Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [pron] [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Peter I sa la one night last week oh it was the week before I was going up past and this fella was walking and he was fucking staggering and he was going on the road and Peter 's came back and fucking him . |
| 2 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 3 | Okay well do n't worry do n't worry he ca n't you know just think of something though having said that if you look at the role that you played in the group moving towards the chairman 's style , taking over the group perhaps becoming and you were n't a person that sort of took over and forced your views on everybody but you were certainly up there at the front with and listening to people taking information and manipulating everything that you had to fit what was coming in from everybody so that does show Chairman 's skills , Chairman tendencies |
| 4 | Not a lot was happening and I was really tired so I decided to go to bed . |
| 5 | Something was happening and it was so pleasurable she did n't want it to fade . |
| 6 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 7 | ‘ I was terribly upset about my husband dying and I was n't 100 per cent . |
| 8 | THE BARE STONE WALLS OBVIATED THE NEED FOR WALLCOVERING AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE ASHLEYS MOVED TO THEIR NEXT HOUSE THAT THEY PRESSED AHEAD WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF WALLPAPER . |
| 9 | Never went out till Friday because it was , they went walking but it was so windy cos they 're here and the garden 's sort of down to a field and then it 's all fields and fields and fields and the wind just comes across like gales all the time . |
| 10 | But either it was not hunting or he was too big to tackle , for it disappeared over the heather ; and although he waited motionless for some time , it did not return . |
| 11 | Either the place was worth searching or it was n't . |
| 12 | There were ten teams competing and they were down as ‘ Hawkwood Comprehensive ’ . |
| 13 | A blackbird was singing and it was very quiet and peaceful in the Park . |
| 14 | I was struggling and I was n't going anywhere . |
| 15 | Some were eating and there was always the chance when this happened that they might put something into the Cages for the eagles . |
| 16 | Why do you bother paying and we were just mucking about you know , like I know something |
| 17 | That unsettled me a bit , but we eventually got going and it was all right . |
| 18 | And we did n't know we could see her and we were looking out the window going and he was there looking , put his sunglasses on to see . |
| 19 | Her mouth was everywhere , biting me and sucking my mouth and kissing me , and her fingers pinched and stroked her legs coiled round my legs until every bit of me was throbbing and burning and twitching and I was only conscious of never wanting it to stop . |
| 20 | Back down the beach , the Big Wheel was turning and there were even queues waiting to get on . |
| 21 | The operation was carried out at the National Heart the next day , with the odds improving and I was then transferred to Harefield for five weeks . |
| 22 | So we , we th that , that was er another good thing they , they got going but there was very little for , for nurses to do . |
| 23 | I knew I was lying but there was n't anything I could do about it . |
| 24 | He turned to the wall where it should have been hanging but there was only an empty bracket . |
| 25 | I stirred the potato powder into the liquid and would have begun eating but it was too hot . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was like sleepwalking and she was n't aware of it . |
| 27 | His face was bleeding and he was clearly very frightened . |
| 28 | The sexual revolution was beginning and it was very exciting to get away from home and enjoy yourself in a relatively guilt-free way . ’ |
| 29 | I was busting and I was there going I said and I could n't exactly say can I go to the toilet ? |
| 30 | The goal was just the shock needed to get Town moving and they were back in the match just four minutes later … goal poacher Steve White who scored a hat-trick last saturday was there again to make it one all … |