Example sentences of "i was [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ In particular , I was looking at the environmental regulations and how [ or even if ] they are enforced .
2 The statement was unnecessary , since I was looking at the forward preceptor screens , which showed a silvery shimmer like visible white noise .
3 I can see that perhaps if they want to have a er they may feel they need to stray into other boundaries but I did feel that when I read what Huntingdon district council proposed which was if you like , to completely re-drawing the electoral map for the entire county I was n't actually looking at something that was designed to deal with the interests of the citizens of Huntingdon district council , I was looking at the straightforward political proposal which would be far better to come from a political party than from a district council .
4 No I was looking at the other one .
5 Now I was looking at the other fella a strong comparison , I was mixing him up with I
6 Although she had never shown even the remotest sign of lameness I was looking at the worst case of hip dysplasia I had seen for some time .
7 I was trembling at the unexpected sight of him , and could not control my voice , so I approached in silence .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Finally I was enrolled at the Royal College of Physicians .
11 I did [ think of myself as a cabbage ] when I was living at the other place doing all that washing by hand …
12 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 .
13 All the circumstances of the last charge brought against me point to the probability that I was arrested at the urgent instance of the Home Office .
14 I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke .
15 ( I have to say I was n't in the room with him thought I was working at the Daily Mail at the time . )
16 I was working at the Open University as Pro-Vice-Chancellor in charge of student affairs .
17 So if I saw the mountain , outlined by the rising sun at dawn , I could say to myself that though it was Saturday morning here what I was witnessing at the same moment was dawn on Friday , the day before .
18 Now I was standing at the closed door listening to his absence .
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