Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean technically we do have an entitlement to visits in that Janet was was reminding me the other day that that we said , when Deborah was here , that everybody was entitled to four visits a year . |
| 2 | Lizzie had bought the kind of steak he liked and now he was cooking it the way he wanted . |
| 3 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
| 4 | Stepney in the late 18th century was becoming what the Northern Heights — Highgate and Hampstead — became later , namely , an early form of London suburbia . |
| 5 | I just wan na find out who was writing them the letters and then I can finish . |
| 6 | Hitler no longer seemed to be speaking to convince ; rather , he seemed to feel that he was expressing what the audience , by now transformed into a single mass , expected of him . |
| 7 | After my fourth or fifth lesson I was able to see that it was I who was causing myself the discomfort . |
| 8 | This time I left it up to my patient to decide which area of her life was causing her the most distress . |
| 9 | Erm , I was erm , put on just for in ninety seventy three and your question that you 're asked was and from nineteen seventy three till three years ago erm I know took my causes , I trust , put my trust in the doctors and erm over all those years I did n't realize that it was actually the tablets that was causing me the mental illness . |
| 10 | And again perhaps to follow up a previous question and the question is this , that in the first draft of the statement of faith which was presented two years ago , there was a very clear statement which said that Christ died for our sin in connection with the cross and I was wondering what the reasoning was which took away that very specific meaning of the death of the Christ into a much more general and ambiguous one in the statement before us today . |
| 11 | This paradox remained until early 1974 , when I was investigating what the behavior of matter in the vicinity of a black hole would be according to quantum mechanics . |
| 12 | The doctor was paying her the ten shillings , she could afford to be friendly . |
| 13 | He gave the Clerk of the Court his name and that of the person he was suing whom the clerk called the defendant . |
| 14 | ‘ Who was selling her the stuff , this same man ? ’ |
| 15 | She was tellin' me the ovver day she wants Fred ter try an' get that empty 'ouse next door ter make the place bigger . |
| 16 | Thank you very much indeed for the smelly duck — or should I say scented , it is such a nice smell ! — and for the pretty scarf which , you may be surprised to hear , Mark admired when I was wearing it the other day though he had n't realized it was new and from you ! |
| 17 | Er , oh in the example that I gave , yes , because it was totalling what the grand total . |
| 18 | His narrow victory at Mosport over Regazzoni put the two men equal on points with one race to go at Watkins glen , with Scheckter still in with an outside chance , and when Rega retired , Emerson settled in behind Reutemann , Pace and Hunt for the fourth place which was to give him the championship . |
| 19 | If she wanted Lori gone then the quickest way was to give her the coffee she 'd asked for . |
| 20 | I was teaching them the fine art of drinking Tequila Slammers , one of the fastest ways of getting spifflicated known to man . |
| 21 | Not to know her , not to love her ( at the very least , not to want to love her ) was to deny oneself the totality of experience . |
| 22 | ‘ They 're likely to charge him over the weekend , so Gerry was tipping me the wink there 's no story for us . |
| 23 | She was berating me the whole time . |
| 24 | He was doing what the saint willed . ’ |
| 25 | Her defence , that in providing for the poor she was doing what the HUD was supposed to do , earned her the nickname " Robin HUD " . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , she was doing it the first time I laid eyes on her ! ’ |
| 27 | I was doing it the other day yes . |
| 28 | Jean was asking me the other day , and really , you 've told me next to nothing . |
| 29 | She was asking herself the same question . |
| 30 | Everyone was closing their the theatres , but the independents and smaller circuits closed proportionally more , thus shifting the proportion of the box office take in favour of the conglomerates which owned the larger and more salubrious houses . |