Example sentences of "was [verb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
| 3 | This time I left it up to my patient to decide which area of her life was causing her the most distress . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The doctor was paying her the ten shillings , she could afford to be friendly . |
| 6 | Thank you very much indeed for the smelly duck — or should I say scented , it is such a nice smell ! — and for the pretty scarf which , you may be surprised to hear , Mark admired when I was wearing it the other day though he had n't realized it was new and from you ! |
| 7 | I was teaching them the fine art of drinking Tequila Slammers , one of the fastest ways of getting spifflicated known to man . |
| 8 | She was berating me the whole time . |
| 9 | I was doing it the other day yes . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , she was doing it the first time I laid eyes on her ! ’ |
| 11 | Jean was asking me the other day , and really , you 've told me next to nothing . |
| 12 | And from what she could see of him , which was not much , he was giving her the coldest of stares . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , that was because Lesley-Jane was giving me the wrong cues . |
| 15 | I know what profession she 's in , and no wonder that taxi driver was giving me the big smirk . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | On that morning I was giving them the latest news of Nigel . |
| 18 | He was all the more determined to appear in control because his father-in-law was giving him the half-amused , half-pitying look , which Hugh interpreted as ‘ I know you 're sorry you 've got to put up with me . |
| 19 | So , Himmler was giving him the same powers as he had given Max Radl for Operation Eagle . |
| 20 | By the middle of February , when the Shah had been in Morocco more than a month , it had become common gossip in the diplomatic corps that Hassan was giving him the cold shoulder . |
| 21 | Erm I 'm , I admit er that that was one I just bolted simply because I was taking it the wrong way round , I thought we had identified what was the priority , life insurance , P H I and pensions and was summarizing it whereas I should 've realized we 're doing that page towards the priority |
| 22 | You had to go to such trouble to persuade the subject to accept the poison and when ( or rather , in his case if ) you managed it , your very intimacy made it all too clear to everyone that you were the one who was slipping them the doctored crumble , the dodgy spaghetti bolognese or the potato salad unusually rich in mineral salts . |
| 23 | Lee had risen and moved to where he sat at the table and was showing him the completed unicorn 's head . |
| 24 | Peter was showing him the large white sheet that was fixed to the fence . |
| 25 | Pat was showing him The True Path in stylish fashion . |
| 26 | ‘ Something was bothering you the first time we met , and you kept quiet about that , too . |
| 27 | She knew he was leaving her the next day , perhaps for ever . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | She was telling me the other day . |