Example sentences of "[v-ing] that i [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noticing that I was not provided for , he slapped his right-side coat pocket and , diving in , produced an opened packet of Gauloise Bleu , from which loose container he took out a cigarette . |
| 2 | After checking that I was not talking to the media , I asked what the nature of her enquiry was , and she proceeded to furnish me with the facts . |
| 3 | Realising that I was now unrepresented in the 5 ft 11 inch society , I searched my soul , but had become insufficiently double-jointed to see round the back ! |
| 4 | After confirming that I was n't taking any medication , she gave me two small white pills with a glass of water and sat me down , explaining that my Mother had been seriously burned and the pills were to help me with the shock when I saw her . |
| 5 | The second I saw was an Alan Ayckbourn , considering that I was only six at the time and I did n't understand some of it I still was enthralled with the acting and enjoyed it almost as equally enough as the panto . |
| 6 | Now she is wishing that I was back at work . ’ |
| 7 | In fact , Mum had reprimanded me many times for being Sam 's lap-dog , saying that I was too much under my brother 's rotten influence . |
| 8 | I had a Morris 10 which went like a bird , and I thereupon conceived the wild idea of rescuing Eliot from London if the danger should seem acute — and assuming that I were still available — and settling him , however temporarily , in the village . |
| 9 | I felt sick when she praised the lead , knowing that I was n't really coping . |
| 10 | I 'll spend the rest of my life knowing that I was willingly used by a man who did n't love me . |
| 11 | He lay face down beside me , not knowing that I was now painfully aware that the threads which bound me to home and the inevitable marriage had snapped once and for all . |
| 12 | He seemed to know so much about fighting that I was very surprised when I knocked him down with my first hit , and then again with my second . |
| 13 | So it seemed better that you should go on thinking that I was just — ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I was also thinking that I was not feeling very well , I 'm tired , I do n't want to be here . |
| 15 | ‘ At nine miles I felt fine , but kept thinking that I was only one third of the way round the course . |
| 16 | ‘ I began to lose consciousness and felt that I was standing on the world 's edge aside of a high , dark space looking across it , thinking that I was about to enter into it . |
| 17 | On mentioning that I was not happy to pay for a second hour of parking , for the privilege of waiting for their delayed train , I was told ‘ That 's no problem . |
| 18 | I soon became bored , realizing that I was n't going to get much chance to compete for the club — my best time was 23.3 seconds for 200 metres — so I joined the second club with its headquarters at the track , London Irish , which was more intimate and not quite so awe-inspiring . |
| 19 | As it turned out , Donovan Reid won and I came second , missing the third individual place but feeling that I was in with a chance of making the relay team . |
| 20 | In his last note on the place he says , ‘ At Dunvegan I had tasted lotus and was in danger of forgetting that I was ever to depart . ’ |