Example sentences of "i was [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without noticing it , while I was looking the other way , I had become old ; so old that I was an ‘ old lady ’ , known as such at the village school . |
| 2 | I was looking the other day , when I was looking for some of these things . |
| 3 | I was looking the wrong way . |
| 4 | I was looking the wrong way . |
| 5 | I remember this fear quite distinctly as that of being swallowed up into some great emptiness : the struggle for individual identity , central to phenomenon of anorexia nervosa , had already begun , and already I was using the appropriate metaphor . |
| 6 | Suddenly , one of the organisers called my number , I had to take off my socks and shoes as you had to do the jump in bare feet and I had to go over to get weighed again on different scales to make sure I was using the correct cord ( they were very safety conscious about every aspect of the jump ) . |
| 7 | But I was dreading the French paper to which I had only given the dregs of my time as I had had so much else on my plate . |
| 8 | I was dreading the inevitable hitching to Ullapool . |
| 9 | ‘ I was acting the other times , yes . ’ |
| 10 | I was calling the L-shaped room home for the first time , and thinking of it as such . |
| 11 | I was calling the white bag . |
| 12 | I was chatting the other week to a chap called Peter Davenport . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh yes , I was watching the six o'clock news . |
| 14 | Mm , what , something I what I was watching the other night erm , what on earth was , something , it was nineteen forty seven that were , it was er , it was an old repeat |
| 15 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 16 | I 'm not ashamed to admit that I was encountering the vast majority of the fish on show for the first time . |
| 17 | ‘ First , may I say how glad I was to see the honourable gentleman in the Government lobby last night , ’ Lang said . |
| 18 | A harassed young intern assisted by a cool , pretty nurse ( called Ruth , from Stanmore ) told me that I was bucking the statistical trend by having three fingers smashed between the knuckle and the phalangeal joint . |
| 19 | But if I was to ask the same question throughout industry today the answer would be very different . |
| 20 | He did n't realize I was guying the whole idea . |
| 21 | And I was born the same day . |
| 22 | The trouble is , I ca n't for the life of me remember what I was wearing the last time I went to see Angy , or on the day she died . |
| 23 | I spent about seven weeks there and I felt great inside but it was like I was wearing the wrong slip cover . |
| 24 | I was digging the last row next to the gravel path when my father returned . |
| 25 | He himself would put the fear of God into the professors of Königsberg and Breslau ; I was to do the same thing in Danzig . |
| 26 | A few days later I was touring the African townships . |
| 27 | I have added a 40W actinic and a reflector as I did not think I was seeing the true colours of my fish . |
| 28 | Lucky me — I reckon I was given the best of both worlds . |
| 29 | Soon she took my visits for granted and I was given the spare key to let myself in the door . |
| 30 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |