Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never did think they were primitive and they always told the truth ( except when they were teaching me the language ) and were a damn sight more trustworthy than some of the white men we had on the job . |
| 2 | Not one organisation wrote to the Home Secretary indicating they were supporting what the Government is now putting for the House . |
| 3 | I think the answer is that simply as it who were doing what the name would otherwise have done , erm for the reasons your Lordship has given and , and your Lordship has seen of course that the analysis of the relationship between the name and the agent , erm , certainly as far as Mr is concerned , indeed we said it certainly it follows from what , what article eighty five does , it does n't effect the extensible authority point but and the |
| 4 | He said that he wondered whether the government had lost control of the security forces or whether the security forces were doing what the government wanted . |
| 5 | The uniforms were giving her the once-over . |
| 6 | While Hyacinth awarded marks , others , just as predatory , were giving her the eye . |
| 7 | ‘ In Bishopsgate there was a man lying on the ground and other people were giving him the kiss of life . ’ |
| 8 | And wh what they did , they carried out this test and they er in American and they erm were giving him the pills . |
| 9 | I could not get over the fact that people were giving me the responsibility of telling them how to get me up , and that I could choose what time I went to bed ! |
| 10 | I do n't want you to give me your answers now , I am as it were giving you the opportunity now , over lunch , to consider this matter . |
| 11 | He said , ‘ Angie … ’ and she stood aside to let him in , lost for words , then followed him to the kitchen , as if he were showing her the way . |
| 12 | I think the doctors were telling her the truth . ’ |
| 13 | and she were telling me the guy that runs it wo n't let them talk to the customers , said that was pig ignorant surely |
| 14 | But Lothar then extracted a further concession , " since he would not have , he said , in the share [ of the regnum ] they were offering him the wherewithal to make good to his own supporters that which they had lost . |
| 15 | Lizzie had bought the kind of steak he liked and now he was cooking it the way he wanted . |
| 16 | I just wan na find out who was writing them the letters and then I can finish . |
| 17 | Hitler no longer seemed to be speaking to convince ; rather , he seemed to feel that he was expressing what the audience , by now transformed into a single mass , expected of him . |
| 18 | After my fourth or fifth lesson I was able to see that it was I who was causing myself the discomfort . |
| 19 | And again perhaps to follow up a previous question and the question is this , that in the first draft of the statement of faith which was presented two years ago , there was a very clear statement which said that Christ died for our sin in connection with the cross and I was wondering what the reasoning was which took away that very specific meaning of the death of the Christ into a much more general and ambiguous one in the statement before us today . |
| 20 | This paradox remained until early 1974 , when I was investigating what the behavior of matter in the vicinity of a black hole would be according to quantum mechanics . |
| 21 | He gave the Clerk of the Court his name and that of the person he was suing whom the clerk called the defendant . |
| 22 | ‘ Who was selling her the stuff , this same man ? ’ |
| 23 | She was tellin' me the ovver day she wants Fred ter try an' get that empty 'ouse next door ter make the place bigger . |
| 24 | ‘ They 're likely to charge him over the weekend , so Gerry was tipping me the wink there 's no story for us . |
| 25 | He was doing what the saint willed . ’ |
| 26 | Her defence , that in providing for the poor she was doing what the HUD was supposed to do , earned her the nickname " Robin HUD " . |
| 27 | Everyone was closing their the theatres , but the independents and smaller circuits closed proportionally more , thus shifting the proportion of the box office take in favour of the conglomerates which owned the larger and more salubrious houses . |
| 28 | Bobbie looked surprised , because just for a moment she thought Peter was giving her the engine . |
| 29 | And with that sarcastic tone she had always disliked he said he was giving her the answers : he ha.i acquired a duplicate set of keys to help in his research for Eliot . |
| 30 | Swinging himself into the saddle , Guy turned Chalon 's head towards Winchester and began to consider the various means whereby he could ensure that Isabel belonged to him while he was giving her the time she needed . |