Example sentences of "but i [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I was involved . |
| 2 | For amplification I 've got a Marshall 50 from 1979 which is nice but I was hoping to update it soon . |
| 3 | I do n't know whether that will actually happen , because Guild really have the first option , but I was hoping there 'd be a way that we could cooperate and perhaps Eggle could do the British end of it . |
| 4 | Razor 's a tough guy but I was hoping he was n't hurt . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't want to seem rude , ’ she said , ‘ but I was hoping to travel on my own . |
| 6 | Just to be on the safe side I also set up a stick float and a bleak whip but I was hoping I would n't need them — so much for being positive . |
| 7 | But I was hoping it was off for good er but it did n't work out that way cos of the weather . |
| 8 | But I was hoping I would be , be better . |
| 9 | I had to repeat things again and again , hoping that something would sink in , but I was rewarded for my efforts with the satisfaction of knowing that they all passed their examinations at the end of the year . |
| 10 | Michael was after me to , but I was holding off . |
| 11 | Now he stood behind me , so that I could feel the warmth of his body , but I was facing the box hedge , so close to it that I could n't turn . |
| 12 | I had letters which started , ‘ We were travelling up the motorway from London to Glasgow and I heard you … ’ or ‘ I live in Devon but I was staying in Leicester when I heard you . |
| 13 | But I was staying inside , learning about what the world was really like , or , rather , what Pansy Fanshawe thought it was like . |
| 14 | ‘ We have battled well in recent games but I was heartened by some of our football in the midweek win over Grimsby Town . |
| 15 | ‘ I always fancied my chances of playing against Dublin and so it worked out , but I was taking nothing for granted . |
| 16 | I could n't see his face clearly in the firelight , but I was struck by an attitude of extreme fatigue . |
| 17 | But I was struck by just how proficient at handling babies and young children were people from all walks of life . |
| 18 | But I was struck , I was struck by the frame . |
| 19 | ‘ But I was speaking about the price of vegetables , ’ said Anwar . |
| 20 | ‘ But I was thinking about Steinmark . |
| 21 | But I was thinking , looking at them — ’ he gestured towards the tourists — ‘ seeing them in a group , it reminded me of a time in cadet school . |
| 22 | ‘ But I was thinking the best time to escape is when all the teachers are n't around to stop you . ’ |
| 23 | But I was thinking of the ones you see in cottages . |
| 24 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 25 | ‘ But I was thinking about how we used to sing together . ’ |
| 26 | I knew Derek really enjoyed our trips and was only kidding , but I was thinking of ways in which I could raise more money to pay my share . |
| 27 | No , but I was thinking of using this one here . |
| 28 | I even knew that if we talked about her past and all her life I might begin to like her , but I was thinking of a different countryside and different cattle and worrying about the oxen who ploughed the fields and turned the water wheels . |
| 29 | But I was thinking , I have had it already — the silence in the trees , the siren of the Athens boat , the black mouth of the shotgun barrel . |
| 30 | There was no emotion in his voice ; but I was thinking of Alison , of that last look she had given me . |