Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was practically screaming with frustration . |
| 2 | I have n't got any with me , and I was just looking at graphs for someone else earlier . |
| 3 | I was just looking at vehicle operating cost savings . |
| 4 | In English I was I was just listening to music . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Oh right I I was just thinking of sort of trying to you know cos he 's in his second year now for the |
| 7 | Um I was just thinking about y'know |
| 8 | Gosh , is n't that funny Andy Mooney and I was just talking about Mickey Rooney ! |
| 9 | Oh is that I was just talking to man . |
| 10 | Well I was just talking to Jean about that today , I mean I we 've got ta keep on doing it but , I think that |
| 11 | ‘ I was just explaining to Michael here about your notes , ’ Simmons interjected , to her relief . |
| 12 | This is the great hall which is which is although it looks finished is actually by no means finished , I was just explaining to Mike we still need a go there , we still need a table there , we need all the windows to be done and we need three thousand pounds for that window . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I was just going to bingo . |
| 15 | ‘ I was just going to bed when the police came . |
| 16 | I was just going to bed , he said . |
| 17 | Yes , this , this actually , thank you Chairman , this actually is very much an example of , of what I was just saying about consultation . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | and I was just saying to Yvonne er I 'm rapidly running out of my physio allowance , you know , because of the amount that |
| 20 | I was just saying to Simon remember when I did , I did this , before these came out I did the Fab Four Rock and Roll Beatles |
| 21 | ‘ I was just saying to Sally , why do n't you come out with us on Saturday ? ’ |
| 22 | I was just saying to Malcolm how surprised I 'd been to see so many your men at Doreen 's funeral , but I shut up when the police arrived . |
| 23 | Oh well , that sounds like everybody else , cos I was just saying to Ann that Ian and erm Martin they 've had high temperatures and |
| 24 | ‘ I was just saying to Miss Fergusson how very beautiful it is . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ No , I was just wondering about Harriet . |
| 26 | I mean , before all you Outsiders came , I was just tinkering with things and I really did n't know anything about the world . ’ |
| 27 | And just to remind you what I was saying , if you 've just switched on , what I was just confirming with Colin er earlier , is that erm it 's slightly different in this competition to what we 've been accustomed to in the football league er this and last season , in as far as it 's not goals scored that 's important when you have the same number of points , it is goal difference . |
| 28 | The moralistic female I was particularly thinking of was George Eliot , because Nietzsche , the German writer , actually complained that she was a particularly moralistic female , but I was also thinking of people like Mrs Henry Wood and Amy Le Fevre and a few others like that . |
| 29 | I was also working for Visionhire and hating every minute of it . |
| 30 | I was probably reacting in part because leaving Genesis was a sad note . |