Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [that] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , Peter 's getting close to retirement , and he was hinting that he 'd like to sell out . |
| 2 | A , actually John was suggesting that we might talk nicely to John 's dad about the money they 've got invested in the sale of their pro , their ground . |
| 3 | Celia Hooper-seated opposite him in just such a chair and situation , so that they resembled two bookends without intervening books — was suggesting that she should draw up a basic plan for the annual deanery party , which happened at Loxford Rectory after Easter , a get-together for all the priests of the deanery , eight of them , and their wives . |
| 4 | So maybe it was fitting that it should begin here , at Nanking , where DeVore had first slipped the net . |
| 5 | Besides , it was fitting that he should serve a people who were so obviously more admirable as human beings than himself . |
| 6 | Thereafter only Ward on the final afternoon played with any real confidence and it was fitting that he should score the only century of the tour just before the end of the match . |
| 7 | He had found an ancient leather wine-pouch and was boasting that he could drain it dry . |
| 8 | She was deciding that she would go herself and have a secret talk with Matilda 's mother and father as soon as possible . |
| 9 | She was risking that he might come in ; and she had the disconnected breathless out-of-control feeling that was fatal with Jasper . |
| 10 | personally an and from er and the rest and he , he 's gone to this area and he 's looked and he , he 's seen and he may have interpreted this , or wanted to interpret it so that when his report went back that the , he was saying that we must get a move on to the people in the Party saying that we need to get involved now , we need to be in all these areas , we need to be helping things develop and , and being a part at the front . |
| 11 | ‘ I was saying that it must have seemed a terrible invasion of your privacy to find a pair of binoculars locked on your deck earlier . ’ |
| 12 | Was it , were you there when erm , Steve was saying that he would leave behind with me a recorder 's programme . |
| 13 | It was upsetting that he should have arrived on her very first real day back . |
| 14 | Now he was insisting that she should give him the dress she was wearing to pay off the debt . |
| 15 | In a way it was flattering that they should take his word . |
| 16 | Now , watching her , I thought that Fatima might , at this girl 's behest , change her life , her ways , and I wondered what she would do if she was hearing that she would find no husband , have no children , lose her life to Leviathan . |
| 17 | And she was hoping that they would have sent her for an interview down there . |
| 18 | Boy was like that , he was hoping that somebody would take him to the place where everybody else was . |
| 19 | I mean , we have a special relationship , and I was hoping that he would have talked with you about that . |
| 20 | " I was hoping that you might come . " |
| 21 | Hello Ian , oh I was hoping that you 'd come and see us . |
| 22 | He said the first thing that came into his mind that would eradicate any suspicion she was harbouring that he might soften towards her . |
| 23 | With all her heart she was fearing that she might regret this decision . |