Example sentences of "i [was/were] [v-ing] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well they 've wanted a mid-field player and a good striker , now people well write letters to local press informing them of this , but they do n't seem to be prepared to do this , they , the managers want to do their own thing as far as I can see they think the people on the terraces do n't know anything , but Jim and I were saying last night they wanted a mid-field player for ages now all this season , a ball winner , they have n't had one since Willie used to play and |
| 2 | I was trying last year to try to see if I could get a erm an Indian , you know when we sort of do looking at Asia |
| 3 | I was playing last night Got ta learn this album I used to have ages and ages ago fucking . |
| 4 | Now , my theory that I was proposing last week about preferential parental investment in sexy sons or little boys who showed phallic behaviour , is a consequence of the Trivers Willard principle , because basically what it says is that little boys who advertised , as it were , in their childhood , evidence of their own adult reproductive success by precocious sexuality towards the women of the family and aggression towards the males , might be rewarded by preferential parental investment , a Trivers Willard effect in other words , and if , when they grew up , those oedipal sexy sons were in fact more reproductively successful , then the result would be a kind of self-perpetuating cycle of parental investment in oedipal sons who then grew up to be more reproductively successful than non-oedipal sons and , and so on . |
| 5 | I was wondering last night if it might be the hand of fate . |
| 6 | Well I think the the er other point I was making last week was that erm this whole are of learning theory is erm y'know a very traditional area . |
| 7 | ‘ He asked me what I was doing last night , and then one or two questions about mother . ’ |
| 8 | That 's what I was doing last night . |
| 9 | The stuff I was doing last night . |
| 10 | No , for that job I was doing last night . |