Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if she were giving me some hyacinth bulbs and saying December was a bit late to plant them . |
| 2 | ‘ No wonder they were giving me funny looks ! ’ |
| 3 | One day , she came out to the perimeter fence ; another , she came into the kitchen when they were making me some food . |
| 4 | Then a Rate 1 back onto 210 and descend towards the pilot ; the sun was low and that was causing me some problems ; seventy knots , no flaps in case I had to move fast , 100 feet — hold it . |
| 5 | Sadie was tellin' me that bloke they ‘ ung last year fer killin' that shopkeeper over in Stepney used ter be one o' the crowd 'er Billy 's gettin' wiv . ’ |
| 6 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 7 | I was rather surprised that he was asking me these questions . |
| 8 | When I finally arrived back at the Bible Room , headvoice was giving me unmerciful stick : |
| 9 | He was giving me 40 minutes on all matters transport and 10 had just been forfeited to the interests of the constituents of Derbyshire . |
| 10 | I skate down the road a bit before I shout at cops — or anyone that was giving me some shit . |
| 11 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 12 | She 's got no children , she was telling me last night in bed , there 's none on the way either . |
| 13 | Yes Julie was telling me last night . |
| 14 | Dorothy was telling me this morning you know when we were at erm nursery ? |
| 15 | You know what the girl was telling me this morning ? |
| 16 | Well , gravity was stretching me one way-in the direction pointing to the centre of the hole — and crushing me in the sideways direction , right ? |
| 17 | I got erm , Hand That Rocks The Cradle , Universal Soldiers and and he was offering me all Jean Claude Van Damm ones |