Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [pers pn] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hoped he was reminding her that she had his bucket on her back and he did n't want it covering with dents . |
| 2 | He was warning her that he was going to hunt her down … and then … and then … ? |
| 3 | It was true , she felt , for in the heat of the moment a voice was warning her that he was only moved by desire now because she had n't fallen at his feet when he had followed her to London . |
| 4 | I knew as I was doing it that I should n't be following them , through the snake-laced paths to the river in the moonlight , to the broken house with the pigeon tower : that shame would be the result — my shame , for I cared nothing what their feelings might be . |
| 5 | He was showing her that she was under his thumb . |
| 6 | She clung to him , terrified — furious because he was showing her that he was in total command of the situation . |
| 7 | Cos I was telling them that we were sick of seeing the rain and that . |
| 8 | But soon the colleges came to grips with Little Shop of Horrors as a topic for campus debate the world over , and they decided that Corman was telling them that he was not trying to hide the fact that it was a cheaply made film — this was the one he shot in two days — but he was n't trying to pass it off as serious movie-making either . |
| 9 | Now he was telling her that her mother had divorced her father because there was another man in her life . |
| 10 | The doctor was telling her that he was off to have a good time where Lydia lived , imagining that this would induce envy in her . |
| 11 | Cos I was telling her that you bought one she said oh why did n't you tell her , she could have had mine . |
| 12 | mm , who was telling me that somebody 's four year old son has got a video and television in his bedroom his own video |
| 13 | ‘ I spoke to her the other day at a charity meeting and she was telling me that her poor brother died recently . |
| 14 | But I assume he was telling me that they 'll ask for Harry Maxim and the Committee would rather he did n't go . ’ |
| 15 | He was telling me that they 'd died of the frost or something . |
| 16 | But he was telling me that there 's twenty one cars been stolen from the car park this year . |
| 17 | And that 's while he was telling me that he wanted his Harley Street centre to offer a rape examination suite . |
| 18 | Yeah , yeah , well he 's I interviewed him er last year and he was telling me that he remembers going up into the loft in 's erm , the whole of the station yard was full of cattle . |
| 19 | Nancy was telling me that he had loads of |
| 20 | But one old boy over in B Wing was telling me that it 's like a fucking maze down there . |
| 21 | She has n't had any more visions but she was telling me that she sometimes has dreams . |
| 22 | In effect , the New Right wisdom was telling us that we have had too much of a good thing . |
| 23 | He was telling us that we were all he had left , that he did love me . |
| 24 | And and lots of churches that he was telling us that he 'd been in contact with . |