Example sentences of "that i was [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I would dip blanket after blanket in boiling water , wring them out almost without realising that I was scalding myself , take off the old strips of saturated cloth , wrap the new ones round each leg and tuck them into the corners of affected muscles , but half the time not really knowing what I was doing . |
| 32 | ‘ I was n't aware that I was fighting you , ’ she said at last . |
| 33 | I told him at a funeral this afternoon that I was pulling him out of Saturday 's game . |
| 34 | I was happy that I was having my own baby but sometimes I used to cry for nothing and I was easily upset . |
| 35 | ‘ I 'ad ter spin the geezer a tale that I was usin' it ter move a poor family out o' the buildin 's where I live . ’ |
| 36 | Such as that I was trying to use the priesthood as an escape from my personal frustration , that I was dramatizing my own situation , that I was proud and vain , that my idea of Catholicism was up the creek . |
| 37 | So like when I said that she knew that I was teasing her when I said in , in that tone of voice . |
| 38 | With that she saw me off with an invitation to visit her the next day after school but that I was to tell my parents in case they were worried where I was . |
| 39 | I suddenly found that I was losing my powers at a time when I needed them most . |
| 40 | He said : ‘ I play basketball twice a week and I had four days ’ notice that I was to get my chance , so I had four days ' practice . |
| 41 | So after that I would never let him out to play , but then a social worker came to complain that I was keeping him in and away from other children . " |
| 42 | ‘ I got round them by selling to them the fact that I was doing what they wanted me to do which was to get out into the business world and make contacts . |
| 43 | I was afraid that I was doing something wrong . |
| 44 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 45 | I looked after my mother I was the youngest of our family , and I did n't consider that I was doing something unusual , it was my duty . |
| 46 | I had n't gone on the Pill because I did n't want to admit that I was doing something wrong , because mum had always brought me up that it was wrong before marriage . |
| 47 | My family was very very supportive my mum was very happy that I was doing something for myself later on in my life it will help me very much and my husband was very very good . |
| 48 | It was n't what I was doing that was turning her on but the fact that I was doing it there , doing it then , in front of her husband and her husband 's partner and her husband 's partner 's wife and one of her own colleagues . |
| 49 | ‘ I suddenly felt that I was doing it to a bunch of people that actually understood what Lear 's pain was about , whereas I do n't standing on the stage at the National Theatre ’ : Brian Cox 's concerns about audience reactions and the nature of the dramatic experience are echoed by others . |
| 50 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 51 | I would , I would have to be absolutely honest and that and er I would n't exclude myself from that particular er way of thinking because when they moved in , when you got a time for a job , erm for example there was one particular job that I was on erm and I thought that I was doing it reasonable accurately and rapidly , erm and they wanted to introduce a new fixture so that you know , I could do the whole series of faces on it . |
| 52 | She was jealous that I was to bear her husband 's son — I could not hate her for that . |
| 53 | And the thought that I was bedding his daughter … ’ |
| 54 | It arrived about two months after the news about my father , although it was only much later that I was told what was in it . |
| 55 | I thought it was rather a bad sign that I was told I could , as a family friend , go in at any time . |
| 56 | It was only when I went for my yearly check-up that I was told I had endometriosis . |
| 57 | When I did eventually tell her she was really embarrassed , and tried telling me that I was making it up ! |