Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [v-ing] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was chatting to her one lunch-time and just happened to mention that I kept and bred barn owls . |
| 2 | Ah now you think about it , I mean there was this question in our maths test and I was chatting to him in the dinner queue about it and I was going yeah it was this and he goes oh you 're probably right and he was agreeing with me and I found out later that I was wrong but he still agreed with me . |
| 3 | Later , at Reykjavik , I was chatting to somebody , telling them about the Ernir flights . |
| 4 | I was chatting to his nan , his nan 's amazing you know , she 's a right traveller . |
| 5 | but , I was listening to myself on that |
| 6 | What I was listening to myself on that . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But gosh , I was listening to everybody , jazz guitarists like Tal Farlow … ’ |
| 9 | I do n't believe I was listening to her very closely . |
| 10 | FOR EXAMPLE , LAST WEEK I WAS LISTENING to my favourite recorded of Paganini 's First Violin Concerto , which I have treasured for many years , largely due to the soloists extraordinary playing . |
| 11 | But , of course , it does n't always work ; I was listening to my second recording of the Liszt Sonata about a year ago , and found things there that did not satisfy me . |
| 12 | Those G Ps told me , I thought I was listening to my own speeches to be honest , from about a year or two ago . |
| 13 | We began to discuss what should be done and how I would manage to support the children , and if , from time to time , I had the feeling that something was wrong , it was only in a distant , elusive way , as if I was listening to someone playing a piano on the other side of the road and hearing occasionally , but only occasionally , a wrong note . |
| 14 | Do n't talk to it because it ma it sounds stu I was listening to us this morning . |
| 15 | I was listening to it t oh I 've got a letter for you . |
| 16 | When we were walking over here this morning , I was suggesting to you that in fact computers , really , were numeric devices — they did arithmetic _ and I 'm not sure you actually agreed with me . |
| 17 | Little did he know I was referring to him , to his associates , and in particular , to that alliance of the devil : Hitler and Mussolini . |
| 18 | ‘ Look … ’ she began in a cool voice , glancing round for Tara , who seemed to have disappeared into the house , ‘ when I used the phrase ‘ playing gooseberry ’ , I was referring to my staying at Hummingbird House . |
| 19 | ‘ I was referring to my business . |
| 20 | Anyway , I got up , and went about my chores , feeding the cats and brewing tea for the rest of the still-slumbering inhabitants of my humble home in order to get them up and out to school and work , and I was thinking to myself as the kettle boiled that here was the start of yet another ordinary damned day , when the post clanked and slithered through the letter box . |
| 21 | I was thinking to myself that he would have blown most of it on horses and strong drink . |
| 22 | With him , well for some reason he does n't like us , well , you say I was thinking , I 've been thinking as you know this is the sort of thing that I , gets on to my mind , but I was thinking to myself well really and truly we are so honest people ourselves , we do n't go round you know and screw sort of fiddling things , I suppose it comes to hard to us when we discover other people have |
| 23 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 24 | I remembered the honesty of Masquerade in a force five wind , and then I thought of all the good days to come ; days of Ellen and me and Masquerade in far seas , and I must have smiled , for Robin-Anne nodded approval of whatever silent answer I was framing to her question . |
| 25 | I was writing to my MP who was writing to the Secretary of State who was writing to the High Commisioner and it just went on . |
| 26 | I was writing to my friend Darren moaning about it . |
| 27 | I was clinging to her legs . |
| 28 | I was getting to him . |
| 29 | I thought I was getting to him . |
| 30 | I believe , perhaps , even then , I was speaking to him , to Leon . |