Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] i [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yer know , Doll , when I was about fifty , and goin' through you know what , well this Sunday I was feelin' there was n't much left to go on livin' for . |
| 2 | This morning I was imagining I 'd escaped and that Caliban was in court . |
| 3 | beautiful trays in John Lewis 's this morning I was licking my lips with desire , Brenda ! |
| 4 | He says this morning I was putting it on . |
| 5 | ‘ That policewoman I was telling you about , ’ she exclaimed over her shoulder . |
| 6 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 7 | On that morning I was giving them the latest news of Nigel . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't really ‘ bang it ’ but at one stage I was doing it three weekends out of four . |
| 9 | So the , you know that thing I was showing you about , th finding them bones the other night ? |
| 10 | Nicole , this is Alyssia , the young girl I was telling you about . |
| 11 | After eighteen years I was feeling everything was against me . |
| 12 | The other day I was telling her about something that had happened , crying as I told the story , and she started crying too . |
| 13 | But I had a lot to drink and that 's that time I was telling you about . |
| 14 | At that time I was turning it out with some facility , and I had had two poems published in The Isis in my first year . |
| 15 | After about a week she was tearing off big lumps of the dead chicks I was feeding her . |
| 16 | Until the last minute I was revising our document , often making significant alterations , and ringing up members of the Group for their assent . |
| 17 | In both instances I was declaring my unwillingness to compete and my fear of competition . |
| 18 | The whole time I was carrying it , I was n't worried about the birth . |