Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [v-ing] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd had some sailing instruction before on Lake Bala , in a larger Wayfarer which has room for two people and an instructor , but I found that I was tending to leave the thinking to my partner and the instructor , and just doing what I was told without knowing why . |
| 2 | As I approached it I reached out my talons to land and perhaps the prey I was holding obscured the view for I should have seen sooner what had been put on top of the post by Men . |
| 3 | I was hoping to get the chance to see the new Beethoven opera . |
| 4 | With a sigh he admitted , ‘ I was hoping to find the ring quickly . ’ |
| 5 | And it was right one evening , at an art college gig where I was helping lug the gear to the van . |
| 6 | I was struggling to grasp the aesthetics of it all . |
| 7 | ‘ I was intending to ask the committee for something towards my purchase . ’ |
| 8 | However , as a ‘ courageous ’ cut and sewer , as well as being a past owner of a Brother Electronic with garter carriage which casts off automatically , I decided that I would never go back to a latch tool cast off and that it was a waste of time in any case if I was intending to cut the fabric ! |
| 9 | I was trying to memorise the road . |
| 10 | I was trying to remember the name of that collar . |
| 11 | Such as that I was trying to use the priesthood as an escape from my personal frustration , that I was dramatizing my own situation , that I was proud and vain , that my idea of Catholicism was up the creek . |
| 12 | And the handout I 've got here which I could n't tie in just now when I was trying to do the deduction is because the rates are very slightly different . |
| 13 | ‘ I was trying to remove the guilt and shame of the bourgeoisie , ’ says Koons . |
| 14 | And now there was a chap on the phone last night he want to go to Valley and I was trying to tell the bloke who who he between doing pickets and trying to keep count and er . |
| 15 | I was trying to find the way back to my hotel , but I got hopelessly lost . ’ |
| 16 | I was trying to find the place we met her yesterday morning when I heard you shouting and the sounds of ambush so I rode to investigate . ’ |
| 17 | I was trying to keep the workforce happy and keep every body in a job . |
| 18 | Yeah , the way the ice formed on this car when I was trying to get the snow off off the windscreen and the ice and everything that was er , no I personally think it 's too cold . |
| 19 | I was trying to get the key out the aerial and it would n't come out . |
| 20 | There I was trying to get the encruster to stick . |
| 21 | I was trying to solve the mystery of that secret ‘ consignment ’ you and Salvo were talking about ! ’ |
| 22 | I explained that I was trying to understand the part tears play in our lives . |
| 23 | ‘ Rather than most people sitting waiting at airports — reading a book , desperately trying to get through the time , I was trying to capture the kind of hell they were going through . |
| 24 | ‘ Rather than most people sitting waiting at airports — reading a book , desperately trying to get through the time , I was trying to capture the kind of hell they were going through . |
| 25 | When I was getting to know the Fen drains years ago I would fish three or four venues in a day and walk miles and miles to find swims and try things out . |
| 26 | I felt I was beginning to lose the battle , and the diary for the remainder of the term is full of expressions of hatred for the school , interspersed with the repeated and heartfelt question , ‘ Why ca n't they leave me alone ? ’ |
| 27 | I was beginning to enjoy the game . |
| 28 | I was beginning to think the bell was broken . ’ |
| 29 | I was threatening to give the game away about the Durances … ’ |
| 30 | They expected me to live on supplementary benefit so I was having to work the street , trying to get my house together . |