Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noticing that I was not provided for , he slapped his right-side coat pocket and , diving in , produced an opened packet of Gauloise Bleu , from which loose container he took out a cigarette . |
| 2 | So crazed were we becoming that I was sure that even at that distance we could spot the fiendish grin he directed at Sinar Surya floundering on the horizon each time he passed ! |
| 3 | He persuaded them that I was not employed by the Government , explaining that I was under the Emperor 5 personal protection , which accounted for my escort of soldiers . |
| 4 | After checking that I was not talking to the media , I asked what the nature of her enquiry was , and she proceeded to furnish me with the facts . |
| 5 | Trippy was not really interested in my financial situation ; he was just checking that I was paying for dinner . |
| 6 | I shot him between the eyes and then I was off , down the smallest streets , and I did n't stop pedalling until I was back in this Villa Baderini , which , as a matter of fact , used to be my father 's . |
| 7 | At long last it was happening and I was receiving confirmation that the exotic and rare species , The Homosexual , existed somewhere else other than in my imagination . |
| 8 | The local papers got wind in advance of what was happening and I was petrified that the police would come bursting in to arrest us all . |
| 9 | Not a lot was happening and I was really tired so I decided to go to bed . |
| 10 | ‘ I was terribly upset about my husband dying and I was n't 100 per cent . |
| 11 | ‘ Everyone started laughing and I was concerned that ‘ Jacki ’ might feel alienated but he immediately started laughing himself and I knew I 'd signed a character who 'd get on fine in Scotland . ’ |
| 12 | The woman and three children were now laughing and I was pleased about that , as they had looked scared stiff when I entered their house a few moments before . |
| 13 | Not because I wanted to go back to my childhood but because I had a deep , healthy interest in finding out a bit more about what was happening while I was growing up . |
| 14 | I 've been painting since I was old enough to pick up a brush . |
| 15 | I could not see what was happening as I was falling upsidedown and my legs obscured all view of the aircraft above me . |
| 16 | Well I can mind us making a wreath at school when Miriam died , that was the only only body I ever remember dying when I was at school . |
| 17 | I am not suggesting that I was a ‘ truly creative intellect ’ — merely that I was denied the opportunity to find out whether I could achieve any such position , and this was an omission I felt very keenly . |
| 18 | This is ironic , seeing that I was campaigning about making assumptions about gender through language . |
| 19 | I was bleeding from a laceration on my scalp and was so drunk that I had no recollection of what had happened ; a Sergeant quizzed me closely and seeing that I was incapable of speech , took me downstairs and put me into an ambulance . |
| 20 | I never actually reached puberty , in terms of periods , although I can remember feeling lumps developing in my breasts , and being momentarily shocked before realising that I was growing up . |
| 21 | I would dip blanket after blanket in boiling water , wring them out almost without realising that I was scalding myself , take off the old strips of saturated cloth , wrap the new ones round each leg and tuck them into the corners of affected muscles , but half the time not really knowing what I was doing . |
| 22 | One event which has lived in my memory , and which I would not have liked to repeat , was of cycling home one evening ( I lived near Altrincham ) — and I was in the middle of Barton Bridge when I heard a German bomber overhead — I have never pedalled so quickly since , realising that I was in the middle of a prime target . |
| 23 | Realising that I was now unrepresented in the 5 ft 11 inch society , I searched my soul , but had become insufficiently double-jointed to see round the back ! |
| 24 | Realising that I was piqued by the recognition that I was not singular even in what I had considered an inadequacy , I convicted myself of lack of humility . |
| 25 | While the war continued I could ( almost ) fool myself into believing that I was like those other women who were merely separated from their men ‘ for the duration ’ — or , if not that , at least I felt that my life was suspended . |
| 26 | I was really excited , believing that I was going places . |
| 27 | I said I would think about it , never for a minute believing that I was qualified to take a pupil . |
| 28 | ‘ Are you implying that I was a common criminal ? |
| 29 | I was n't listening cos I was writing them down . |
| 30 | IN the middle 80s , snooker was booming and I was doing my best to cash-in on selling it around the world . |