Example sentences of "i was [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just remarking the other day , I think I brought one of the first Land Rovers to the borders from Edinburgh . |
| 2 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 3 | Exactly , I was just thinking the same thing . |
| 4 | I was just feeling the early morning sun as it warmed the beads of sweat that dripped down my two days ' stubble . |
| 5 | Hellen , Wally and Oscar were producing films all over Canada and while I was enjoying the hospitality of Shelly Films I was also enjoying the pleasant company of Hellen Semmens . |
| 6 | Penguin Island , I was reliably informed the other day , is the island where erm Batman 's |
| 7 | And in that moment I realized that by some deep-rooted instinct I was already doing the right thing . |
| 8 | ‘ I was actually remembering the first part ! |
| 9 | I was never to learn the full range of Mme Guérigny 's bigotry . |
| 10 | By looking at black sportsmen I had invited the accusation that I was unwittingly accepting the traditional stereotype of the black man physically endowed with the properties to excel in sports , but incapable of performing well in academic pursuits . |
| 11 | I was there to watch the British Mount Everest Medical Expedition selling themselves to potential sponsors . |
| 12 | By the end of the week I was still having the occasional fake nightmare , I would suddenly go very quiet and shivery every now and again , but I was eating more or less normally and could answer most questions quite happily . |
| 13 | I was now feeding the coarser Nutrafin fry food and 2 ml brineshrimp . |
| 14 | I was now approaching the eighth green , a plateau with four deep bunkers cut into the face and sides and a pronounced slope at the back if you overshot . |
| 15 | It must be I was only thinking the other day the number of bakers but er the number of small bakers that were in Caldmore there was the two brothers one was in Road and one was in Street there was on the corner of Street , where the Co-op have that place now that was they were all bread bakers , were bread bakers er a bit further down Street going towards Street was bakery , they were a bakers and confectioners in Street |
| 16 | ‘ I was fiercely aroused the whole time we were talking . |