Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] i was [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | probably ni or tomorrow I was gon na do that . |
| 2 | I do n't remember what the occasion was — maybe it was my first day at school , or maybe I was staying with my aunt for a few days … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But I loved it and I loved singing and so I was performing by the age of four . |
| 4 | The interval bell sounded , and soon I was waiting for Jock to introduce me , and striding on . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's just that you said I should speak to you — give you warning — if ever I was thinking of leaving . |
| 6 | My hand hurt just as much and now I was shivering with cold . |
| 7 | I feel like in Britain the kind of history that I came into as an eighteen year old was a women 's liberation movement whose context was anti-Vietnam , the counter culture , Vietnam solidarity , American radical feminism , irony of all ironies the Ford women 's strike , and here I was living with this Ford worker , domestic tyrant . |
| 8 | For once I was not travelling along a public road and here I was thinking about falling and having a broken ankle and nobody knowing to look for me . |
| 9 | And then I was coughing for ages then mum goes oh you , I go oh , I feel terrible ! |
| 10 | But when I looked down , I saw the board was all made of bones and wire ; and I screamed and you said , " Swim — everybody swim " ; and then I was looking for you everywhere and trying to drag you out of a hole in the bank . |
| 11 | And I thought blimey , he 's a mongol , you know , when you 're looking at them , and then I was looking at the nurses and waiting for everyone to say something , and nobody said nothing . |
| 12 | And then erm I was at home for a while , and then I was living with friends in Birmingham , and in , in between time I 've been to Leeds and London . |
| 13 | By the the time I was 28 I had achieved dad 's wish and then I was dabbling with point-to-pointers . |
| 14 | She told me to hang on a bit , and then I was talking to this David Kendrew bloke — the one on the programme — the one Mum 's always on about . |
| 15 | And then I was talking to somebody about this and they and they burst out laughing and said well we 've got a friend , a male friend a mate of mine he said and he loves walking . |
| 16 | I 'd never heard of work till that moment , and there I was thinking of myself dressed in trousers and sitting at a desk with a ledger . |
| 17 | And then I opened up on Saturday morning , first thing and there I was standing in the shop . |
| 18 | ‘ And there I was waiting for you , in such a state ever since Kukrit came back late from the airport and said he 'd missed you , ’ Jeremy replies , suggesting with automatic but irrelevant chivalry that they are lovers separated from their tryst with one another . |
| 19 | Instead I kept silent , but inside I was singing in a very loud voice . |
| 20 | But underneath I was battling like mad just to stay afloat . " |
| 21 | He said : ‘ I was absolutely flabbergasted , because here I was listening to a conversation between two of the most powerful men in the country . |
| 22 | Also while there I was working from eight in the morning till seven at night . |