Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Says Harrison : ‘ I was thrashing about in the water with all my clothes on and ended up being dragged down . |
| 32 | I was walking around with a camera and binoculars right on top of their nuclear silos . |
| 33 | As I was walking over to the piano I was thinking , ‘ Should I really be doing this ? ’ |
| 34 | I did all the usual stuff — I gave her some money and stuck her on a tube train to a night shelter , but while I was walking out of the tube station , I thought to myself , ‘ you complacent bitch ’ ’ you know . |
| 35 | One day , I was walking back to the house , and had my camera with me . |
| 36 | I was waiting out in the garden for you to come back . ’ |
| 37 | The scheme certainly helped me right at the beginning when I was starting up as a criminal lawyer . |
| 38 | There were times when I was starting in at the cattle that it stood between me and the road . |
| 39 | I recall listening to him tell it to visitors when I was a child , and then later , when I was starting out as a footman under his supervision . |
| 40 | ‘ I was driving back from a conference in Norwich , and I wanted to see the church in any case . |
| 41 | Well , it 's , it 's simple that if I got up at half past six , and took him up a cup of tea at quarter too seven , and when he was around at seven o'clock , I was grilling bacon and I was frying eggs , and I hope , I do n't know whether perhaps it 's my cold , but , I , I just used to feel terribly unwell after he 'd gone , for about two hours and my legs were so wobbly , I was sitting down on the sofa , I may go back yet to cooking him breakfast if I feel like it , but , the , I mean if I can say to these chaps that , there are times when I do n't feel like doing things , well , I reckon Dave that they are so glad to be in that house with the central heating , with the twenty four hour er , er a day water , and the comfort , there not going to argue . |
| 42 | It was just as I was sitting down in the living room with my cup of coffee that I realised I 'd left my bag on the train . |
| 43 | I was travelling up from the English coast on my way to London to arrange the final leg of my journey home . |
| 44 | I felt like a portly 60 year old man with a beard , and that I was shuffling down to the shops in my espadrilles like he does , with his horrible , ratty little dog . ’ |
| 45 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
| 46 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 47 | The time I went before that , I got erm , like a frostbitten thumb , because I was going up on the chair lift , and er , I dropped one of my gloves , and it was quite a cold day , so by the time I 'd got to the top , and skied all the way back down , and then down the road going back to try and find me gloves , because I had borrowed them from a friend , |
| 48 | ‘ I was going on about the relative merits of casseroling and roasting . |
| 49 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
| 50 | By the time I was eight-years-old I was going around with a prostitute . |
| 51 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 52 | And it 's seventy degrees out there in the winter , well I was going round in a T-shirt , they all thought I was mad . |
| 53 | ‘ Most of the trauma I was going through at the time is written into that film , ’ he admitted reflectively . |
| 54 | I went out to the powder-room and as I was going back into the restaurant somebody tapped me on the shoulder . |
| 55 | By not eating I was going back to the security of needing my family , not being relied upon but having someone to rely on instead . |
| 56 | When I arrived at MGM , I felt like I was going back to an enormous boarding school again . |
| 57 | And it was Alice , right , and as I was going out to the door , she said to Alice , Alice must have said to her , are we going tonight ? |
| 58 | Here I am eighteen years old , and in a great state of elation because I was going out with a boy . |
| 59 | Unlike Michelle in Eastenders , my situation was quite different as I was going out with the father of my son . |
| 60 | Pat rung up and wanted me to fetch the dressing table on Tuesday night I said yeah alright I 'll do Wednes but I forgot I was going out with the girls Wednesday so I went out Tuesday and she would n't let me have it , cos Tuesdays they 're not working in the kitchen |