Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was simply saying that I 'm not a total stranger to your country . ’ |
| 2 | When I think that up until last night I was even hoping that I might look at you and wonder what it had all been about — that I 'd feel nothing ! |
| 3 | ' I was ah — I was just thinking that we really must — must get Willy to give us another shot of his old car ; you know , the Mini he bombs up and down the sands on sometimes ? |
| 4 | I was just thinking that we might leave hypothesis aside . |
| 5 | I was just thinking that we 're doing rather well with one or two steady accounts . ’ |
| 6 | I know but I , I was just saying that she |
| 7 | ‘ I was just saying that it 's easier for me than it would be for your average Englishman . |
| 8 | ‘ I was also thinking that I was not feeling very well , I 'm tired , I do n't want to be here . |
| 9 | For all that he could be expected to stay in the Lorrimores , car for at least fifteen more minutes I felt decidedly jittery , and I left the door open so that if he did come back unexpectedly I could say I was merely checking that everything was in order . |
| 10 | But I was certainly hoping that they [ the widows ] might get a better response . |
| 11 | ‘ I was happily thinking that you were out with Alain and quite safe . |
| 12 | Well I was only thinking that there 's not much on the television so |
| 13 | I got involved in that so that by mid-1977 I was performing in a play which was actually saying that I was gay . |
| 14 | Erm that 's another thing that would may have persuaded me not to talk you into er self employed except you were already experiencing that I guess were you in timeshare ? |
| 15 | She was also discovering that there was more to Sean O'Farrell than the frivolous charm which he presented to the world . |
| 16 | She was fervently wishing that he would go away , and yet part of her wanted him to stay . |
| 17 | Her instinct , almost irresistible , was to throw it at him , but she was fast learning that there were impulses which a person in her position could not afford to follow . |
| 18 | For the next moment he was kissing her and she was instantly realising that nothing quite so exciting had ever happened to her before . |
| 19 | They were both selfish individuals and she was now thinking that they deserved each other . |
| 20 | She was awfully fond of her husband , of course , but there was no denying that their own lovemaking had become just a little predictable . |
| 21 | There was no denying that she 'd caught his interest . |
| 22 | He came to spend the night , by agreement , twice a week and she saw him every day but there was no denying that he seemed a visitor and never a member of her household . |
| 23 | Paul wanted to retch , and at the same time felt his member thrusting against his clothes ; there was no denying that he had wanted this , when all was said , for a long time . |
| 24 | There was no denying that his penetration of my mind , using my eidetic memory to distort the relation between representation and that which was represented , was strident , aggressive even . |
| 25 | There was no mistaking that I was a very sick man . ’ |
| 26 | They were also hinting that there 's more moves to follow . |
| 27 | It was as if he were truculently stating that he had gone as far towards her as he was prepared to go . |
| 28 | It was entirely fitting that it should end with a sit-in at the Guildhall by a number of homeless families and with a dispute over the allocation of houses . |
| 29 | It was so scarring that it dominated perceptions in Moscow for years to come . |
| 30 | Dining in the perfect Jacobean hall of Trinity it was only fitting that we should wear dinner jackets ( Hooray for a touch of elitism ! ) |