Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was looking at the drills , and |
| 2 | And I thought blimey , he 's a mongol , you know , when you 're looking at them , and then I was looking at the nurses and waiting for everyone to say something , and nobody said nothing . |
| 3 | And when I showed him a list of names I had collected ( why , I do not know , I had some notion of an appeal or inquiry ) , he read : ‘ Lynch , Connally , Egan , Kelly … etc. ’ and then he looked at me and added , ‘ I was looking at the lists of those who died in the recent great victories of general Gough at Aliwal and Sobraon in India . |
| 4 | I was looking at the vectors on either side of him to see if he had any friends and when I came back he was gone . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I was lookin' at the pichers . ’ |
| 6 | When I was waiting at the Connons the other night before you all so efficiently arrested me , I had occasion to use the phone-box almost opposite the house . |
| 7 | Well I became aware of the University of Sussex when the Gardener Centre first opened I think , because at that time I was working at the Arts Council of Great Britain and it was erm an innovative scheme which attracted a great deal of national interest , and we were naturally invited down to have a look at it , both the design and the programme that was being planned for the opening season at that time . |