Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was looking for space for something , I 've forgotten what it wa Oh I had a big spreadsheet |
| 2 | And I did n't want to have that 'cause I was looking for respect for me but also for my area of work and it was an absolutely deliberate act . |
| 3 | No I was looking at trees in er B and Q |
| 4 | I played along , saying I was acting on behalf of Boot-in Inc . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh hello , ’ said Mr Willis , with great presence of mind , ‘ I was calling on behalf of the Conservative Party … ‘ |
| 6 | ‘ I was chatting to Jack after lunch . ’ |
| 7 | For most of the 1970s while living in the Borders I was commuting to London by air for three nights a week to present late-night current affairs programmes — 24 Hours , Midweek , Tonight , Newsday . |
| 8 | For I was shrieking with laughter at some of the unintentional one-liners and an alien about as terrifying as E.T . |
| 9 | ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice . |
| 10 | ‘ I started playing guitar when I was fourteen , ’ says Rowland , ‘ and I was listening to people like Roxy Music and David Bowie . |
| 11 | I was commenting in response to the objector 's proof in this particular case . |
| 12 | And I would dare those of you who would look up the newspaper clippings of that occasion and challenge that view , because you would find a much different reading in those newspaper clips than what I learnt many years later , trudging round the island , Personally I thought that I was being particularly clever bombing a seaplane that was taking off , It was only when I was serving on Sylt in the fifties that I learned that this was in fact a tug ( or you might call it a barge , a sea-going barge ) on the end of 100 metres of line , that was being towed . |
| 13 | ‘ I was gasping for air in the final 20 minutes , but apart from some stiffness I feel fine , ’ declared the 23-year-old schemer . |
| 14 | I was living on adrenaline for the first couple of weeks . |
| 15 | I was living with Keren in a squat above the Sex Pistols rehearsal room in Denmark Street . ’ |
| 16 | Well I 've lived in quite a few places , I 've , I say , before I came here , I was at mother and baby Home , and before that I was living with friends in Liverpool , and before that I was in Nottingham at a bed and breakfast place , lodgings , and er |
| 17 | And then erm I was at home for a while , and then I was living with friends in Birmingham , and in , in between time I 've been to Leeds and London . |
| 18 | Thursday night I was living in dread of the choir . |
| 19 | In 1973 , I was living in Dublin in a teeny bedsit with three other women . |
| 20 | Anyway , I was living in Boston at the time , but I was in a studio in Oslo and saw a Lexicon there , noticed that the company was in Boston and said , ‘ Can you put it on the guitar and see what it sounds like ? ’ |
| 21 | I was thinking for instance in the context of Sri Lanka , where I was born , that there is n't a straight forward national liberation struggle , there are lots of problems such as militarism which the women 's movement has taken on in various ways and played a major part in combating . |
| 22 | As the house is of the Georgian period , I was thinking of oak as a possibility , but I would be most grateful if you could let me know what other types of wood are suitable , either hardwood or softwood , including some of the foreign hardwoods that are now available . |
| 23 | Amy at the stove , experimenting with coloured dyes ( 6,7,8,9 ) : ‘ For this print , I was thinking of patterns of light and shade created by strong sunlight . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Well , you know how people like to be together , even if they 're pretending to be in the wild , so I was thinking of groupings of four to six cabins per lot . ’ |
| 25 | Well I was thinking of things like witchcraft , which would seem a rather a luxury fringe subject , but some of the most fascinating research that 's been done recently in my period of early modern history has been showing how witchcraft erm was the second most important erm crime to come before the courts apart from theft in , in my period , and in exploring why witchcraft had this appeal you 're learning much more about the age . |
| 26 | I knew Derek really enjoyed our trips and was only kidding , but I was thinking of ways in which I could raise more money to pay my share . |
| 27 | I was thinking in terms of between thirty-five and forty-five . |
| 28 | ONE CHRISTMAS DAY , I stupidly thought that I was flying from London to Bangkok . |
| 29 | I was squealing with delight at the tricks his middle finger was playing when suddenly Captain leapt on us growling . |
| 30 | ‘ I was teaching at MexTech at the time . |