Example sentences of "[conj] i was [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have never sought an honour in my life — I just did what I could for my home village where I was born and raised . |
| 2 | Eventually I went along to the British Association of Psychotherapists , where I was assessed and asked if I wanted to see a male or a female therapist . |
| 3 | I told him who I was and where I was staying and then forgot the whole incident . |
| 4 | ‘ I remember when I was in the middle of a presentation in the advertising agency where I was working and the phone went . |
| 5 | Since Dornie was now out of the question , I went on to the Kintail Lodge Hotel , where I was admitted and taken up to a single room which , mercifully , was furnished with an electric fire . |
| 6 | Lincoln had a ‘ dream start ’ , and although I was closing and closing I could n't make it . |
| 7 | Again on this very course a while back it was only three people in the group in the week that I was watching and the guy who was running the session had , had worked the equation wrongly on the rating or whatever and the other two , never seen him before in their lives were saying that 's wrong and he started getting really annoyed . |
| 8 | But not that I was looking or anything like that ! |
| 9 | But you see , I just went to the education officer and I say , he , he ran it , he , it , it was , it was his responsibility the Guild 's were and I went to him about a Guild matter and I said oh , erm how I mentioned that I was working and he said well where are you working ? |
| 10 | I half-expect to hear that I was mocked or stepped over , or raped and left to die . |
| 11 | I explained that I was driving and asked for directions . |
| 12 | As a teenager , I often felt impelled to imagine that I was running or flying with the wind in the dark . |
| 13 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 14 | Without noticing its onset I found that I was crying and I went on crying until I slept . |
| 15 | Once I was lost but now I 'm found |
| 16 | and I said and I was hesitating and I said I 'm sorry I said I feel a bit embarrassed he said for what reason and old Rose was with me well at door she said she knows me she said well she said if it will interest you what if I never . |
| 17 | This was not how I had imagined the conquering of my childhood dream peak , and I was muttering and tutting under my breath as I clambered up towards them . |
| 18 | And I was looking and they 'd got red , black in one window . |
| 19 | Erm and I was thinking or Desmond was thinking of a bell in your |
| 20 | It was my first baby and I was panicking and he said there was no need to panic ! |
| 21 | Finally , my father came and I was discharged and taken home . |
| 22 | Then Mum and Dad and Annie all said goodbye and I was crying and so was Annie . |
| 23 | And I was saying but I 'm not cos I mean like day weeks he goes yeah but you 're just as bad as all the rest of them , you would be and he would n't say anything , you know , he would n't even tell me that . |
| 24 | I du n no I I got the gist of what Lynne was saying and I was concentrating but maybe I was concentrating too hard because I was getting most of it right was n't I but it |
| 25 | I saw this familiar — too familiar — fact at a different angle , and I was charmed and haunted by it . |
| 26 | But I would if I ever got a job and I was working and I had to make a casserole or something . |
| 27 | But he gripped my arm and I was gagged and bound . |
| 28 | And this morning she jumped on my neck and I was sleeping and I woke up , you know what she does while she 's doing it ? |
| 29 | He looked at me uncertainly , fondling and patting his hair as usual , unsure if I was joking or not . |
| 30 | Remember the boys are at home and if I was to go and ask Martin he would immediately say yes . ’ |