Example sentences of "i [was/were] look " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were looking for a record deal , I would be pursuing individual A&R people , getting them to come and see my band . |
| 2 | If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail . |
| 3 | I were looking at your feet but |
| 4 | as if I were looking |
| 5 | Tal talking about pensions Tom , the chap er cha with the office girls and that and , and checking our expense sheets , he , he er they put a notice on the board you could ante your what , in your pension , you could a put a bit more into it and I were looking at notice and he says ooh he says it 's no good for you , he says er w well I told you about it did n't I ? |
| 6 | There 's the one I were looking for . |
| 7 | I noticed , I were looking at prices , they 're all different prices . |
| 8 | Anyway I were looking and I looked and I looked and I looked and I says well what cigarettes do you use for it ? |
| 9 | I were looking at that one |
| 10 | I were looking for an alarm clock , I thought I better have a new one else I 'm gon na start sleeping in for work . |
| 11 | Cos I were looking at Steve 's . |
| 12 | I could never replace you … never find your equal if I were to look until the very day I die . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ This result is exactly what I was looking for , ’ Prost said . |
| 14 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said , ‘ I was looking for something else . ’ |
| 15 | He must have sensed that I was looking at him , he suddenly glanced at me out of the corner of his eyes and , still cleaning the mess tin with his finger , he said quietly , ‘ Why are you staring at me like that , Piper ? |
| 16 | But I was not going for a bus ride , I was looking for the gents . |
| 17 | I was looking in all the shop windows , at the reflections . |
| 18 | ‘ I was looking after her chickens for her until she came home , ’ Liam had cried in the chapel . |
| 19 | ‘ I was looking for you all over . |
| 20 | I think these things were not common in those days and I was looking for someone who had great potential , and decided I 'd found it in David Bowie . |
| 21 | As a producer ‘ Space Oddity ’ was very important to me as it was only my second or third record and I was looking forward to seeing David play it live . |
| 22 | So I was looking around the Beckenham and Bromley area when I found this place called Haddon Hall which was an amazing property . |
| 23 | I was looking forward to a couple of hours of vigorous strolling in the company of what I assumed would be a garrulous , suitably eccentric English guide . |
| 24 | ‘ I was looking forward to the ride . |
| 25 | I was looking for your number once . |
| 26 | About twelve years later , when I was looking back on that meeting with Dana , I wrote the following poem : |
| 27 | Without noticing it , while I was looking the other way , I had become old ; so old that I was an ‘ old lady ’ , known as such at the village school . |
| 28 | Although she had never shown even the remotest sign of lameness I was looking at the worst case of hip dysplasia I had seen for some time . |
| 29 | I was the one he was looking for , and he was the one I was looking for . ’ |
| 30 | When I remarked that this was a pity , since I was looking for a peat replacement to acidify limey soil , my man began detectably to back-pedal . |