Example sentences of "i was [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I was using it behind his back . |
| 2 | And then I was using it more or less daily for years … . |
| 3 | ‘ I knew it could n't be the murder weapon , ’ he gravely told Wickham , ‘ because I was using it on Friday evening , hours after MacQuillan was found dead . ’ |
| 4 | I knew too that that invitation was bound to come and I was dreading it . |
| 5 | In the dream , I was singing it in all me funny voices , from the squeaky one to the gruff one and it was a pile of bollocks . |
| 6 | I was singing it |
| 7 | I was singing it in , not in my feet I was going I was me going to do all the words |
| 8 | Oh no , I was wrestling it off to wash it in the end . |
| 9 | PS Stoke just won thier first game under Joe Jordan … so what ? well I was watching it on telly , had to come to work , & had to find something to do ! |
| 10 | Yeah and I was watching it on This Morning and what it is it 's because most things you 've got in your kitchen like myself are all tested on animals and they do n't label it |
| 11 | Darts was on again last night , I was watching it |
| 12 | and er I was watching it when it was raining the other day , you could see the rain dripping off the wood rather than soaking into it so it 's done something . |
| 13 | Yeah , I was watching it . |
| 14 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 15 | no , that 's a bad one , the er power supply to the machine , the lead it was , there was a break in the circuit and it kept going on and off , so actually I was switching it on right , it just was n't coming on , so she says oh use it by the battery cos its battery as well as electric |
| 16 | ‘ I was expectin' it , the way yer was both goin' on ; can hear it through the wall . ’ |
| 17 | Six years later she remembers , vividly , a match against Fiona Anderson in the Scottish Championship at North Berwick which was won by Gillian Stewart : " I had been listening to " The Mikado " before I set out and I was humming it in my head all the way round . |
| 18 | We 'd known that in the mountains and in due course I was to see it myself from the other side of the fence . |
| 19 | Cos I was ironing it you see |
| 20 | I was whirling it round and round — I was getting tireder and tireder and wondering how long I could go on … |
| 21 | I was ordering it when Becky told me , and then Becky and she said |
| 22 | He probably thought I was punching it because he had done the same thing . |
| 23 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 24 | Notice how this is beautifully covered with my fingerprints now which it would n't be if I was handling it properly . |
| 25 | I was n't meaning to suggest it was either good or bad I was to report it . |
| 26 | I was weathering the winter and believed that if there was anything in my lung , then at the very worst I was holding it at bay . |
| 27 | I was holding it lightly against the glass of the door at an angle where the steel-jacketed slugs would plough straight into the fat of his abdomen . |
| 28 | I was afraid the kidnappers would think I was holding it back . |
| 29 | I was wearing I had the , the stethoscope behind my neck and I took it off for something , I was holding it up to try and get a better |
| 30 | I was holding it in such an awkward way that fingers eventually protested . |