Example sentences of "that i [was/were] [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 And if they somehow suspected that I was picking up something valuable , why would any of them try to kill me before the pick-up ?
2 Worse , probably , would be the shocked reaction of the wider world ( my mother , for instance ) to the news that I was bringing up my children on a combination of take-away junk food and microwave meals .
3 On my way back to the surgery I brooded on the fact that I was achieving absolutely nothing with my treatment .
4 But Stuart is so effervescent , so bloody méthode champenoise nowadays that I could have gone down on my knees to his wife and he would have accepted my explanation that I was tacking up her hem .
5 Is , it was my sweep that I was doing so I 'm keeping the money , nobody else can have it .
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