Example sentences of "i [was/were] [v-ing] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was listening to the two in the back working their way through a typical RAF ditty with the repetitive chorus of , ‘ There 's only one bar — BOO ! |
| 2 | I was listening to the same genial , slow voice with which the American gentleman had charmed many since his arrival and yet it now contained something unmistakably covert . |
| 3 | It was there all the time but I had turned my back upon it in a sense , so when I got converted , and of course I was listening to the Big Man 's comments on events and I recognized the validity of what he was saying . |
| 4 | When I said that I must look into the matter , I was referring to the franked envelope , not its contents . |
| 5 | I was referring to the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't realize it was the ‘ Queen of Casterbridge market ’ I was speaking to the other night . |
| 7 | I got to , when I was going to the little school I got told the little ones . |
| 8 | So then about a week later I was going to the open evening and he said oh ask him how he remembers . |
| 9 | He looked at my pityingly , no doubt thinking that I was succumbing to the English diseases , amateurism and laziness . |