Example sentences of "i was [v-ing] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 I was learning to shut out the daily discomforts , however , either by looking around , or by playing mental games .
2 I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape .
3 The person whom I was going to take over the job from said to me at the end of the meeting well what do you think of that meeting and I must admit I the answer and luckily somebody else instructed with some other business and I felt I got off the hook here but in fact that got dealt with very quickly and he came back to me and said well what did you think of the meeting and I had to say to him just one word , was the way I put it .
4 My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust .
5 I was going to phone up the A T S tyre people just to find out
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