Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were looking at that one |
| 2 | I apprehend however that it would be disappointing to you — I ca n't think why — if I were to stop at this point . |
| 3 | then I was looking at all the garden stuff , and and I thought well , start by the , and I thought I 'm doing a Joey ! |
| 4 | Yeah , I was looking at that myself yesterday actually and er if I include three , three Trident staff , erm there are thirty five individuals |
| 5 | from you and , and I was looking at that and ticking boxes and I was , I was almost not listening to what you were saying at times . |
| 6 | Ey I was looking at that one . |
| 7 | I was looking at that bloke in the Metro going fuck me |
| 8 | Yes , I , I was looking at that one just now . |
| 9 | I was looking at back pages of the tabloids this lunchtime and noticed that Steve Coppell is the favourite now . |
| 10 | No wonder I like things I was looking at these tights , yeah , it 's just one pair , and they were about eight pounds |
| 11 | Er I was looking at these and er you get , you know , with the er a set of free |
| 12 | I was looking at some last night and they had erm privately owned cottages or |
| 13 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 14 | I was looking at this , and not at where I was putting my feet . |
| 15 | erm when I was looking at this , this picture of the , of the Brettan Girls , I erm , I was really particularly struck by the bo , the mild head of one of the dancers and the fact that she was rubbing her , her heal , erm and it gave me a voice for , for this poem , I was also drawn by the dismissal , there 's a goose in the painting , there 's four , four geese and one of them is dismissing the , the , the winner outright and erm I found his look very , very interesting and , and I could n't help but compare the lies of these four dancers with those within erm from the later period as the eye that , that , that Gaugin painted later on . |
| 16 | I in fact I 've just been shown a different copy of this , Gwen has just shown me a different copy and the colour 's is totally different , its a very , very poor erm print and , when I was looking at this through my book , the background was very strange and I felt that almost had been painted by a totally different artist , but having seen Gwin 's , er Gwen 's |
| 17 | ‘ I was looking at this . ’ |
| 18 | Well what I was looking at this afternoon was your radiator comes through the floor . |
| 19 | I was looking at this one with the |
| 20 | I was looking at this . |
| 21 | It was no accident , and I knew I was looking at several hundred pounds ' worth of damage . |
| 22 | I was timed at 20.4 seconds . |
| 23 | I refused to have a mastectomy and I see now in terms of theory , that I was stagemanaged at various points on the production line , into trying to turn me into a well-behaved patient by traumatising me by saying ‘ If you do n't do what we tell you … ’ or ‘ You 're being very naughty ’ or ‘ You 're being hysterical ’ , or ‘ We have n't got time to deal with all these questions , we 'd never get round ’ , and so on . |
| 24 | Somebody like me , if I was stood at that table , I mean okay if you 've got kids coming in , but if you get adults coming in , I would n't be able to answer questions , I do n't know enough about the product . |
| 25 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 26 | ‘ I was screaming at that critic who admires The White Hotel . |
| 27 | It arose because of my meeting George Wigg in the army , whom I had encountered when I was based at Southern Command headquarters and he was at the same headquarters as a Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of army education , where he had already established a reputation for ruthless eccentricity . |
| 28 | I was dazed at first — numb with shock . |
| 29 | Her auntie was in , but I was to go at any time for the telephone … |
| 30 | I think I was asked at one stage , and I said ‘ No , not in my lifetime . ’ |