Example sentences of "[conj] i was [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Cambridge , NUPE put a picket around the Union building where I was taking part in a debate and the police wanted to take me in by a side entrance . |
| 2 | Although I was doing Shakespeare for A-level I had never seen any of his plays performed on stage . |
| 3 | ‘ Before that I was modelling clothes for some of the best fashion-houses in London — and in Paris too , sometimes . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I can not forget that I was crowned head of the United Kingdom ’ , said the Queen in her Silver Jubilee speech in May 1977 . |
| 5 | In fact , although there was a cloud hanging over my future , I found to my surprise that I was enjoying life in the present more than I had before . |
| 6 | I now realise that I was really teaching social passivity and conformity , academic snobbery and the naturalness of good healthy competition , and that I was using maths as an instrument for achieving these things . |
| 7 | It appeared on the day that I was answering questions on transport on the floor of the House and there was a question on the future of railway services on the order paper . |
| 8 | I dreamt of making an Olympic team when I was in high school , a rather far-fetched dream for a 4:36 miler , but that dream was part of what got me through all those hard times during the years that I was losing race after race in college . |
| 9 | He looked suddenly suspicious that I was making fun of him , which I was n't , and grabbed me to look down the front of my dress . |
| 10 | In order to keep an erection long enough to fake orgasm , I had to imagine that I was making love to Karen . |
| 11 | Second point : although you obviously have such a low opinion of me that it does n't strain your credulity to believe that I was making love to two women at once , one of them married , I ca n't believe that even you could see me in the role of toy-boy . |
| 12 | One was that all people knew about me was that I was making trouble about the caravan site and a lot of them assumed that because it was at the bottom of my own garden , I must naturally be on ‘ their side ’ , whatever my political colour : that is , I wanted the site disbanded . |
| 13 | We were now at a point of safety , half a mile from the village of El Ouata , so I was allowed access to supplies in the Land Rover . |
| 14 | ‘ We had time booked , songs were arranged in the studio and I was writing lyrics on the day they sang them . |
| 15 | Darren started going to a special school , but in ‘ 84 my drinking did start getting out of hand and I was pushing Darren from pillar to post . |
| 16 | And I was eating steak for the second time in less than fifteen hours . |
| 17 | So anyway , at Khabarovsk we were eating ice-cream — there were always ice-cream sellers on the platform — and I was taking pictures of David and sneaking pictures of the soldiers who were on the platform with us but , unfortunately , they caught us at it . |
| 18 | Pat Connolly was led away to incarceration and I was offered treatment for my facial injuries and an operation on my flattened nose . |
| 19 | When my elder son was born and I was having difficulty in breast-feeding him , my mother sympathised with me and told me that , just after I was born , she had had an abscess on one of her breasts and found feeding me something of an ordeal . |
| 20 | He had impotency fears and I was having trouble in analysis . |
| 21 | It was the first teaching situation I 'd been in , and I 'd got lots of energy and I was devising ways of getting classroom control and class management and all that kind of thing … |
| 22 | I began to wonder if I was creating profiles for murder . |
| 23 | I felt as if I was taking part in history and the results were spectacular . |
| 24 | The way I look at it is that if I was scoring goals for Juventus we might be conceding more at the other end because I have other responsibilities now . ’ |
| 25 | If I was spending £500-ish on amplification , I 'd be looking for good second-hand gear , and there 's loads of that about . |
| 26 | I do n't believe my being a Black lesbian was of any political significance until I was elected chairperson on an EOP platform . |
| 27 | I tapped my hooter like I was shooting ducks in a cracker barrel . |
| 28 | I had to laugh though cos I was talking chap at work and they 'd sent round this erm this form right , to fill in about your opinion about the company and everything . |
| 29 | Because I was born twin to Grainne … because the Royal Line must never divide … |
| 30 | The pepper pot idea first came about one lunchtime while I was having lunch with Chris Barry and Mervyn Pinfield . |