Example sentences of "i [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day , soon after our night outside the castle , Princess Flavia and I were riding through the town when we saw a group of people dressed in black going to the church . |
| 2 | One day , while he and I were walking on the moors , he announced , ‘ Jane , I 'll be leaving in six weeks . ’ |
| 3 | Flora and I were walking through the palm grove , on mud paths between tiny squares of pale green barley . |
| 4 | If I 'd a , if I were walking down the street going Nigger ! sorry ! |
| 5 | MY WIFE and I were walking in the Lake District when I slipped and fell . |
| 6 | I dropped my right wing suddenly as if I were turning into the cloud and immediately swung over into a steep left hand turn . |
| 7 | Early fog had cleared and the airport manager and I were standing on the tarmac lining up the motorcade when my car phone rang . |
| 8 | We saw , we saw one or two others that were involved , that were involved in it , and er I were talking to the , one of the young producers that were there and er and I said if you 're short of some ac actors I said me and my mate will be actors you know , oh she said you 're dressed just right I 'll tell ya |
| 9 | Molly , Edith ( Harlow ) and I were talking about the Medauring in Germany started by Sofie Trappe , and I said we ought to form a group in England — Molly 's reaction was ‘ that 's fine Andy so long as I have nothing to do with the organisation ’ … so that year we formed the Studio Club . |
| 10 | Miss Maton died in 1923 and about a year later I remember that my friends and I were playing in the street when there was a sudden shout from a young man . |
| 11 | One Sunday afternoon , when Dana and I were sitting on the edge of the bed working over versions of various poems , the door , which we always left unlocked , suddenly burst open and a group of surly-looking students entered , led by a big bully who was not Spanish but Venezuelan . |
| 12 | One Saturday evening , when I had been apprenticed to Joe for four years , he and I were sitting in the pub , with some of the villagers , listening to Mr Wopsle . |
| 13 | One night my mother , my father and I were sitting in the dining room . |
| 14 | And I always think back to the er the time I think Edmund and I were sitting in the back garden here and deciding that we 'd go off and join the paratroopers |
| 15 | ‘ When Boro played Peterborough United in the Rumbelows League Cup I was cheering on the lads . |
| 16 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 17 | But I was not going for a bus ride , I was looking for the gents . |
| 18 | There were a lot of distractions , and I was looking for the . |
| 19 | I was looking for the perfect book and I found it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sorry , I was looking for the loo , ’ I said as casually as I could . |
| 21 | I vaguely remembered reminding mum last night that I was looking for the rest of Uncle Rory 's papers . |
| 22 | I always seem to , I think we , we were always at Stanford Hall that we must , it was a must that we have a good programme because if somebody comes and there 's nothing doing , they think well you know yo I , I , you see I suppose I 've got that orientated into Guild work but a friend of mine enticed me to go to er a club and erm it 's just simply for any age group , any sex male or female , but you must bereaved you know and erm she is a widow and I was widow , so I went but you see we , we sat round and you just , there was nothing organised and to me who had always been organised , I just felt so like a lost soul you know and er then one chappie put some records on and you cou and you could n't dance to them and I said oh , you know to me I thought wh you know but I do n't want to do it , I 've got enough to do but , I , I was straight away , I was looking for the organisation behind it you know . |
| 23 | Because that 's detail really , er , I was looking for the main parts . |
| 24 | I was looking for the Mr because I remembered I said I would be here in this session and I 'd forgotten . |
| 25 | ‘ I was looking for the bathroom , and I surprised him — it was an accident . |
| 26 | I was looking for the same thing yesterday ! |
| 27 | Yeah , I know I was looking for the erm oops ! |
| 28 | I actually first realised this at the second year , that when I was looking for the , the previous year , I noticed that in July the business went and I thought , because everybody 's gone on holiday . |
| 29 | I was looking for the twenty-five pounds . |
| 30 | At one time it was quite obvious that his main sponsor , Essex Petroleum , run by the flamboyant American ex-decorator and former Brussels bus-boy , David Thieme , was in some sort of dire trouble and that this trouble was bound to affect Team Lotus as it did ; Chapman knew I was looking into the complex affairs of Thieme and Thieme 's longstanding relations with Lotus . |