Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | And I was looking at the drills , and |
| 32 | While I was gazing at the chamber a schoolgirl who was touring the gallery with her father came up and asked me how it worked . |
| 33 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |
| 34 | No need for him to know that I was watching at the window . |
| 35 | ‘ I was lookin' at the pichers . ’ |
| 36 | I was trembling at the unexpected sight of him , and could not control my voice , so I approached in silence . |
| 37 | We were I was I was patrolling at the time , with me partner . |
| 38 | I was stopped at the horse-car entrance by a locked door and , in response to my repeated knocking , by a determined female who told me I was n't welcome . |
| 39 | It was somewhat similar with me ; the war was on , albeit far away , and I was missing it ; patriotism and duty did enter into the picture but I was chafing at the bit like Old Dobbin who could not bear to stay away from a fire ! |
| 40 | It was just a very low part , there was a little shopping area just round there at the time er , a butcher 's shop and a greengrocer 's shop and a Post Office , Street was the Post Office on the corner , and then Street and Road which lead down into , Lane and just round oh just round there you see , but I was born at the last house in the Street almost at the bottom of Street . |
| 41 | Since I was pipped at the post for the Periodical Publishers ' Association Columnist of the Year award by Maureen Lipman , star of stage and commercial , I thought I 'd better look up her column in She magazine to see how I might bring my stuff up to state-of-the-art standard . |
| 42 | I was drunk at the time , if you must know . |
| 43 | But for all that he plays no part in the ancestry of my colleague , on whose behalf I was alerted at the mention of his name . |
| 44 | Finally I was enrolled at the Royal College of Physicians . |
| 45 | I spect he was pretty angry about t tell him I was living at the house with Marie . |
| 46 | I did [ think of myself as a cabbage ] when I was living at the other place doing all that washing by hand … |
| 47 | I 'm sorry , I think I 've forgotten what I was thinking at the time , erm |
| 48 | I was met at the door by the commander of the bodyguard , who introduced me to the domestic staff — the cooks , the maids , the rest of the bodyguard and the gardener . |
| 49 | I was working at a hospital in the out-patients ' department recently and when I was leaving at the end of my shift one day , I saw the following message pinned on the notice board , obviously from an extremely irate patient : ‘ Time is a great healer . |
| 50 | Only I was passing at the time . |
| 51 | Whilst David was continuing his studies with me , I was teaching at the Dance Centre in Covent Garden , which is an agency . |
| 52 | I was dumbfounded at the sight of his shiny blue-black hair , his long-lashed blue eyes and his brown face . |
| 53 | This helps to structure the content of its programmes as well as its public image , and until the mid-1980s , Radio I was aiming at the 16–25 age group . |
| 54 | Later that evening , going on my farewell walk round Cuzco , I fought to be positive , talking to myself like a character in a novel I was reading at the time , David Copperfield 's aunt . |
| 55 | For three quarters of the race she was within the time for for another British mark , but as she explained afterwards : ‘ Two hard 50-metres just before meant I was lacking at the end . ’ |
| 56 | ‘ I was champing at the bit , but I knew I needed a break , ’ he says . |
| 57 | I was champing at the bit to investigate Stanford shopping precinct before my 2 p.m. hospital appointment with Dr Levy and his team , so Kenneth hastily finished his third helping and we walked the short distance to the precinct . |
| 58 | The notice of appeal sets out a number of grounds , but before dealing with the appeal on the merits , I was asked at the outset to rule on what the nature of an appeal from the justices under the Children Act 1989 is , whether it is an appeal in which fresh evidence could be called , that is a full rehearing in the sense that the Crown Court could hear appeals from the juvenile court under the old law . |
| 59 | ‘ I was rehearsing at the Ward Theatre , Kingston , singing ‘ Suspicious Minds ’ , Elvis ' song . |
| 60 | It was big windows facing the street and people looking in and at that time I was very , very recognizable because of the publicity I was having at the club . |