Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] " 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 | Nicole , this is Alyssia , the young girl I was telling you about . |
| 4 | ‘ You remember the girl I was telling you about ? |
| 5 | The other day I was telling her about something that had happened , crying as I told the story , and she started crying too . |
| 6 | ‘ That policewoman I was telling you about , ’ she exclaimed over her shoulder . |
| 7 | So the , you know that thing I was showing you about , th finding them bones the other night ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's the name of the worm I was telling you about , ’ said Preston , ‘ the one that lives in canine excreta . |
| 10 | But I had a lot to drink and that 's that time I was telling you about . |
| 11 | I got her a pair of tough brogues from the plastic bag and all the time I was putting them on her she was looking at me with a vacant stare , her eyes still very wide , the pupils enormous . |
| 12 | Well not so much cheaper cos I was most of the time I was doing it for nothing anyway . |
| 13 | '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 . |
| 14 | Besides , I 'll have to oh that er garden party I was telling you about |