Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was pretending to be another man , but losing my own heart . |
| 2 | And my excessively tidy and authoritarian behaviour shows that I was striving to be the person the school wanted me to be . |
| 3 | ‘ I was hoping to be allowed to land it , ’ said the Thing . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't mind confessing I was hoping to be her farm manager , ’ said Gabriel in his honest way . |
| 5 | ‘ I was hoping to be able to use my office , ’ Miles said slowly . |
| 6 | As I was saying to you the other day , laddie , because I was aiming to be a fighting man I would n't get married . |
| 7 | Somewhere I had read that a gentleman is one who never causes pain ; perhaps I was trying to be a gentleman . |
| 8 | Dad was still convinced I was trying to be something — a lawyer , I 'd told him recently , because even he knew that that doctor stuff was a wind-up . |
| 9 | ‘ I was trying to be polite . |
| 10 | I was trying to be cool , but the statues were not funny to me . |
| 11 | Erm so on that one that 's , that 's you did n't use any slang , the belief in the way you asked I think that came out , I was trying to be a prospective client rather than be the trainer cos I could see that Mike was uncomfortable and I was trying to , well okay , how , how would I well I think yeah there was a belief that you had there , I think he was er reasonably attentive , Mike , to your response ? |
| 12 | I put it on the arm on the chair , I was trying to be clever and I sat down and it had like material there and I caught the material and I just sort , all fell down here , it 's a lovely smell . |
| 13 | ‘ You are not of that opinion ? ’ enquired Lili , her head tilted in a way that I was beginning to be familiar with . |
| 14 | I was beginning to be afraid … ’ |
| 15 | I was expecting to be smelled and heard , but not seen . |
| 16 | Well I was expecting to be when I got there . |
| 17 | When I told her this afternoon that I was gon na be away till maybe tomorrow morning I do n't know what I expected . |
| 18 | I was taken into the , my wife died in January of nineteen eighty nine , I was taken into the local psychiatric hospital at in the December of nineteen eighty nine and I was told I was gon na be given an experimental drug , I was told nothing about it or any anything to do with any of the side effects , I I was in th I was on Prozac for about four days , I suffered horrendous side effects , shaking and one thing and another . |
| 19 | I was gon na be nice to you today and all . |
| 20 | So tha , I was gon na be catching a were n't I ? |
| 21 | Oh I did n't think I was gon na be that long . |
| 22 | I was gon na be happy to move the recommendation sir and anyone who 's aware of the traffic problem in London Road Brandon will , will support that and also sir the figures that in the questionnaire that was sent out support route A , emphatically because you 'll notice that double the people er double the number who returned the questionnaire supported route A as opposed to any of the other alternatives , so , so I think the , the recommendation that we were to accept this morning 's various adequately worded and , and accepted . |
| 23 | Er , er yeah , but always there and Matthew know , Matthew knew I was gon na be there . |
| 24 | One day , as I was waiting to be admitted to the prison , I heard quite a young man talking to the guard in broken but familiar Italian : it sounded like Triestino . |
| 25 | It was just that I was longing to be your hostess . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I was wondering when I was going to be let free to do the work of the Lord . ’ |
| 27 | This meant that there was now effectively a time limit on how long I was going to be able to stay in my broom cupboard . |
| 28 | Unless I went back to Harwich , I was going to be flat broke in a couple of days and just at that moment the last thing I wanted to do was to go back to Harwich . |
| 29 | I was trying to make out what sort of creature I was going to be living with ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I knew I was going to be tough to beat this week . |