Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [that] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er but I say it , I was just using that as an example of how it brought it home to me how easy it is to get in . |
| 2 | I was just saying that during the course of today I hope you 'll complete a questionnaire . |
| 3 | I was just saying that to Dad here this morning . ’ |
| 4 | I was just saying that in that respect there 's not really much between John Major and Margaret Thatcher |
| 5 | hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ? |
| 6 | For in accepting that age and , more importantly , insanity could influence the degree of individuals ' responsibility for their actions it was also accepting that in some cases , and to some extent at least , human actions could be seen as determined . |
| 7 | So that when the British Medical Association decided in the late 1950s to inaugurate a programme of discussions among its membership on an appointed ‘ Subject of the Year ’ , it was entirely fitting that for its first discussion-point it should home in on The Adolescent : |
| 8 | He was probably thinking that in these times it was not worth taking the risk of offending anyone , just in case they were agents of Horemheb and you ended up in an emerald mine on the Eastern Coast . |
| 9 | because because that is how I felt when he was actually saying that to me |