Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hello there , erm I was calling in to sort of object to the erm whole presentation of recent events in the , in the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | I appreciate that in that respect I was drifting out of order . |
| 3 | At the time I was commuting regularly between Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the USA and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in England . |
| 4 | I was trembling violently from head to foot . |
| 5 | In his account of the final stage , it is as if the unheard melody of which he had some intimation suddenly becomes audible and transposes all his experience into its terms : In my prayer I was reaching out to heaven with heartfelt longing when I became aware , in a way I can not explain , of a symphony of song , and in myself I sensed a corresponding harmony at once wholly delectable and heavenly , which persisted in my mind . |
| 6 | I was referring not to press reports , but to my conversation with the gentleman concerned . |
| 7 | and I was thinking where on earth is there a shop in that sells , sells things like that or do you have to go to a garage and I 'd forgotten that that fruit |
| 8 | Sgurr a' Mhaim was my 5Oth Munro , but as I hauled my dejected little body up the last few hundred feet , I was thinking only of rest , not triumph . |
| 9 | I was hoping not to mention this , but since raised it , we 'll have to . |
| 10 | And before I could resolve the problem I was struggling up in bed , in the pitch blackness , reaching for the shrilling telephone . |
| 11 | So I was trying not to talk . |
| 12 | Sometimes I tried to go as fast as I could , but it was easy to let the sail out and slow down if I felt I was getting out of control . |
| 13 | ‘ One day I was filling up with petrol when a chap stopped to say he was a member of the Ferrari Owners Club and used to have a car like mine , ’ says John . |
| 14 | He brought himself- and me , for I was brimming over with pity for him , always damnable pity — to the edge of tears . |
| 15 | ‘ I was running out of time to do anything else , ’ said Ms Hinchliffe , who has heard the safety bumps could be in place by spring . |
| 16 | I told him I was cutting down on lunch . |
| 17 | I remember leaving a ledge to abseil down Scafell 's East Buttress once only to realise I was falling out of control ; I had forgotten to clip my figure of eight descendeur into my harness . |
| 18 | ‘ I was walking home from school and a masked man grabbed me and hauled me into a car . |
| 19 | I had the strange feeling I was driving back in time , groping my way into a world of Inca and Chimú people , a world of great empires that built roads and temples and forts of mud on the coast and of cut stone in the Andes , stone that was dove-tailed to resist the trembling of its foundations when the earth quaked . |
| 20 | After a year or two I was nipping out at lunchtime to pick up a new skirt for the office party , calling at the dry cleaners , handing in the photos to be developed and meeting friends for lunch with the best of them . |
| 21 | I WAS travelling home from work and I saw some of the events posters referred to in a recent Echo article . |
| 22 | I said I could n't stop the night because I was going away on holiday early the next morning . |
| 23 | ‘ As I was going off at half-time , the lad who tackled me came up and said ‘ I 'm sorry , but it was only a little tap ’ . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't know I was going out to dinner , ’ said Daisy defensively . |
| 25 | No okay because it 's as I was saying usually between sort of round about the middle of the day there 's people knocking on the door all the time so if you can sort of get sort of earlier or later it 's we 're likely to have a y'know half an hour when I can show you to do S P S S on it . |
| 26 | And since I was coming in to town she asked me to get some more . |
| 27 | I du n no I just , I was coming in at dinner time and there was a , a double decker bus with all its front smashed in , the wall fell over |
| 28 | While he was fitting it , while I was coming out of door to stop my test to start |
| 29 | On that particular day I I was coming home from work and it were quarter to nine , I 'd just finished work . |
| 30 | I was coming home from school , smoking , right . |