Example sentences of "i was [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hilary was depressed at your long absence ; I was cheering her up with photographs of your sporting exploits , which hang , as you know , in the master bedroom . |
| 2 | When I was swimming I went to change and I found a swimming costume . |
| 3 | I said I was looking I said where 's grandma , I put that ne table there is that alright ? |
| 4 | oh I was looking you see |
| 5 | Even if I was using him , a time of my choosing , to wash away the guilt … |
| 6 | ‘ Never once , during our association , did they guess that I was using them to further my revenge against the Wolfkings . |
| 7 | The idea was I was using them as sub-headings originally but then people were kept y'know slowing d it 's erm very hard to work out whether what you actually want is a good detailed set of notes . |
| 8 | I was using them . |
| 9 | Anyway , I was using it behind his back . |
| 10 | And then I was using it more or less daily for years … . |
| 11 | ‘ I knew it could n't be the murder weapon , ’ he gravely told Wickham , ‘ because I was using it on Friday evening , hours after MacQuillan was found dead . ’ |
| 12 | I knew too that that invitation was bound to come and I was dreading it . |
| 13 | Fact that I was calling him a murderer had nothing to do with it . |
| 14 | Like that , I was shouting him . |
| 15 | He recalls , ‘ When I was sentenced I thought I 'd be killed straight away . |
| 16 | When I was sentenced I did n't even know what two years meant . |
| 17 | In the dream , I was singing it in all me funny voices , from the squeaky one to the gruff one and it was a pile of bollocks . |
| 18 | I was singing it |
| 19 | I was singing it in , not in my feet I was going I was me going to do all the words |
| 20 | BELOW Dawn and I used to watch a lot of television while I was training her , but she was always easily distracted — she 's obviously much more interested in what the photographer is doing . |
| 21 | While I was training her , I kept her weight at about 10½ ounces . |
| 22 | Fine er what we 're , what we 're saying to you basically is , right , and , and another thing you 're doing is proving that you 're capable of doing it , now if I was training you from cold , right , and you had n't done it |
| 23 | I met the company commander ; I told him I had brought up some grenades and barbed-wire ; I asked where I was to put them . |
| 24 | I assured him I was only on a romantic , misty-eyed mission , though secretly I was wishing I 'd sent the birthday card instead to Winston Place . |
| 25 | Already I was wishing I 'd never been to see Angy , even though I knew how much being estranged from his family had hurt him and it would mean a lot to him to get the ring back . ’ |
| 26 | Oh no , I was wrestling it off to wash it in the end . |
| 27 | Before I was hospitalised I would walk at breakneck pace for several hours each day , trying to convince myself and others that I was enjoying it . |
| 28 | I , I mean I went like this into dinner okay , and I suppose everyone was like what 's she doing in a skirt or whatever cos they were all like looking and then like half way when I was eating I could feel them all staring at me and laughing and Jim and that lot were laughing and I could see Charlie |
| 29 | Like , I suppose that way if I was hit I might stand a chance of only losing one arm or one leg . |
| 30 | He walked down the quay without looking back , but he must have known I was watching him for he stopped a few yards short of his car and very ostentatiously took the incriminating chart from his jacket pocket . |