Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we shall see in Chapter 6 the closing decades of the century and the early years of the new century were more concerned with the ‘ collective ’ approach than the individual , and younger ministers were only mirroring this change . |
| 2 | In 1982 , 30% of jobless 16 and 17 year olds on supplementary benefit had family heads who were also receiving this benefit ( Roll , 1990 ) . |
| 3 | But that the the leader of the house effectively made a statement in Prime Minister 's questions on the same issue , misleading the house into believing that the government were actually applying this money to patient care rather than to meeting their own political incompetence . |
| 4 | They were definitely coming this way . |
| 5 | He was rather liking this bit of a jaunt , although he had not been very enthusiastic when Goibniu had ordered him to set out . |
| 6 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 7 | ‘ I was only thinking this morning in bed , that others never really knew what we shared . |
| 8 | Now , I was only thinking this morning when I was in your bathroom you 've got lots of bubble bath left over from Christmas . |
| 9 | I was already doing this job and so I went back because there they were going there there 's a solicitor going to earn me erm er somewhere in the region of a hundred and seventy pound commission . |
| 10 | Or , as one of my students once put it to me , ironically , when I was still preaching this gospel , ‘ I know , Sir , it was racism what dun n it . ’ |
| 11 | Wickedly sardonic , he was even taking this opportunity to reissue his orders , and Jenna looked like a trapped rabbit . |
| 12 | was evidently basing this comment on the terms of section 61(1) . |
| 13 | I was talking to someone who knows a Leeds solicitor who is involved with the club and he was allegedly letting this colleague in on some inside info . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was he who was truly destroying this place . |
| 15 | He was certainly performing this service in 1729 , towards the end of Campbell 's life , drawing out designs for works at Studley Royal , Yorkshire , and he appears to have done so previously . |