Example sentences of "[subord] i [was/were] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early next morning we approached Port Augusta where I was getting off . |
| 2 | I 'd met the Parsons a week earlier , at an end-of-term social at the language school where I was teaching . |
| 3 | We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin . |
| 4 | The food in the Gasthof Widman where I was staying was remarkable . |
| 5 | Back that the al-Rasheed hotel , where I was staying , I made sporadic efforts to escape this undercurrent of hysteria . |
| 6 | I told him who I was and where I was staying and then forgot the whole incident . |
| 7 | The strangers ' faces were barely visible , but from ground level ( where I was leaning out of the tent ) I could see that three of them were wearing football boots . |
| 8 | Gray picks at a salad as she talks : ’ I did this one interview where I was eating a cheeseburger and this guy wrote all about the blob of ketchup oozing down my chin , ’ she says . |
| 9 | And it was right one evening , at an art college gig where I was helping lug the gear to the van . |
| 10 | At Cambridge , NUPE put a picket around the Union building where I was taking part in a debate and the police wanted to take me in by a side entrance . |
| 11 | However , although unemployment was starting to come down , especially in the south-east where I was living , it was still generally pretty high . |
| 12 | Jordi had been in Salamanca only one day but he had found out where I was living . |
| 13 | It was very hot in the scout hut where I was watching the preparations , so the clay was constantly being sprayed to prevent it drying out . |
| 14 | David and I went to the travel agency where I was working a couple of times and kept saying , ‘ What are you doing here ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I remember when I was in the middle of a presentation in the advertising agency where I was working and the phone went . |
| 16 | ‘ My mother used to phone people up , people where I was working , and say : ‘ Now , you be very careful of my daughter . ’ |
| 17 | His apartment in New York would be no place to keep an African antelope , and so he came to the nature reserve where I was working . |
| 18 | The reference to the ‘ friend ’ had to do with my association with the Speech Institute , where I was giving a course of lectures on what the Directress , Miss Marjorie Gullan , liked to call ‘ Modernist Poetry ’ ( for it was still considered that ‘ poetry ’ ended with the Georgians , whom we had all studied at school , and that Pound and Eliot were advanced experimenters ) . |
| 19 | Although it was dark where I was walking , the blackness stretching away on all sides , it was also , unexpectedly , ringed by lights . |
| 20 | Where I was stretching I used to itch all over and I used to get very upset . |
| 21 | It 's not silent — there 's the train on the ridge , the soughing of wind around the great buttresses above , lake-water lapping on the shingle shore where I was standing . |
| 22 | Now I could not hear what was going on and I was quite sure nobody could hit a ball , or whatever they use in baseball , away out where I was standing . |
| 23 | I went to a clairvoyant once , when I was young and needed to be told , by anybody , who I was and where I was heading . |
| 24 | The wind that blew tin cans along the streets of the dormitory suburb where I was growing up was the same wind that howled round peak and scar and wrested piccolo tunes from the reed patches below the drystone walls . |
| 25 | Where I was doing the space walk . |
| 26 | Because where I was making boxes it was pulling the skin and was torn apart was n't it ? |
| 27 | There were two scheduled stops on my journey : the first was a company that was going to hold my bulkier items in storage ( a firm that my now ex-landlord had told me about which had some spare space in a lock-up in a basement car park ) ; the second was of course the Palace Hotel where I was going to drop off everything else . |
| 28 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 29 | There was little conversation : nothing had happened in Dent that day worth the telling , and it was none of their business to ask where I had come from and where I was going . |
| 30 | The questions of who I was , where I had come from and where I was going struck them with confusion . |