Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was accompanying him in the show anyway and I think we just had the nerve . ’ |
| 2 | Poor love , ’ she smiled faintly , ‘ he was half asleep , and at first when he heard what I had to say he thought I was leaving him in the lurch after all . |
| 3 | I was reading it in the paper I thought oh I wonder if is . |
| 4 | He had no idea that I was prostituting myself in the cause of Jean-Claude 's success . |
| 5 | I was beating him in the storyline , but he was , in reality , desperate to win all the races . |
| 6 | I have to pay 80p for one piece of Vallis , Cabomba etc at any of the fish centres in this part of the world and £1.50 each if I was to buy them in the little pots . |
| 7 | I nearly forgot how old you are when I was putting you in the book . |
| 8 | However , one afternoon perhaps two weeks after our conversation in my pantry , I was doing something in the library when Miss Kenton came in and said : |