Example sentences of "i [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just making small talk and some of it was the most petty talk that I 've ever heard ! |
| 2 | I said I was n't going to be , and I was already doing scientific research with you . |
| 3 | I now realise that I was really teaching social passivity and conformity , academic snobbery and the naturalness of good healthy competition , and that I was using maths as an instrument for achieving these things . |
| 4 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 5 | I mean , I was using a couple of grams a day , so I was still feeling bad withdrawal effects even after that two-month period . |