Example sentences of "i was [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was nurturing this comforting thought when I turned into a large assembly room with numbered doors leading from it . |
| 2 | So I was nurturing this one in the greenhouse . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ When Boro played Peterborough United in the Rumbelows League Cup I was cheering on the lads . |
| 5 | I was going mad : my mum was swearing at me , I was swearing at her ; finally I just lost my temper and said . |
| 6 | ‘ By the end of the last act I was swearing that this was the most marvellous Coriolanus in every conceivable way that I should ever hope to see , ’ wrote T. C. Worsley in the Financial Times . |
| 7 | I was trundling out the obvious . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I was pretending to be another man , but losing my own heart . |
| 10 | She does n't use the top one it 's jammed with paint and I loosened the saddle on the other when I was pretending to have a piss . |
| 11 | He stopped working , had a look round to see if anyone was watching — I was pretending not to look at him — and then he held his head . |
| 12 | I was pretending |
| 13 | I goes what ? , oh do n't worry , I was pretending not to hear what she was saying cos she misses it after a while , thought |
| 14 | It was five-thirty in the morning , and when I finally got to sleep I was hating those birds . |
| 15 | ‘ I was hating the analyst . ’ |
| 16 | And all I could think of was the way that baby had felt in my arms , and inside I was hating God for doing this to me . ’ |
| 17 | I was cringing |
| 18 | Stockholm-based DJ Dr Alban — who has shot to No 4 with It 's My Life admits : ‘ I was drilling this guy 's tooth when all of a sudden blood started spurting everywhere . |
| 19 | ‘ Jock ’ Hilton Barber was not flying on this date , and saw what happened from the ground : ‘ I was swimming when a battle started overhead . |
| 20 | In a fitful sleep I dreamt I was swimming through drowned villages . |
| 21 | They could only see Blefuscu 's warships coming closer , as I was swimming and my head was occasionally under the water . |
| 22 | When I was swimming I went to change and I found a swimming costume . |
| 23 | And I said to him I 'm sorry I was swimming . |
| 24 | Partly , I was n't doing the work because I thought my tutor had decided I was a poof but , more importantly , I was dragging my feet because I was n't keen on the work itself . |
| 25 | And er I was dragging behind a few paces and the headmaster was watching out of his study window you see ? |
| 26 | He said ooh , he said there was some American students here last week and they were all swimming in there and the man came along with this thing and they bo they were all sat on the middle lo middle of there with their feet dangling in the water splashing away , he said I was dragging this down and this six footer came out , I said , and then they were he said , you 've never seen anybody run so fast in your life like they go |
| 27 | ‘ This result is exactly what I was looking for , ’ Prost said . |
| 28 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said , ‘ I was looking for something else . ’ |
| 29 | He must have sensed that I was looking at him , he suddenly glanced at me out of the corner of his eyes and , still cleaning the mess tin with his finger , he said quietly , ‘ Why are you staring at me like that , Piper ? |
| 30 | But I was not going for a bus ride , I was looking for the gents . |