Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I were laughing were n't I ? |
| 2 | Cos when he had that first kid , you know , when he moved here and I were asking be nice if you 'd had a a girl . |
| 3 | The yarn I was using was cotton , a double knitting weight and not the best for cabling at any time and I did need to have cables , since I had sketched them into my design . |
| 4 | The mosquito net I was using was less than perfect and my limbs touched the net at night , so the mosquitoes lined up on the net and bit me through it . |
| 5 | One of the hypotheses I was considering was that during REM sleep ( and therefore during REM sleep dreams ) the entire memory system is accessible — none of the inhibitions present during wakeful life are active , and new memories can be fitted in to the appropriate cognitive structures during REM sleep . |
| 6 | What I was experiencing was an islander 's version of the tea-ceremony and its ritual . |
| 7 | I attempted desperately to convince myself that what I was experiencing was just a particularly cruel and hateful dream concocted by some part of my mind determined to exact due penalty from my conscience for my having behaved with such despicable lack of grace during the holidays … but failed utterly ; my sub-conscious ' stock of nightmare-paradigms includes nothing so banally twisted as Gav . |
| 8 | As a result of 400 years of Portuguese rule , the state of Goa is quite unlike the rest of India , and the house where I was dining was quite unlike any equivalent in Bihar or Madya Pradesh . |
| 9 | What I was seeing was surely the opposite of what was actually happening . |
| 10 | When I looked in the mirror and told myself , first , ‘ that ca n't be me ’ , and later , ‘ that wo n't be me ’ , what I was seeing was a woman . |
| 11 | Possibly what I was seeing was not Birmingham but our urban and industrial civilisation . |
| 12 | I was learning was how to feel less obsessed with controlling my eating and my body , and a little more in control of my life . |
| 13 | Well what I was thinking is , I mean |
| 14 | And it was getting dragged back and the engine was going like mad trying to push it along and the wind was pushing me back , and I was thinking am I going forwards or backward here ? |
| 15 | Now what I was thinking was erm you know , what I wondered was , shall we do er a circular game and , get yourselves into a circle quickly |
| 16 | What I was thinking was … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ What I was thinking was , why should I do anything ? ’ said Constance . |
| 18 | If , I think if that 's the one I was thinking was mm |
| 19 | And I suppose what I was thinking was that when he 's worked till five or six he was doing it every day , but he has n't . |
| 20 | I know you 'll think I 've got no end of a cheek , but what I was hoping was that you 'd ring Rosemary for me and , if her parents were n't about , pass the phone over to me . ’ |
| 21 | I was told this was a retrograde step : what I was advocating was narrow nationalism in an age of increasing internationalism . |
| 22 | I was pushing was n't I ? |
| 23 | On one of these outings , the nervous mare I was riding was already unsettled by strong winds . |
| 24 | My domino playing was at its peak and all that I was achieving was gained through natural talent . |
| 25 | I consulted the programme and discovered that what I was regarding was the rose garden of an English country house , circa 1922 . |
| 26 | The food in the Gasthof Widman where I was staying was remarkable . |
| 27 | What I was getting was just what the salesman adviser had in his bag that would earn him commission . ’ |
| 28 | I was already working as Derek 's apprentice carpet-fitter in my spare time — when I had any — but the wage I was getting was going not only on the birds ' upkeep but also on mine . |
| 29 | There were laughs and cheers at the end when the character I was playing is running to the church . |
| 30 | Erm a and the , the person I was playing is a friend of mine , he does do a lot of flying |