Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] i [was/were] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 2 | Except , that , except that of course I was doing everything for everybody . |
| 3 | But you dare n't take the risk of trying it on in case I was calling your bluff and would refuse you . |
| 4 | When they reached their van they drove off a short distance in case I was observing them . |
| 5 | But I was thankful when the summer holiday started and I could be released from duties I was finding it harder and harder to cope with . |
| 6 | In Harrogate I was to meet my editor for a pep talk . |
| 7 | more through magazines than I did at school , because in school I was taught nothing about pleasure , it was all very biological with a diagram of the male and the female , exactly what happened , there was nothing about er , sexually transmitted diseases , pleasure or abortion , contraception , nothing mentioned , only the mere basics . |
| 8 | 'I persuaded myself that I did n't want to introduce irrelevances into your investigation , when in fact I was protecting myself from having to relive traumas of the past . |
| 9 | Then on Monday I was told I was n't getting the vehicle . |
| 10 | It was curiosity , when I was sixteen at school I was told I had another sister at the same school . |
| 11 | I think it 's to do my riding exams but , I ca as I said , cos Brenda whose horse I ride up at Bridley I was telling her and I said , why would the spirit world get in such a state |
| 12 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |