Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] was [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I was listening to one of the tapes last night . |
| 2 | Well I mean I was saying to this bloke well can you think of anywhere where we might be able to , oh no no no ca n't think of anywhere . |
| 3 | ‘ I imagine he was referring to the Independence Day celebrations , ’ her husband had told her as he 'd led the way into the apartment . |
| 4 | Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing . |
| 5 | Remember I was saying to you about the whole of the rag trade ? |
| 6 | I think they had to close this pub down you know I was listening to somebody talk about it cos there were drugs going on in it . |
| 7 | You see , you know I was talking to you earlier about , about punchlines basically , but I ca n't remember the words I was using for it , times like by the way , right right , or did you know or did I mention to you do you follow me , a lot of key lines that you can think on that you use |
| 8 | Lead words , if you want to sit down and , in , in general you see er , you want to just sit down and think about what you 're doing and what you 're not doing , you can sit down and exercise on these words , now I 'm not saying you 'd ever want to do that , right now if , now you know I was saying to you about comparative questions right |
| 9 | Well , in a way it was n't dangerous I 'd say , it was a very worked plan and it would have worked if the letter had got there , so I know it was going to work and I would not say it was dangerous . |
| 10 | er , so I 've a , is n't it , it 's a case of no news is possibly good news again , erm , I 'm trying to get in touch with the National Co-Organiser for Carl and John without er any success erm , I know he was going to the erm , the British Section just erm , he was gon na check on them and what actions were forthcoming but er , I have n't heard about that erm , I dare say there 's some on the way erm , the erm , the other few points were erm Jackie 's talk last month she mentioned that erm she was gon na give sort of the more forms sort of side presentation and stuff at their centre in North London , I 've got ta date for that now , it 's erm the eighteenth of March , which is a Wednesday so eh , I 'll certainly be going , if anybody else is interested that 's er , that 's the date er , it 's , it 's not entirely to do with but it , it has a link in , erm we were mentioning campaigns last month , I believe there 's a fourth coming one on , indigenous peoples , which , er , it 's , it 's all sort of triggered off by erm the er five hundredth anniversary of Columbus discovering the Americas erm , the erm cast and the whole of all the sort of the Region and Action networks and the Americas are , erm gon na have a big link in with that campaign so , erm , I , I 'd really like to see us sort of getting involved with that , yes , and , I mean , I 'll be involved to an extent anyway , cos some of the actions that I 'll getting will be sort of addressing the issue of indigenous people 's but erm , erm , they if , if nobody else is wiling to take it on , I 'll , I 'll , I 'd certainly be prepared to erm , sort of co-ordinate that campaign , erm , having said all that , erm I mentioned to a few people that erm , erm in the process of buying a house , so erm I could be moving in well hopefully as little as two months time so erm , I mean if er is as quite as it has been for the last few months , I probably wo n't have any problems , but erm , sod 's law it 's bound to pick up just as I 'm moving house |
| 11 | Anyway , so erm he said , but you know he was saying to them that er , it 's not just at the bottom end , he said , in our village in Wales we 've got the Sun have now positioned two reporters who have lived in the village the these the they sit in a car outside his house day and night |
| 12 | ‘ He stared straight in my eyes like he was listening to me … as if he was considering things . ’ |
| 13 | And although I believe he was referring to a certain kind of abstract thinking — the kind that reduced the English Hegelian tradition to a lyrical hymn to the Absolute , and of which his own thesis on Bradley of 1916 came very near to imitating ( which is why he declared , on its publication in 1963 , that he did not pretend to understand it ) , he possessed an outstanding capacity for reasoned argument . |
| 14 | The vibrant ‘ Zoo Station ’ kicked everything off and right from the word go it was going to be something special . |
| 15 | I mean he was talking to Norman over the fence the other day and it sounds like gunfire |
| 16 | He just says I mean he was saying to June |
| 17 | and er and erm and Joe was saying this to Shrimpy I think , or so I think she was saying to Shrimpy |
| 18 | Monte Carlo I think he was going to this time . |
| 19 | I think he was coming to the end of his management with Les Conn at the time . |
| 20 | Erm and it was only afterwards reflecting on it I think he was coming to me . |
| 21 | Now the point about this measure is how will the Secretary of State for home affairs , respond to this proposal because this is a re-run , this ten minute ruled bill , of the bill that I introduced last year under the private members bill procedure in which the er junior minister that is currently at the despatch box , said that he accepted the principals of seeking to achieve full registration but felt that the measure itself was premature , premature in that the Home Office were investigating er numbers and matters concerned with the electoral registration and electoral provision , arising from experience at the last general election but I think it was beginning to be accepted that the poll tax had had a serious impact upon the electoral register although there were many other er elements that provided great difficulty . |
| 22 | I think it was going to the extreme heat and damp down in , you know whether it was cold in . |
| 23 | We think it was going to be the seventh and the eighth and the ninth , and they 've told Newcastle City it 's the ninth , but she was meant to confirmed last Wednesday , and she 's still not . |
| 24 | As Mr Wolski ate his usual morning toast and marmalade he was listening to a spokesman from the RSPB saying , ‘ We think it possible that the eagle will try to find high ground . |
| 25 | ‘ I wish I was going to war . ’ |
| 26 | I wish I was going to work . |
| 27 | Wish I was going to my bed at eight o'clock . |