Example sentences of "[art] [noun] i [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , convincing myself the pebbles I was climbing on would n't pull out did take a little time . |
| 2 | I was sitting there waiting for the grub to show when Martin Amis came through the open door — you know , the writer I was chatting to in the pub the other night . |
| 3 | As I left the cinema I was seized in an irresistible spasm of shivering . |
| 4 | During the afternoon I was given my answer . |
| 5 | The debt counsellor said that as long as I paid all the money I was getting from Social Security for the house , they could n't take it away from us . |
| 6 | The money I was going to save on rent over the next month could be put towards a deposit on something — always assuming the Department of Employment did eventually pay me my due — and then I would be able to start again . |
| 7 | Shortly after the case I was walking down the street and a policeman went past , laughed sneeringly and said , ‘ Got you , did n't we ? ’ |
| 8 | In his memoirs , O'Neill offers an unconvincing explanation for this major concession ; ‘ I was fully aware of the advantage I was giving the Republicans as all the votes would take place well within the new president 's honeymoon period . |
| 9 | ‘ Katherine 's sister , a pleasant , sensible woman , said to the priest , ‘ This is the wrong grave , ’ and the priest said , ‘ That 's the grave I was told to open , ’ at which stage he started the funeral service and Helen said ‘ Stop ! |
| 10 | see if you can find out who 's spending money down that area , and then a occasionally , not , not too often , jobs that he 's fell back on and dropped , I 've been able to get a little start on , and very foolishly I used to tell him sometimes of the progress I was making that was where I made a mistake . |
| 11 | One Croat student said : ‘ On the day of the referendum I was woken up very early in the morning . |
| 12 | For a long time I did not know whether the notes I was accumulating would be published one day , but that did not deter me . |
| 13 | ‘ By the hour I was getting reports coming through to me that the princess wanted to leave the Royal Family . |
| 14 | Within the hour I was feeling better and ready to tackle the billeting office . |
| 15 | Yeah , but they would n't pay me for the hour I was sitting there doing nothing you see |
| 16 | T. B. I was about to lock a fellow up at ten to the hour I was going off at . |
| 17 | The day before the election I was treated to an unsolicited political speech on behalf of the Conservative Party . |
| 18 | When I queried the decision I was told that it had been taken at the very highest level , as a result of information not available to me . ’ |
| 19 | Since there was no picture with June 's letter I was not aware that I would end up with the cable I was looking for . |
| 20 | Had I read the brochure carefully I would have realised that the experience I was heading for was anything but tedious ! |
| 21 | I waved aside her gratitude , being much more keenly preoccupied by the difficulty I was having in making myself stand upright without hanging on to something . |
| 22 | No one of the reasons I was ringing er I have actually er tried the old Beauj' this year . |
| 23 | When I was asked to speak at my farewell party I said that I felt a Ghanaian could have done my job and that was one of the reasons I was leaving . |
| 24 | Yes erm during the h the Probably one of the reasons I was set on to start with , was the tremendous amount of house building . |
| 25 | In a recent telephone conversation with the CAA I was connected with the department that allocates frequencies for such beacons . |
| 26 | The fact that the ordnance survey map of Ben Lawers proudly declared a Visitor Centre at the base left me no choice in the route I was to take to the top . |
| 27 | All along the route I was protesting tearfully . |
| 28 | And in spite of all the inducements I was offered to stay . ’ |
| 29 | That 's the story I was thinking you were doing it today erm it 's called the green knight , but he has a name does n't he ? |
| 30 | Indeed the BBC does send urgent tapes in taxis and you are supposed to avoid tube trains but the story I was told gave a different explanation . |