Example sentences of "[coord] i was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah and I was watching it on This Morning and what it is it 's because most things you 've got in your kitchen like myself are all tested on animals and they do n't label it
2 Anyway our Darren came in , and I 'm gon na forget Darren came to the caravan and I was telling him about these wet sheets and beds and the mirrors done and what I was doing there and Oh he said and about the mattress he said and I said to him mattress , it 's still the same mattress .
3 and I was telling them about that Indian or Asian doctor at the City Hospital in the Maternity unit .
4 We had all heard rumours about the Legion 's paras , and I was holding myself to my vow made in the bathroom in Wales nearly ten years before .
5 Six years later she remembers , vividly , a match against Fiona Anderson in the Scottish Championship at North Berwick which was won by Gillian Stewart : " I had been listening to " The Mikado " before I set out and I was humming it in my head all the way round .
6 ‘ Me wages are in there and I was taking them to me ma .
7 but do n't get me wrong after a while I just gave up and I was getting them in bouts and I was getting through the Bonjela and the
8 So do I and I was just talking to her downstairs and I was asking her like the differences between here and the States , you know the boar cos she was in a boarding school before , and she was saying erm how you know just generally the people are nicer and the blokes talk to you not just because you 're cos they
9 When after I became a Christian I obeyed and was baptized , it was n't to make me a better person it was n't to make me er , someone who was , er more pious or more religious , or of having greater favour with God , it was done because he had commanded it in his word , and I was identifying myself with him .
10 And er and I was telling everyone I said , Oh I 'm going to and I was flinging everything over the you know .
11 ‘ I always fancied my chances of playing against Dublin and so it worked out , but I was taking nothing for granted .
12 ‘ I felt I did everything right , like the simple things of making the right contact , but I was striking it into the wind and it seemed to tail off at the last minute . ’
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