Example sentences of "[conj] i was [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A little bit of it was brought into the very first episode , the pilot , where I was allowed to play her slightly weird . |
| 2 | The questions of who I was , where I had come from and where I was going struck them with confusion . |
| 3 | You 'd have imagined from all the interest on his face that I was trying to sell him my butterfly collection . |
| 4 | He thought that I was trying to provoke him . |
| 5 | The little round lawn with its grass path was so bitty that I was tempted to remove it altogether , and the two paved areas seemed too small to accommodate much more than a deckchair . |
| 6 | That I was going to visit you each night ? |
| 7 | It was not with my reason that I had fallen in love with him and come to live with him , but it was with my reason that I was going to leave him . |
| 8 | I was surprised to discover , now that I was going to leave it , just how attached I was to the undistinguished piecrust that was Reine , a place neither exciting nor dulling . |
| 9 | ‘ What the hell did you think — that I was going to take you here on the ground — or up against some tree ? |
| 10 | I said that I was going to take you away to Arrancay with me — and keep you there away from all the bitterness and the lies . |
| 11 | ‘ That I was going to see you . ’ |
| 12 | My mother nearly died when she saw the mess but little did she know that I was going to do it all again the next day . |
| 13 | ‘ I said I wanted you just to say it was n't true that I was going to marry him , ’ she said , less confidently . |
| 14 | He was almost relieved — for one ghastly moment , he 'd thought that I was going to tell him I loved him . |
| 15 | I 'd made up my mind that I was going to tell you last night . ’ |
| 16 | With a broad smile , he explained , ‘ When I was talking to him the other day , and I happened to mention that an old friend of my sister 's was coming to Ireland , and that I was going to show her round Dublin , and that we 'd agreed to meet here , and about how scatty … ’ |
| 17 | I knew very well that I was going to pass them all . |
| 18 | The two hour speech that I was going to make I , I cut down because of the weather so I think even though the sun is out , I 'll continue with the abbreviated version of it . |
| 19 | Shortly after my return , the Governor was to make a tour of Central Burma and it seemed a great opportunity for me to gauge conditions outside Rangoon , so I was invited to accompany him . |
| 20 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 21 | Yeah , and I was trying to do it up . |
| 22 | And I was trying to tell him |
| 23 | I had , not here , but at home , a very awful experience of somebody camped on to the electricity board , because the power was off , and I was trying to ring them up , and you ca n't get through to somebody who 's camped on to them . |
| 24 | ‘ And I was beginning to think you were different , ’ he muttered , his tone full of self-mockery . |
| 25 | The referee ignored a blatant handball and several other offences and I was beginning to think it was not our day . |
| 26 | You could feel the crowd willing it in but it did n't make it and I was beginning to feel it was slipping away , and especially when we could only make par at the 17th . |
| 27 | ‘ I had worked as an Assistant Secretary ( senior manager ) full time for three years in a very heavy job and I was beginning to feel I was permanently breathless . |
| 28 | And I was beginning to feel I wanted to strike out on my own . |
| 29 | He had written to me every week when he could , and I was longing to see him again . |
| 30 | This was the first time she had admitted openly that all was not well ; and I was forced to reassure her , for otherwise she might find herself in sympathy with me , she might come to my side , and this was unthinkable , for to be understood by her was a prospect beyond endurance . |