Example sentences of "[subord] i [was/were] walk " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it was dark where I was walking , the blackness stretching away on all sides , it was also , unexpectedly , ringed by lights . |
| 2 | Although I was walking at a normal pace the impact stunned me . |
| 3 | If I 'd a , if I were walking down the street going Nigger ! sorry ! |
| 4 | so , if I was to walk into the place that was selling these |
| 5 | If I was walking down a street and some scaffolding fell on my head I would n't say ‘ oh dear ’ . ' |
| 6 | If I was walking past a building site , I 'd put my head down , trying not to have eye contact with anyone , but I 'd be expecting it anyway — not because I 'm pretty , but because if it 's summer and you 're a girl and , say wearing shorts , it 's inevitable . |
| 7 | The nurse called my name ; I walked into the consulting room , flashing a worn , mechanical smile , but feeling as if I was walking onto the stage at the National without my trousers . |
| 8 | ‘ It was a wonderful feeling — as if I was walking on air . ’ |
| 9 | I did all the usual stuff — I gave her some money and stuck her on a tube train to a night shelter , but while I was walking out of the tube station , I thought to myself , ‘ you complacent bitch ’ ’ you know . |
| 10 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
| 11 | Yeah , I remembered it while I was walking round the shop , cos the more I yeah , the more I thought about it the worse I got when I stood by the machine . |
| 12 | One memory stands out — the sound of a child crying which I heard when I was walking past some flats . |
| 13 | Readings were only normal when I was walking , perhaps because of the tendency of exertion to increase body temperature . |
| 14 | The idea of the vats of the mind reminds me of an occasion when I was walking on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania with some friends , who showed me an oak gall . |
| 15 | ‘ I found him , when I was walking the course , ’ I said apprehensively . |
| 16 | " Do not stray from the path " , said a notice I saw in the Cheviots when I was walking the Pennine Way . |
| 17 | When I was walking past the marsh one , one night , when I was on my way back from school I heard a rus rustling noise behind a bu bush , when I went up the , went up first to the bush a big dragon-like thing jumped out from behind the bush , it gave me such a fright I nearly fainted . |
| 18 | ‘ I could n't believe it when I was walking here , Anne . |
| 19 | ‘ When I was walking up to Keble Road yesterday I saw someone standing at the bus-stop outside St Giles ’ Church , waiting to get up to Summertown . |
| 20 | I only mentioned it when I was walking the dogs . |
| 21 | I 've been , I was thinking today actually when I was walking up the road and I thought oh the is shut again . |
| 22 | and at one stage when I was walking in India we used to stay at bungalows and one was called Marian Shola and another was called Pine Shola , because it meant that it was a , it was a bungalow in a group of pine trees |
| 23 | it 's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun , I thought what have I let myself in for because I 'd never worn dog tags before and I 'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise , I 'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days |
| 24 | One evening as I was walking through the village , I heard a voice coming from the gable end of a cottage , ‘ Bonsoir , Monsieur . |
| 25 | But as I was walking around I noticed how her eyes followed the dog with great interest . |
| 26 | THE other day , as I was walking along the main street of a small town in Buckinghamshire , meditating , as so often , on time and chance , and in particular on the various chances which had combined to bring me there , I suddenly heard a loud crash , followed by urgent shouts and the desperate revving of a car . |
| 27 | I met the old lady as I was walking down a steep path out of the village . |
| 28 | As I was walking down Sackville Street one fine spring day in 1985 I noticed a sign in the window of a bookshop , now no more , advertising BBC books for sale . |
| 29 | As I was walking over to the piano I was thinking , ‘ Should I really be doing this ? ’ |
| 30 | As a result , he once stopped his car as I was walking up the track in Monaco , opened his door and said , ‘ Hop in . ’ |