Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were saying about the phone , you were , you were thinking about doing whatever |
| 2 | ‘ I think she was frightened to ask how long you were staying in case you left , ’ said Lord Grubb , with a lunge of shrewdness . |
| 3 | Her arm was like this only ever such a little hand and if you , she used to go and it just sort of reached your earhole when she was walking past you and if you were talking in class she 'd go . |
| 4 | ‘ What I still do n't know is what you were doing on board my boat . ’ |
| 5 | When we were flying over Holland I did steel myself to look out and I remember seeing where miles of land had been submerged under sea water to keep the Germans out , and houses , trees and roads were still under water . |
| 6 | Lastly , I would simply say that for weeks before the war was over , General whom I would like to call your attention to , was an Operations Officer and during the night when we were laying on missions we 'd say to each other , when this thing 's over we 're gon na get stinking drunk . |
| 7 | He was certainly enjoying life more than ever before , and when Eva finally announced that we were moving to London he admitted that it was the right thing to do . |
| 8 | And then I was dozing a bit and while we were watching like Arachnophobia we were we were still in bed but about four hours sleep just about . |
| 9 | If we were starting from scratch what would we do differently ? |
| 10 | ‘ Come on , it 's high time we were heading for home ourselves . |
| 11 | If they were living in England they could probably cope a lot better . |
| 12 | There was at least something to be said , after all , for a poor-relief system which was adaptable to suit personal need as it arose ; for all the parsimony of parish overseers , careful guardians of the ratepayers ' monies as they were , they were dealing with paupers whom they knew as people . |
| 13 | They were hoping against hope we 'd attack them . ’ |
| 14 | Since they were working with coordinators whose jobs were — at LEA insistence — properly specified , their anomalous position in the school could be severely aggravated by PNP . |
| 15 | And the , the , the laugh I had was er , the last time they were advertising for spoolers they , you had to have I think it was O levels or something , |
| 16 | And oh they were talking about Rod they was they were saying that , you know , about Rod getting married |
| 17 | The week before they were going to Dublin he went with the two girls and Rose to Boles in the town . |
| 18 | Many of the victims were in poor health and , in some cases , had been incarcerated by the police on the assumption that they were drunk when in fact they were suffering from diseases which were life-threatening when treatment was withheld . |
| 19 | From the start the new feature film had been saddled with outside obligations ; it had to preach or at least uplift , or if it were borrowing from literature it had to satisfy so many knowledgeable readers . |
| 20 | Now if the minister is right and a partner in the firm or indeed an assistant in the firm a acting as a tax advisor or financial planner , might come across something er tha that er if er he were acting as auditor he would be bound to report . |