Example sentences of "i was [adv] [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In answer to my office colleagues who saw me manhandling a hopper-shaped device into my car boot the other week : no , I was not setting up a home distillery , merely preparing to field-test a pond filter . |
| 2 | For once I was not travelling along a public road and here I was thinking about falling and having a broken ankle and nobody knowing to look for me . |
| 3 | But I 'd let my gaze slip back down to the wonderfully out thrust cloth over Sergia 's chest , so I was n't picking up every detail . |
| 4 | I was just dishing up the ravioli and he had n't even had time to take his helmet off when Nutty stormed in , drunk as a fiddler . |
| 5 | I was just wondering when the right hon. and learned Gentleman was going to tell the House how his Government intend to get out of the recession that they have created . |
| 6 | ‘ I was just clearing up a few points with Dr Blake . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't know where he is , I 'll smash his head in when we get home , taking care to use the rolling-pin , then I can tell the judge I was just rolling out the sausage plait when he took me unawares . |
| 8 | I was merely pointing out the underlying logic of this course . |
| 9 | I could n't get a knee up to break its back , either , because I was almost slipping down the slope as it was , and I could n't possibly get any purchase on that surface with only one leg . |
| 10 | By the time I got to the end of the course , I was still picking up the pieces . |
| 11 | I was still wearing out the regulation Docs and the thick black jeans . |
| 12 | I was still gagging up the last few dregs when somebody punched me on the cheek , sending the other side of my head banging against the metal wall of the shelter . |
| 13 | like , you know what I was like , all through school and me A levels I was still going down every day and everything |
| 14 | ABBERLEY : I was only trying out the idea . |
| 15 | At first , I was only going out a coupla days a week . |
| 16 | I was once chuntering down a slope in the peaty Mount Keen country above the Angus glens and leapt off the top of an eroded peat hag . |