Example sentences of "i was [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the dream , I was singing it in all me funny voices , from the squeaky one to the gruff one and it was a pile of bollocks . |
| 2 | Yeah and I was watching it on This Morning and what it is it 's because most things you 've got in your kitchen like myself are all tested on animals and they do n't label it |
| 3 | You do n't know how glad I was to see you in that little cottage talking to old Freitas . |
| 4 | I was holding it in such an awkward way that fingers eventually protested . |
| 5 | Yeah , you normally write them in a straight line but when , when they were numbers I was writing them under each other cos it was easier to add . |
| 6 | And it ended up I was buying it for less money than what I was paying monthly for rent . |
| 7 | Erm I 'm not , well I was boiling it for this |
| 8 | Anyway our Darren came in , and I 'm gon na forget Darren came to the caravan and I was telling him about these wet sheets and beds and the mirrors done and what I was doing there and Oh he said and about the mattress he said and I said to him mattress , it 's still the same mattress . |
| 9 | and I was telling them about that Indian or Asian doctor at the City Hospital in the Maternity unit . |
| 10 | Oh yeah I I was telling you about that song was n't I . |
| 11 | I erm oh I was telling you about those till shorts ! |
| 12 | if I was recording you at this precise moment ? |
| 13 | I was to meet him in later years , but I am sure that the reaction in the chapel of all those within earshot , and particularly of the School Chaplain himself , exactly mirrored ‘ The Guardsman who dropped his rifle on parade ’ and the man who lit his cigar before the Royal toast together with his great friend who ordered a double Scotch in the grand pump-room at Bath . |
| 14 | No I was pulling it through this , that 's what I was doing . |
| 15 | But now he was cuddling me and whispering in my ear with helpless pleading , " Hold me — hold me — " Suddenly I was hugging him with all my strength ; our bodies were strung tight together and we were kissing each other 's cheeks with little frantic kisses — we could n't bear to draw apart even enough to find each other 's lips . |
| 16 | I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’ |