Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ I heard little else because now I was shouting my own piece about Christianity . |
| 2 | ‘ The first time it was shown on television , I was watching my own performance and seeing how far it was from what I had conceived . |
| 3 | ‘ I was picturing her face when I said I was seeing you this evening . ’ |
| 4 | I was creating my own mythology . ’ |
| 5 | I was feeding him some biscuits and then went to kick a ball . |
| 6 | I was work la last week and I erm I got ta scrub my nails after done everything anyway like every , like after I made the sandwiches , I scrub my nails after I 've been washing up , scrub my nails so I was scrubbing them all day Saturday , last week and it still did n't come out . |
| 7 | Schoolgirl fantasies were fulfilled when I was given my own dressing room and bathrobe . |
| 8 | I was thinking it another room bigger . |
| 9 | ‘ They became the rage and I was delivering them all day in the Rolls , ’ said Crawford . |
| 10 | " Aye , I was givin' 'er some hay . |
| 11 | Being something of a closet linguist , I was teaching myself some Arabic in my spare time . |
| 12 | I was reading it this morning . ’ |
| 13 | Did n't know she was getting it , I was getting it this morning . |
| 14 | I was telling my own age group about something worthwhile : bird life and conservation . |
| 15 | I was letting my own hair grow too . |
| 16 | Such as that I was trying to use the priesthood as an escape from my personal frustration , that I was dramatizing my own situation , that I was proud and vain , that my idea of Catholicism was up the creek . |
| 17 | I was happy that I was having my own baby but sometimes I used to cry for nothing and I was easily upset . |
| 18 | ‘ I was out with Annsley one evening and I was giving him some stick about not putting something back into the game , ’ said Armstrong . |
| 19 | ‘ I fear I was paying you little attention . |
| 20 | I was paying my own way , sleeping on the beach at night , leaving my backpack in a kibbutz during the day , and the research went pretty well . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ I was with him when the call came in to do the video so I was listening to the call , although I was minding my own business . |
| 22 | I was fighting my own terrors in public , but others wanted to do it more gently . |
| 23 | Not that I cared , for I was doing my own fuming . |
| 24 | Without warning , she suspended her scrutiny to locate a flea which was causing her some bother . |
| 25 | He tended to be rather naïve in his dealings with others ; outspokenly critical , to the point of rudeness , of his less gifted fellow-musicians — a trait which was to earn him many enemies ; deceitful on occasion ; and certainly arrogant , in an age when obsequiousness and servile flattery were necessary to ensure success . |
| 26 | Peter 's apostolate to the Jews was paralleled by Paul 's in the Gentile world , which was to have its own focus in the capital of the empire at Rome . |
| 27 | But all the time he himself was carrying his own torch for a lost love . |
| 28 | It did n't help that , intellectually , I knew that she was reliving her own feelings about the way in which a second child — me — had wrecked her marriage . |
| 29 | She was bringing them some papers and some photographs in a big brown envelope . |
| 30 | It was amazing really and even , she was eighty two when she died and even then she was knitting her own jumper suits . |