whole time . |
| 7 | Jean was asking me the other day , and really , you 've told me next to nothing . |
| 8 | At 60,000 feet it was harder to tell which was giving me the better high : the puppy poo , the Beastie Boys album or the Cessna . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , that was because Lesley-Jane was giving me the wrong cues . |
| 10 | I know what profession she 's in , and no wonder that taxi driver was giving me the big smirk . |
| 11 | Now he s he thought he was giving me the same stuff , I did n't know what I was on , all I knew was I felt twice as bad . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll have your name , and I 'll see that lady who was telling me the other day that Brownie girls do n't raid orchards . ’ |
| 13 | Anyway , just after Christmas this guy says er I still want the hotel so Peter said well you better put something down , you ge , better get something so he he went and put fifty thousand as a deposit on it and then said his legal advisers would be in touch and they had a month went by and they never heard anything , so Peter rang up , he was telling me the other day , er , he rang up yeah , go , he does n't want it you know ? |
| 14 | She was telling me the other day . |
| 15 | Josh Cornock was telling me the big tides of the last few days have brought the elvers down . |
| 16 | The progress of this story was to show me the essential solitariness of other people , people whom I had not thought of as being solitary before . |