Example sentences of "i was [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Maybe that 's what I was thinking the big house was . |
| 32 | Before I knew where I was , I had been wagered a great deal of money that I could not do it , and shortly before midnight I was leaving the hallowed portals of Ronnie Scott 's Club . |
| 33 | I was passing the front door tonight ( bath ) and I said , well , thank you for a lovely evening , goodbye now . |
| 34 | I was just , I was hearing the other day that somebody had smoked sixty a day |
| 35 | At the north-western tip of the island I picked malotira , on the long empty golden beach of Phalasarna , thinking from its exotic perfume that I was gathering the famous dittany of Crete which grows nowhere else but on this island . |
| 36 | I was reading the other day th th you can check this out . |
| 37 | I was just glad in a way I was dressing the Prime Minister and not Mrs Lawson . |
| 38 | Even when I was coaching the national team in New Zealand I was coaching at clubs in Christchurch . |
| 39 | By now I was enjoying the hot , sunny weather , but , alas , time was running out , and the last few days were spent back on Mahe . |
| 40 | It was a bright , frosty day , and I was enjoying the fresh air and the exercise . |
| 41 | While I was getting the Irish Times yesterday I happen to see the back page of the Sun ; - ) where Fergies autobiog is being serialised . |
| 42 | I knew this , I was doing it I was getting the right answer ! |
| 43 | I was expecting the usual French style of service , with an ice-bucket and a carafe of chilled water , and two glasses containing a small amount of Pernod at the bottom . |
| 44 | But , erm all that time I was running the young wives ' and we used to hold a stall in the garden , at the garden party at the church , and w when you took your takings in , you know th the treasurer would say you know , who are you , you know and I used to say young wives ' and then one day I said well , you know we 're no longer young wives , you know we were getting old and I decided there and then I 'd had enough of young wives ' , you know and er , er because I , I said , I , I was secretary and I 'll close it down it , it erm the young wives ' closed down and er er it , it had actually closed down and this lady was marvellous this secretary of the Guild , who would kno known mother and she was a councillor , she come dashing down , you know you , you , th the young wives ' has closed and you know you 've got excuse . |
| 45 | I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place . |
| 46 | Yes at the moment another time I was n't going to buy anything from Chile , and er I was asking the young man who was is this from Chile , oh I do n't want them . |
| 47 | The dried egg and fried bread were less attractive than ever and the grey day had hardly got under way before I was approaching the forbidding facade of Regent Lodge . |
| 48 | I was rubbing the dusty ball of his hair against my cheek as I turned over papers on the desk . |
| 49 | " Do not stray from the path " , said a notice I saw in the Cheviots when I was walking the Pennine Way . |
| 50 | When I got home , a week later , wobbling about on crutches , I was to confront the grinding realities of being involved in a car crash . |
| 51 | All this time I was putting the finishing touches to our hero 's book . |
| 52 | ‘ I told you — I was casing the joint , ’ said Tim . |
| 53 | I was offered the wrong medicine twice . |
| 54 | As I was pulling the institutional door of his office shut behind me he looked up from the reading matter he had taken up again and said , ‘ And Ian — ’ |
| 55 | ‘ I was shutting the front door when I heard the phone ring . |
| 56 | ‘ As a cover , I had told everybody that I was remixing the original Abba songs . |
| 57 | I wished I had n't said ‘ England ’ since I was carrying the Irish passport , but Signe gave no sign of noticing the error . |
| 58 | Cottee admits : ‘ There were times when I felt I was carrying the whole world on my shoulders . ’ |
| 59 | Another unexpected and disturbing event , though of quite a different order , occurred one evening in 1973 when I was preparing the late night showing of 24 Hours . |
| 60 | And as I say , the middle one had a sling on his arm , so , as I was opening the outside door one of them says , well if you 've not got cigarettes , you better give me a tenner or I 'll thump you ! |