Example sentences of "i [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was clearly going to be on the phone for a long time . |
| 2 | ‘ I was just tryin' to be a help , ’ sniffed Granny Morkie . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I always thought I was just trying to be abstract , in some form or fashion , just trying to get something different . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I was just trying to be hard or something . |
| 5 | I was just trying to be funny , like Ben . |
| 6 | I was never going to be a replacement for his wife , just a diversion , and I hope that , if he thinks of me at all , it is with the same shiver of half-remembered pleasure with which I think of him . |
| 7 | Well , I was always going to be an artist and it was always assumed that I would leave South Africa and go to somewhere like Italy and study at an art school . |
| 8 | I thought I was doing what I , and I alone , wanted to do , but my pursuit of academic superiority shows that I was still striving to be the person my parents wanted me to be . |
| 9 | In the case of upshot , it is the illocutionary or perlocutionary force , what the speaker is trying to do with his or her words , which is made explicit , and this may be prefaced by utterances like : ‘ Are you trying to annoy me ? ’ or ‘ What 's the point of telling me this ? ’ or ‘ I was only trying to be friendly ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ I was only trying to be helpful . |
| 11 | Yeah that 's the numbers linked to the division , erm Cynthia I mean I was only going to be looking at N Y C C and C S S S funded staff , yeah ? |