Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I was practically screaming with frustration .
2 I was just looking at vehicle operating cost savings .
3 In English I was I was just listening to music .
4 Yeah , that was like me , I mean like I 'd , I was n't bad like , cos all the time I was just wearing like polo necks or like shirts with high collars and stuff cos it was n't actually on my neck it was just like on my , this one .
5 Oh right I I was just thinking of sort of trying to you know cos he 's in his second year now for the
6 Um I was just thinking about y'know
7 Oh is that I was just talking to man .
8 Even now I am ashamed when I think of the night I ‘ let fly ’ to one of our best auxiliary nurses who had come to ask me to help when I was just going off duty .
9 I was just going to bingo .
10 I was just going to bed when the police came .
11 I was just going to bed , he said .
12 Yes , this , this actually , thank you Chairman , this actually is very much an example of , of what I was just saying about consultation .
13 afford , ca n't afford at the minute , I was just saying to dad Bri 's gon na get us some shopping on his cheque book , I tell you , did I tell you about his embarrassing moment ?
14 I was probably reacting in part because leaving Genesis was a sad note .
15 They had a point , I was forced to admit , since I was already suffering from frostbite in the toes .
16 I was actually thinking about suicide , ’ he confessed to Barbara .
17 I was grateful to him because I was really shaking with fear , so much so that poor Dawn could hardly sit up straight on my hand .
18 I 'm all dirty , I was really waiting for daddy to come back up .
19 I was still weeping with fright when Uncle Bill put me to bed .
20 I was still brimming with plangency , chockful of feeling , when I arrived back at the hotel .
21 I was only popping over chemist to get a bloody
22 Well I was only going to sleep Jo , I was n't doing anything , I 'm just tired .
23 I was only asking for confirmation of what I expected .
24 We broke windows accidentally , we were throwing erm in fact I was only talking about whip and top the other day , and erm er which was a a game we used to play .
25 I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners .
26 You were always getting into trouble then . "
27 Yes I mean th th th th the fact that you 've got a whole range of problems an an and you , you were bound to come up against those problems if you try and define Marxist in a strict sense , and therefore you , you were always seeking to sort of make .
28 It was not a problem that had ever occurred before , and although Ellie knew she was probably playing with fire she was intrigued to know how it would all turn out .
29 ‘ I do n't think so , she was just passing on gossip . ’
30 Yeah she had it , she was just going into theatre at the end of the programme , she was having it done for the fourth time
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