Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't have the most stamina in the world , I was called a lazy player but I could have played till midnight . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was looking the other day , when I was looking for some of these things . |
| 4 | I was looking the wrong way . |
| 5 | I was looking the wrong way . |
| 6 | The ribber tucked stitches because I was using a different colour — dyes can alter the tension quite considerably . |
| 7 | ‘ When I was working in Bishopsgate I was using a different method , ’ Dexter explained . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I was dreading the inevitable hitching to Ullapool . |
| 12 | I was calling the L-shaped room home for the first time , and thinking of it as such . |
| 13 | I was calling the white bag . |
| 14 | Then I went to work in a five and ten , and gradually worked my way up until I was managing a general store . |
| 15 | I was eating a Milky Way and it collapsed . |
| 16 | I was chatting the other week to a chap called Peter Davenport . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 19 | I 'm not ashamed to admit that I was encountering the vast majority of the fish on show for the first time . |
| 20 | His lordship was clearly enchanted by the whole business , Charlie was wearing the superior smile which always accompanied his demonstrations of lingual dexterity , and as for myself I was experiencing a mounting euphoria . |
| 21 | Had it been the other way round , and I was experiencing an Anglican church for the first time , the shock might have been even greater . |
| 22 | ‘ First , may I say how glad I was to see the honourable gentleman in the Government lobby last night , ’ Lang said . |
| 23 | I was fishing a lovely pool , at Flemington , and saw Father park the car . |
| 24 | But I have never forgotten advice that my research adviser gave me the first time that I was pursuing a dead end : ‘ It is important to recognise when to quit . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | For these services , and following a series of travel talks which I wrote and broadcast in the autumn of 1929 , I was made an Honorary Member of the M.J.A.R.A. , and appointed to the executive committee . |
| 27 | But if I was to ask the same question throughout industry today the answer would be very different . |
| 28 | He did n't realize I was guying the whole idea . |
| 29 | Every day I was sent a secret report by the Chief of Police , and the next afternoon I was playing cards with Fritz when Sapt brought it in . |
| 30 | And I was born the same day . |