Example sentences of "was [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was using it a week later when Nathan walked in through the kitchen door . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Lizzie had bought the kind of steak he liked and now he was cooking it the way he wanted . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 … . |
| 5 | Furthermore , he was keeping it a secret until the day he moved out . |
| 6 | I just wan na find out who was writing them the letters and then I can finish . |
| 7 | It even took us into Cambridge a few times , but that was pushing it a bit — and once or twice we really had to . |
| 8 | The second time was pushing it a bit . ’ |
| 9 | on the way back it was pushing it a bit . |
| 10 | That place was costing me a fortune . |
| 11 | This was costing him a small fortune . |
| 12 | The Oil War was costing us a billion dollars a day , and we already had more than four hundred and twenty-five thousand men in Saudi Arabia . |
| 13 | However one piece of equipment was causing him a problem — a ‘ survival bag ’ . |
| 14 | Hugh , who had worn the uniform of a verderer for less than a twelvemonth , was no use to them as a guide and as the day grew on it became evident that his arm was causing him a great deal of pain . |
| 15 | Sien was causing him a great deal of worry as the year wore on . |
| 16 | This time I left it up to my patient to decide which area of her life was causing her the most distress . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But what they did to me was give me a metronome and a theme which you play in quicker and quicker note values : triplets , eighths , sixteenths , and so on . |
| 19 | When Julie Mills moved into her new home she thought all she 'd need to do to the kitchen was give it a lick of paint . |
| 20 | Whether it was give it a better flavour or no , I do n't know but we never used the saltpetre . |
| 21 | ‘ Does remembering how awed I was give you a thrill ? |
| 22 | Just over five minutes later she had taken the tablet and Felipe was pouring her a cup of tea , and Maggie looked at him in amusement . |
| 23 | The doctor was paying her the ten shillings , she could afford to be friendly . |
| 24 | It was only a wolf-whistle — he was paying me a compliment . |
| 25 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 26 | So the retching was worrying me a bit . |
| 27 | Mat. , she had managed to give the impression authority was granting me a great favour . |
| 28 | ‘ Who was selling her the stuff , this same man ? ’ |
| 29 | But anyway I gave , it 's fifty P I gave the lass who was selling it a pound you see and she said here you are waiting to give me my change , I said no , no and she said and I said to her I said you know you need it more than I do and she she got tears in her eyes and I I thought I mean I I do n't know if I can articulate this properly . |
| 30 | There used to be a cafe , a cute ; the er you used to go in and have a cup of tea and that and yo , he started selling jam , pots of jam with they had him in court , it was er it had fell off a lorry and he was selling it a bit cheap and er he were telling us about it . |