Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye I were reading that they did a survey on it did n't they ? |
| 2 | That 's what Julie and I were saying that when you live on your own you get a bit like that . |
| 3 | ‘ By the end of the last act I was swearing that this was the most marvellous Coriolanus in every conceivable way that I should ever hope to see , ’ wrote T. C. Worsley in the Financial Times . |
| 4 | I was sitting on the sofa , quietly crying ; I think I was wishing that Auschwitz looked better than it did , just now , with its windless heat and plagues of flies homing in on the marshes . |
| 5 | yeah , I was watching that erm It 's Your Pry Affair on |
| 6 | Well I do n't I was suggesting we were becoming one but I was suggesting that the Prime Minister thought this is desirable . |
| 7 | No , I 'm I was suggesting that the odds are against them and that men have used a type of emotional blackmail against women , which has always been very successful , where they 're actually forced , because there are no things like cheap or free workplace nurseries , they are forced to be the primary carers . |
| 8 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 9 | Oh yes , I was assuming that erm a I do , I did n't really set it out as a formal agenda just as a |
| 10 | Well I think that when I said that I think that given a man and a woman of equal qualifications I was assuming that that had been taken into account . |
| 11 | It was most unusual to see Taff down like this and as I gave him my condolences I was thinking that the sadness was beginning to reach almost everyone . |
| 12 | ‘ I was thinking that whenever I 've been into a student 's flat there was a different atmosphere … a lot of things pinned up on the walls , for instance posters mostly … ’ |
| 13 | It is likely to be , even , that two mental events are not of the same type on two occasions when I give a more explicit description of my experience , perhaps that I was thinking that my daughter is a quick thinker . |
| 14 | I mean I was thinking that you can actually with Linda actually you know because I loiter Linda today 's meeting obviously |
| 15 | But , even then I was thinking that we might , in actual fact , start looking at attainment target one and certainly fill in , you know |
| 16 | ‘ I was thinking that , ’ Molly agreed . |
| 17 | And he 's erm when we were thinking about tax planning , I was thinking that if a , a , a qualifying endowment , if it 's run for ten years , the one big advantage is that it always pays without deduction of tax . |
| 18 | I was thinking that perhaps you could arrange for me to be one of the team . |
| 19 | I was thinking that if you do want to get a colour one at some time |
| 20 | ‘ I was thinking that an obviously romantic setting has something to be said for it . |
| 21 | Valerie Jones of London ( Letters NI 198 ) criticizes you for not wholeheartedly supporting Sendero Luminoso ( A shining path of blood ) in Peru , while I was thinking that you were not sufficiently unequivocal in your condemnation of Sendero Luminoso . |
| 22 | I was thinking that if I could n't be a nurse I just wanted to die … |
| 23 | Their expertise lies in enabling others and others to take advantage of arts facilities and helping them erm or working with them to produce the things that happen , for example all the erm posters which were up during last years festival erm were produced in conjunction with community arts which erm has erm er produced on Ditchfern Place , erm and earlier this morning I was thinking that up as I think other councillors did , that more serious of projects which community arts are now entering into er in Chesterton in particularly in the children erm I think councillors went to Dickfield women 's photograph project and it is things like that about giving people confidence to join arts in a way erm with which they might never otherwise have experienced and the community arts have taken just that . |
| 24 | No , I was thinking that if you were going you would n't want to eat it . |
| 25 | Yeah I was thinking that actually |
| 26 | No I was thinking that I 've seen her perhaps I was thinking , you know , you remind me of it . |
| 27 | I was hoping that Steinmark would be back on Monday but I 'm afraid that you will have to carry on the best you can . |
| 28 | I was hoping that P & I 's would be having a sale and that I could get a new concordance but she would n't even let me look . |
| 29 | I was hoping that Vecchi would show up in the near future and save everybody a lot of headaches . |
| 30 | I was hoping that perhaps human beings would change their ways after reading the stories of my life with the Houys . |