Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was hoping that my indecision might somehow communicate itself to The Fat Controller . |
| 32 | I was hoping that Jane would type my application , but when she came to visit me in Cambridge , she had her arm in plaster , having broken it . |
| 33 | I knew it was wrong but as time went on I found that despite myself I was hoping that Iraq would win . |
| 34 | " I was hoping that you might come . " |
| 35 | I mean , we have a special relationship , and I was hoping that he would have talked with you about that . |
| 36 | I was hoping that our humble efforts would help bring S.B. back . |
| 37 | I was hoping that we could actually tease out as part of the discussion , whether there is erm a positive way forward if if we if you are minded if we are minded to recommend the new settlement , then I would hope we would tease out during the course of this discussion erm the preferred or a preferred host authority for this new settlement . |
| 38 | So I was hoping that there 'd be a record showing one way or the other but if |
| 39 | really , you see I was hoping that I was going anyway |
| 40 | Hello Ian , oh I was hoping that you 'd come and see us . |
| 41 | So er to get to your question erm I 've sort of not been doing anything erm I was hoping that I would be sort of fully fit round about now and then if I saw something on teletext er that was good I 'd just buzz off for a week or so . |
| 42 | I mean , you obviously know what I want here , but I mean I was hoping that Yvonne would come across and work maybe two stroke three days a week for me even when |
| 43 | Nearly ten years ago , in CD 's infancy , I was writing that most CD players sound like poor quality amplifiers , not least because they contain poor quality amplifier circuits , and little seems to have changed in the interim . |
| 44 | Nobody knows I was buying that place except the owner ! ’ |
| 45 | I was so sure I was drowning that I forgot about the race and screamed out , " Father ! |
| 46 | ' I was objecting that , whatever you thought of Reagan , the United States was the archetypal democracy ; Mr Healey was remarking how very few people bothered to vote there at all , only one in five of the eligible voters having been enough to elect Bush ; and then we arrived obliquely at the part played in politics by exhaustion . |
| 47 | This time last year , I was reporting that the gap between the two sectors of higher education was widening . |
| 48 | Perhaps my slightly jaundiced view stems from the fact that I was expecting that a book based on a workshop on the physical and neuropsychological basis of music would contain some physics , or at the very least some reasonably quantitative science rather than somewhat vague speculations . |
| 49 | I was expecting that at any minute Mum would shout down to find out what was going on but she must have been preoccupied , trying on her new frock . |
| 50 | I was expecting that Mrs was going to tell us about it . |
| 51 | I do n't think I was playing that badly , but I was n't able to kick it up another gear ’ |
| 52 | I wrote as much in a letter to my bishop in Scotland in 1974 or 1975 , at which time I was asking that he ordain me . |
| 53 | I was explaining that we had fallen in need of a housekeeper and an under-butler at one and the same time and Miss Kenton had arrived — with unusually good references , I recall — to take up the former post . |
| 54 | Ah , well I was explaining that to er the woman that cleans , you know that she told us we can wash ourself , you know . |
| 55 | R.B. Yes , another teacher mentioned this when I talked to her and I was saying that it seemed to me that it was a blind spot . |
| 56 | Jackson was so interested in what I was saying that he forgot to deny he knew what I was talking about . |
| 57 | I was saying that if there was a last Western , this would be an interesting story to make because of the nature of the subject matter . |
| 58 | I was saying that the second major point of contention has to do with public consultation on the results of the Hydrotechnica report . |
| 59 | I was saying that the proportion of advertising expenditure given was for that in the two lowest tar groups , which was rather less than the proportion of total sales . |
| 60 | No no no I was saying that there was but that had been put in quite recently . |