Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [conj] [pron] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was laughing when he said it . |
| 2 | He was laughing as he said this , but Cassie was not entirely sure that she found the idea particularly funny . |
| 3 | I was gardening and he said er er I bent over to do something and he said I just went dizzy , he said , and I fell over he said and then I realized my right side was paralysed . |
| 4 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 5 | She was grinning as she said it , but he did n't take that in and yelled at her about Women 's Lib claptrap . |
| 6 | It was my first baby and I was panicking and he said there was no need to panic ! |
| 7 | He was lying when he said he 'd checked the house . |
| 8 | I , I , I was supposed to have a lift , and erm I was waiting like I say ten to five we knock off half one you see and the guy never turned up , the car was there but |
| 9 | Millie 's voice was breaking as she said , ‘ Oh , yes , yes , Mrs Aggie , I understand . |
| 10 | And we was walking down Street when a soldier was coming and he said er , You want to er you want to make haste home me lads the Zeppelins are about , you see . |
| 11 | we used to go every year be go round to erm for a bonfire but the old boy was saying that he said they ca n't afford it next year . |
| 12 | Yeah well changes platforms of all these trains , anyway after a bit we decided that the Redditch train was going to come in before the train , so , er they did n't change it to say it was n't going to Redditch cos once when I was doing that they said to me , the lad was it , because it 's not to ready to change that time , you would n't matter , cos oh there 's people here waiting to go to Redditch , change it , so he said oh anyway it came , the twelve six came all the young folks going to you should of seen the number that had got off |
| 13 | Of his talk with Mr Yeltsin , Mr Clinton said : ‘ We just talked about what he was doing and I said I supported democracy and free-market economics in Russia . ’ |
| 14 | But I called him up one day and asked him how he was doing and he said things were pretty good , so I asked if he still wanted to do that album . |
| 15 | Hakluyt was exaggerating when he said that Englishmen had excelled all the nations and people of the earth in their explorations , but he was quite right when he asked : |
| 16 | I 'll ask him if he was joking when he said there was a wild animal in my woods . |
| 17 | if they 'd keep for Christmas that 's why they charged so much for them , those Mackintosh reds and that , and I mean it told you then in one of those magazines that were , John was reading that he said make sure that you wash those apples before you eat them . |
| 18 | He was sitting and he said oh I 'll write Iris a few lines . |
| 19 | She was shaking as she said that ; fierce little tremors of nerves shook her . |
| 20 | It was the state to which Weber was referring when he said , in a famous phrase , that , in order to be , it must ‘ successfully claim the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory ’ . |
| 21 | So umm we was chatting and I said oh it 's your birthday on Sunday . |
| 22 | and I said and I was hesitating and I said I 'm sorry I said I feel a bit embarrassed he said for what reason and old Rose was with me well at door she said she knows me she said well she said if it will interest you what if I never . |
| 23 | But you see , I just went to the education officer and I say , he , he ran it , he , it , it was , it was his responsibility the Guild 's were and I went to him about a Guild matter and I said oh , erm how I mentioned that I was working and he said well where are you working ? |
| 24 | To her astonishment he was smiling as he said , ‘ No need to look so unwelcoming . |