Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |
| 2 | And then er I were telling you about the er where the marshes was n't I . |
| 3 | Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that . |
| 4 | I like him , I was watching him on the telly the other day , I think he seemed nice . |
| 5 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 6 | ‘ I was watching you through the net curtains — how 's that for snooping ? |
| 7 | Well , I was watching you through the window . |
| 8 | ‘ I was watching you with the stopwatch . ’ |
| 9 | I was accompanying him in the show anyway and I think we just had the nerve . ’ |
| 10 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 11 | Or maybe , the other ends got hot while I was a-tapping them on the anvil . ’ |
| 12 | About once a week or fortnight I had to attend some quite high-powered meetings in London to which James came too , as I was feeding him at the time . |
| 13 | I was given it at the end of a stormy course on race relations given to staff at Hen don Police College . |
| 14 | While I was thinking it over the ‘ phone rang . |
| 15 | Poor love , ’ she smiled faintly , ‘ he was half asleep , and at first when he heard what I had to say he thought I was leaving him in the lurch after all . |
| 16 | ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best . |
| 18 | I was reading it in the paper I thought oh I wonder if is . |
| 19 | Oh , I was writing it from the board actually . |
| 20 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
| 21 | ‘ I was telling him about the Glory , and I said I 'd driven it over and what did he think — was he looking forward to driving it and all that — ’ She paused excitedly . |
| 22 | Coming back to the council last year , some time in May last year , and er I was telling them about the noise and the situation , at the time . |
| 23 | I was telling you about the Queen Mary . |
| 24 | Er well Mark remember I was telling you about the boss that the two there the other night they give er a , a wage rise |
| 25 | I was beating him in the storyline , but he was , in reality , desperate to win all the races . |
| 26 | I have to pay 80p for one piece of Vallis , Cabomba etc at any of the fish centres in this part of the world and £1.50 each if I was to buy them in the little pots . |
| 27 | So do I and I was just talking to her downstairs and I was asking her like the differences between here and the States , you know the boar cos she was in a boarding school before , and she was saying erm how you know just generally the people are nicer and the blokes talk to you not just because you 're cos they |
| 28 | I was asking you about the guy Adam 's been talking to this evening . ’ |
| 29 | When it was dry , I edged around the unpainted border bands with masking tape very carefully , because now I was applying it onto the painted surface . |
| 30 | I was hitting them on the head and they were all falling on the floor . |