Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few days after she started school , I was meeting Shanti at the school gate and she ran out calling , ‘ Mummy . ’ |
| 2 | When I was taught chemistry at Regent 's Street Polytechnic in the later 1930s , we 16-year-olds were treated as adults , not incompetents , and were expected to achieve titrations accurate to 1 per cent or less from the moment we began quantitative analysis : for were we not addressed by our splendid lecturers as ‘ Mr ’ ? |
| 3 | And er it developed from there that er I was appointed collector at collecting the money and er |
| 4 | ‘ I was taking exams at the end of my second year studying architecture at Liverpool University . ’ |
| 5 | I can only really remember one occasion when my husband knew that I was I was taking Pills at the time , I think I took about twenty eight in one night . |
| 6 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 7 | I was throwing water at the English boy and his friend and they were yelling , ‘ She 's crazy . |
| 8 | ‘ But I only stuck that for a couple of weeks , ’ he says , ‘ for I was playing guitar at a party one night in Cleveland , Ohio , and he said there were easier ways of making money out there than working the building sites . |
| 9 | After a touch-and-go I was handed control at 200 knots in a typically military 75-degree banked turn onto downwind . |
| 10 | By 2.30 I was having lunch at the wheel of Armstrong , parked on the edge of the pavement in Gresham Street about sixty feet from the Prior , Keen , Baldwin entrance . |
| 11 | E. Dewell , 7 Church Drive , St Andrews Road , Bishop Auckland : I was having lunch at my parents ' home when my father-in-law , Frederick Dewell , telephoned me with the news . |
| 12 | I had to laugh though cos I was talking chap at work and they 'd sent round this erm this form right , to fill in about your opinion about the company and everything . |
| 13 | I was gnashing mine at some news from France , received just after another example of the present service from British Telecom . |
| 14 | I was offered work at the opera-house in Ulm immediately afterwards . |
| 15 | ‘ I was studying maths at Cambridge University and wondering why none of my friends wanted to be in a glam rock group with me . |
| 16 | I was feeling disgust at myself . |
| 17 | When I was making runs at Leeds Graham Gooch came up and asked me how on earth I was batting so well on that pitch . |
| 18 | By the time my father could sit down with me in a pub , slightly drunk , tell me and my friends about Real Life , crack a joke about a Pakistani that silenced a whole table once , and talk about the farm labourer 's — his grandfather 's — journey up from Eye in Suffolk working on the building of the Great North Western Railway to Rawtenstall on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border , I was doing history at Sussex , and knew more than he did about the date and timing of journeys like that . |
| 19 | I was eyeballing distances at that time , and had no real idea how far Roberto had to clear the out-of-bounds and a wee bank that ran round the hole , but we had a strong breeze behind us going from right to left . |
| 20 | I do n't think anyone but me was taking notes at this stage of the proceedings . |