Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [pron] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yeah so I was going what 's the perviest place ? |
| 2 | She wanted to tell him that she had n't meant a word she had said , but if she did he would think she was hoping he was the rich man she had talked about . |
| 3 | ‘ I was thinking what 's the point you lying in the sun if you swathe yourself up like a woman in purdah . |
| 4 | ‘ I was thinking she 's the sort who encourages crime . |
| 5 | As it was spinning which was the first textile process to be mechanised , it was women 's work which was the first to be taken away by machinery , threatened by the water frame in 1769 and by Hargreaves ' spinning jenny in 1770 , even before Crompton 's mule came into use in the 1780s . |
| 6 | If anything was missing it was the special 's responsibility to ask for it , and ask fast . |