Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [that] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is not the hypocrisy and confusion in the Opposition ranks shown by the fact that , when that judgment was announced , the legal affairs spokesman for the Opposition was immediately in the media demanding my right hon. Friend 's resignation , while the shadow Home Secretary was demanding that he remain . |
| 2 | The letter was dated almost a week previously , and as Merrill read it she realised with dismay that Richard was already in the area and was suggesting that they meet in the lounge of Frobishers ' at seven o'clock on Saturday — this evening . |
| 3 | I was so sure I was drowning that I forgot about the race and screamed out , " Father ! |
| 4 | It was touching that they cared about you . ’ |
| 5 | Before I was in the band if I saw that something was happening that I did n't like I 'd say nothing and go along with it . |
| 6 | I believe now the driver — I did n't see who it was — was checking that I had left the pub . |
| 7 | I was explaining that we had fallen in need of a housekeeper and an under-butler at one and the same time and Miss Kenton had arrived — with unusually good references , I recall — to take up the former post . |
| 8 | My aunt was explaining that she had come up to visit me . |
| 9 | I had a husband who was pretending that I did not have cancer , and a mother who tried to inspire me by showing me pictures of Page Three girls under banner headlines of ‘ How I conquered cancer ’ . |
| 10 | Anna was so startled by his perception and directness that she said , ‘ I was worrying that you had got the wrong impression , that you — ’ She stopped , silenced by loyalty . |
| 11 | In the same letter to Nannerl , of 3 or 4 November , 1785 , Leopold was grumbling that he had n't heard a word from Wolfgang recently , but that a journalist friend had mentioned something about a new opera . |
| 12 | It was not until I was at a conference at which Jean Darnall was speaking that I saw the need to ask others to pray for me . |
| 13 | On 30 June Brent London Borough Council 's solicitors were put on notice that M. was complaining that he had not been served personally by them with a copy of the formal order and arranged that he be so served on 3 July . |
| 14 | By the week 's end the proctologist was saying that it had been the best goddamned vacation he had ever taken , and as we passed the bunkering moorings near McIllvanney 's yard I saw him take Ellen aside and I guessed he was offering her a job . |
| 15 | R.B. Yes , another teacher mentioned this when I talked to her and I was saying that it seemed to me that it was a blind spot . |
| 16 | Implicitly , the Government was saying that it knew what the problems were , and how they could be tackled . |
| 17 | I meant who was it that was saying that it does n't matter ? |
| 18 | Except she was saying that you 'd actually offered her the job . ’ |
| 19 | One of the teachers was saying that you give children pieces of paper to draw anything and most of them will draw a soldier carrying a gun or Caspers , or helicopters , something to do with war . |
| 20 | Paul was saying that I mean , they 're a hundred percent nomination housing the people who need the housing most are are n't the ones who who 'll be able to er , to use the and there 's no housing strategy on on er o o on the equity part , the the there might be , only a tiny bit , on on on the rent side but it does n't homes fo for the people who really need it , even if they 've got a hundred percent nomination flats ! |
| 21 | ‘ By wearing a uniform , it was saying that I resist democracy , rather than support it , ’ he said . |
| 22 | He was saying that I had a better disguise than he did . |
| 23 | erm , so that if , if they then go to an appeal er , I was talking to this planning officer and I was saying that I think I 'll consult them , he said I do n't think you 'll need to he said , and of what you 've done so far is pretty good and I can get access to all the letters that have been written in , in objecting into the into the homes |
| 24 | One of the girls , today , she wasn' say she was n't sure , but she was saying that she heard that perhaps the exam structure you have to incorporate all three phases of the |
| 25 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
| 26 | She too was saying that she had an urge to go down with her broom and sweep up the these building works . |
| 27 | For those of us who ca n't make Goodison I think R5 has full commentary on the match … infact they interviewed Wilko last night who was saying that he had n't thought about whether or not anyone could catch Scum , but he was only interested in how many points we could get ‘ it 's like the Grand National ’ , he said , ‘ plenty of favourites fall the seconf time round ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Jackson was so interested in what I was saying that he forgot to deny he knew what I was talking about . |
| 30 | 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 |