Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] as i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I noticed I was humming as I tidied my things ; a little hymn ; ‘ Green Hill Far Away , ’ as it happened . |
| 2 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 3 | But Clare was ten thousand miles away , I was thinking as I woke up , while Toma made fresh coffee and cooked me a man-sized breakfast of local bacon-cum-ham and two of the island 's tiny eggs . |
| 4 | That was the real reason I was sweating as I went to bed that night . |
| 5 | I was shaking as I crossed the room … |
| 6 | ‘ I knew something was happening as I got to the hospital steps . |