Example sentences of "and i was [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know when I went out to the maths thing I was waiting for , I was there and I was heard about these forgotten a calculator ! |
| 2 | I do , I like , do you think I could have a copy of anything you 've got to date because lying in my desk this morning is something I have to prepare a briefing note for my chairman and I was thinking about that recent one , but I could n't put my hand on it Robert , absolutely updated on exactly where we are . |
| 3 | I was thinking about Nour and Marie Claire , and I was thinking about Syl and Mrs Monro . |
| 4 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
| 5 | And I was reading about the conditions . |
| 6 | And I was asked about my interests , and naturally I began to talk about politics . |
| 7 | My marriage failed and I was doing about one job every six months — I was on the fringe of things . |
| 8 | ‘ Anyway , that night they put a night-light in my room , in case I had nightmares , but the shadows were even worse than the darkness , and so I just lay there , under the covers , quivering with fear thanks to these damn dragons , and I wished Ken was back from University because sometimes I was allowed to sleep in his room , and I wished I was allowed a torch in my room , but I was n't , and I was wondering about crying really loudly , because that would bring mum and dad in to see me , but then what did I say was wrong ? |
| 9 | We talking about this and I was saying about coming from construction I says I 've says I 've to go up the cut like |
| 10 | And I , and Ma , and I was saying about Ma , you know , Ma , happened to say Madge , you know , and er er , you know we said that th , that I were n't going out . |
| 11 | Bill : I was wondering recently what effect the AIDS hysteria has had outside the gay movement and I was talking about it a bit in a pub I use down in Sussex . |
| 12 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 13 | During my annual medical check-up in 1987 , Dr Dingle discovered a blood irregularity , but as I was fighting fit he said it was probably just a virus and I was to forget about it during my impending holiday and to see him on my return for a second blood test . |
| 14 | he were ever so good and I was told about all these |