Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we are n't a politically active family , I was discussing Prime Minister John Major 's plan for a classless society with my sister Lynn when my niece Natalie said : ‘ Will this mean we wo n't have to go to school any more ? ’ |
| 2 | It was my lunch hour and I was dressed classic BR Clerk Chic ( beer-stained jacket , tightly knotted skinny tie , crimplene shiny ass pants and shoes with animal tracks and a useful compass in the heel ) . |
| 3 | I was given two year option in the first place , so so |
| 4 | I saved on the knitted things by making all his little woollies myself and I was given six baby vests . |
| 5 | We knew the Germans were still sentimental about Christmas , and I was given several days leave . |
| 6 | I do n't remember what I was reading that Friday evening . |
| 7 | I was reading some gimcrack book about economics , full of those pictograms that fall half-way between diagrams and drawings , when I heard the thudding of a diesel engine running under the roar of the gale coming in off the sea and over the whirr of the fan heater that was marinading my feet . |
| 8 | Late last year I was getting terrible stomach pains . |
| 9 | I was getting some drawing prep once and what I was actually told to draw was a towel hanging over a chair . |
| 10 | Again I was expecting military style spick and span . |
| 11 | When I was cycling lovely summer afternoon , well er four i , about four o'clock and er there was three farmers round a big sign , in in there and tha that 's where I went up cycled . |
| 12 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 13 | On a recent visit to a day centre , where a large number of old people had regular baths , I was told that bath time was a time for confidences and chats . |
| 14 | And I just turned round cos I was making these trigger things , you know this cavity |
| 15 | This was a disappointment , since I had been striving even more to acquire expertise in Italian affairs , and I was doing some propaganda work for the BBC , some of which was ‘ beamed ’ to the Arab population of Libya . |
| 16 | I was standing outside Brigade H.Q when the reinforcements marched through the village . |