Example sentences of "[conj] i [was/were] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No need for him to know that I was watching at the window . |
| 2 | These birds come from America , so they are difficult to get hold of and I had the added problem that I was looking at the end of the breeding season . |
| 3 | All the circumstances of the last charge brought against me point to the probability that I was arrested at the urgent instance of the Home Office . |
| 4 | We went to this very flash restaurant and I was really nervous , you know the feeling — anyway blood was rushing , and I was looking at the menu — my French is pretty good — and I thought I 'd fancy a pork cutlet . |
| 5 | I was just checking here in from the book by and I was looking at the chapter here on Roses Rivetus and er and it was on the mission to Munster here that er Third Combat Mission once a day for three days ' running was to Munster it was this ill-fated mission that made the reputation as the bloody Hundredth and of course this is the one that he only came back from . |
| 6 | Campaign on a what do you call it and erm and funny enough I was reading the Campaign yesterday and I was looking at the er thing and they 've got a sale on have n't they ? |
| 7 | And I was looking at the drills , and |
| 8 | This guy went out with Lee next day , and I was standing at the back of the 9th green when Lee 's manager came running up to me and said , ‘ Willie , you 've got to take the bag — Lee 's fired the other guy . ’ |
| 9 | The crimps were of course very active and I was told at the time that they would be paid as much as two pounds for every man whom they recruited . |
| 10 | Imagination from other viewpoints depends on my having already perceived something analogous from the then present and my own , and is undernourished if I was distracted at the time by consideration of the future or of others . |
| 11 | taken off it , cos I was looking at the length of it when we were in France |
| 12 | It was just a very low part , there was a little shopping area just round there at the time er , a butcher 's shop and a greengrocer 's shop and a Post Office , Street was the Post Office on the corner , and then Street and Road which lead down into , Lane and just round oh just round there you see , but I was born at the last house in the Street almost at the bottom of Street . |
| 13 | It was somewhat similar with me ; the war was on , albeit far away , and I was missing it ; patriotism and duty did enter into the picture but I was chafing at the bit like Old Dobbin who could not bear to stay away from a fire ! |
| 14 | Erm I was n't quite certain of the wife 's P H I there was something about twelve months and she was getting a hundred and thirty pounds er I , I lost it because I was looking at the clock at the same , I must confess but erm |
| 15 | till we got to near the den and do that and we spent er a year and a half there and all the time we were watching this house being built , because I was working at the Corporation and the number of people of the Corporation from the tea boy cadet down came up to see this , this and that , was nobody 's business , mm , without , we enjoyed it , it was quite funny really it is |
| 16 | While I was gazing at the chamber a schoolgirl who was touring the gallery with her father came up and asked me how it worked . |
| 17 | The statement was unnecessary , since I was looking at the forward preceptor screens , which showed a silvery shimmer like visible white noise . |
| 18 | Since I was pipped at the post for the Periodical Publishers ' Association Columnist of the Year award by Maureen Lipman , star of stage and commercial , I thought I 'd better look up her column in She magazine to see how I might bring my stuff up to state-of-the-art standard . |
| 19 | As you know it , this is the last I 'm sure everyone 's aware it 's the last item on your agenda when I was looking at the agenda this item was before the fox hunting motion I thought well it 'd be nice to have a debate before the fox hunting motion because we would have er a full house of people who I 'm sure would be very interested to hear the discussion on V A T. As matter of fact I 'm sure they would w w would welcome the opportunity to have a de , a discussion , but it seems they have gone and I got , I got it wrong Chairman when you by taking the the the fox hunting motion it should really have , have held on till this time in the evening . |
| 20 | I was working at a hospital in the out-patients ' department recently and when I was leaving at the end of my shift one day , I saw the following message pinned on the notice board , obviously from an extremely irate patient : ‘ Time is a great healer . |
| 21 | I have , I did have experience with cheques and credit cards , but that was when I was working at the chemist , but now we do n't take cheques . |
| 22 | my legs , I suddenly realized when I was changing at the swimming pool , and thought oh sod it , who 's gon na notice , I mean , at half past seven , I really ca n't get that excited about it . |
| 23 | When I was waiting at the Connons the other night before you all so efficiently arrested me , I had occasion to use the phone-box almost opposite the house . |
| 24 | God , how I used to envy the Catholic girls going to the schools in Belfast when I was waiting at the bus stop like a fresh dog 's dinner to be carried off to Dothegirls Academy in me big grey interlocks with double gusset for the hockey stains . |