Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] i the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never did think they were primitive and they always told the truth ( except when they were teaching me the language ) and were a damn sight more trustworthy than some of the white men we had on the job . |
| 2 | I thought you were calling me the bearded wonder then . |
| 3 | I could not get over the fact that people were giving me the responsibility of telling them how to get me up , and that I could choose what time I went to bed ! |
| 4 | And you were telling me the other clubs men men had |
| 5 | and she were telling me the guy that runs it wo n't let them talk to the customers , said that was pig ignorant surely |
| 6 | Yeah cos , my mates were telling me the other day what 's Gilly said ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She was tellin' me the ovver day she wants Fred ter try an' get that empty 'ouse next door ter make the place bigger . |
| 10 | ‘ They 're likely to charge him over the weekend , so Gerry was tipping me the wink there 's no story for us . |
| 11 | She was berating me the whole time . |
| 12 | Jean was asking me the other day , and really , you 've told me next to nothing . |
| 13 | At 60,000 feet it was harder to tell which was giving me the better high : the puppy poo , the Beastie Boys album or the Cessna . |
| 14 | I know what profession she 's in , and no wonder that taxi driver was giving me the big smirk . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , that was because Lesley-Jane was giving me the wrong cues . |
| 16 | Now he s he thought he was giving me the same stuff , I did n't know what I was on , all I knew was I felt twice as bad . |
| 17 | The navigator was giving me the countdown ; as soon as the needles on the oil-temperature gauge started moving I would be off , making sure I took-off on time as this would be vital for the rest of the squadron . |
| 18 | Perhaps the most useful thing she did was to teach me the language , so that in a few days I could speak it quite well . |
| 19 | He was showing me the ships that were lost in the battle . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll have your name , and I 'll see that lady who was telling me the other day that Brownie girls do n't raid orchards . ’ |
| 21 | Josh Cornock was telling me the big tides of the last few days have brought the elvers down . |
| 22 | When she said , I do n't know , I think she was telling me the truth , she did n't know . |
| 23 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 24 | Anyway , just after Christmas this guy says er I still want the hotel so Peter said well you better put something down , you ge , better get something so he he went and put fifty thousand as a deposit on it and then said his legal advisers would be in touch and they had a month went by and they never heard anything , so Peter rang up , he was telling me the other day , er , he rang up yeah , go , he does n't want it you know ? |
| 25 | She was telling me the other day . |
| 26 | The progress of this story was to show me the essential solitariness of other people , people whom I had not thought of as being solitary before . |
| 27 | He was offering me the trip of a lifetime , and all I had to do was take care of the meals . |
| 28 | Chance , fate or whatever you want to call it was offering me the opportunity to finally get you out of my system . |
| 29 | Joe Meek 's last big hit was Have I the Right by the Honeycombs . |