Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] were [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who was the lady you were talking to who you knew ? |
| 2 | ‘ He said he knew the part of Tuscany we were going to extremely well and all the priests were Communists . |
| 3 | By July they were objecting to overseas service at all . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought you might be a poacher rather than the gamekeeper you were pretending to be . |
| 5 | ‘ Did you tell Connie you were going to be a kennel-maid ? ’ she asked . |
| 6 | Th the decision you were putting to us though Trevor , was whether we put somebody on extra duty payment ? |
| 7 | That 's during the war yes and er , of course this is the first world war I were referring to and erm , the people appreciated this and we used to give it to them like you know . |
| 8 | ‘ At my former company [ French Gold Abbott ] we were inexperienced and no one viewed FGA as the last place they were going to work . |
| 9 | He saw them off on honeymoon and did n't know what to do with the weeks they were going to be away , until he thought of taking a total-immersion course in Italian . |
| 10 | But that if they did not make progress we were going to be in a really difficult situation which might have military overtones as well . |
| 11 | Well we , at the erm school play we were talking to , who did you say , Mr ? |
| 12 | But while we were there they had several meetings because of course we were going to be demobbed anyway , and the Colonel er of the regiment he had us together and so did the officers , and warned us that when we got back to civilian life we must er beware of these agitators who tried to er create suspicion amongst the troops who were coming back , and telling them that they ought to join er these revolutionary parties . |
| 13 | Well if I know who they are and I do n't know where they come from I 'll just put who they are day I were talking to them and dash it . |
| 14 | By that time the person you were speaking to may have left ! |
| 15 | yeah , erm yeah it was different erm with it only being role play it was a bit erm difficult to keep up with it sometimes and actually keep it going like , erm if it was the real life situation outside right you 'd know that the person you were talking to had more had been through that situation before |
| 16 | ‘ I wish to God you were coming to college , too , ’ Benny said suddenly . |
| 17 | I do n't know what he thought about , but what I thought about was how in God 's name we were going to be able to face each other in the morning . |
| 18 | By Kinbrace the guard had given up advising what station we were coming to . |
| 19 | Every now and again people would step neatly aside while the person they were talking to was sick on the floor . |
| 20 | Any systematic variation must have been the result of the reaction of passers-by to the apparent social class of the person they were talking to , since all other variables were held constant . |
| 21 | Cos someone said last night they were going to Tramps but whether that was just like , they might be going to Tramps or what . |
| 22 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 23 | Do you think the blow such as it was in s s selling something , was it would it have been softened because you s there was a you knew the people you were selling to . |
| 24 | On another occasion , a woman cousin met me there and we stood talking , ‘ Who was that woman you were talking to ? ’ |
| 25 | Their general demeanour was like that of elderly clubmen determined that it should be clearly understood that they were men of the world , fully alive to all the tricks of your Tom , Dick and Harry ; yet their actual questions and comments revealed that they had not the remotest notion what sort of a world it was that these East End people they were listening to actually lived in , or how to evaluate their characters and the plausibility of what they said . |
| 26 | Little thought had been given to the question of what sort of institutions they were going to be : |
| 27 | Erm but Edingley did ask for our support they were writing to and they were supposed to send the top copy of the letter to our clerk . |
| 28 | Every flipping two minutes they were coming to the toilet . |
| 29 | ‘ Who was that man you were talking to ? ’ |
| 30 | Whatever local radio you were listening to during the 3rd week of June , it is likely that you would have heard Delahunty 's editorial director , Paul Mace , on the hour , every hour , bringing you those live reports from the Pilkington Glass Ladies ' Championships at Eastbourne . |