Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exhibition was crowded and I felt that , really , this was for Hungarians , as though I were intruding on a private grief . |
| 2 | ‘ I was counting on a serious heart to heart with Charles 's CO . |
| 3 | as I was holding on a particular images and create and then become those energy |
| 4 | I felt as though I was riding on a pink cloud with all the tension and misery flowing from me in a joyful torrent . |
| 5 | I was based on a big estate where there were extensive herds of grazing cattle . |
| 6 | I was staying on a large country estate , taking part in a week 's music course . |
| 7 | I was seated on a hard sort of sofa covered with worn black velvet , and tea ( as in More Women than Men ) went ‘ through all its stages ’ . |
| 8 | One hot after noon I was cycling on a lonely road to a country house where I had two pupils when I heard a plane buzzing rather low over my head . |
| 9 | I was weaned on a regular diet of Hollywood fantasy at my local cinema , The Grand , in a remote , windswept North-east village during the war years and my passion for Snow White , Grumpy , Happy and Mickey has not dimmed with the passage of time . |
| 10 | In December I was interviewed on a dark evening at Trinity by a group of Fellows , one of whom wore enormous boots and all of them seemed amused by my belief that there were no good books on eighteenth-century English history . |
| 11 | Earlier I had felt as if I was being torn in two , but now the decision was made , I was floating on a warm tide of physical ease , as if I had just given birth . |
| 12 | At the same time I was working on a small English-Burmese dictionary with about 3,500 of the most common words likely to be needed by government workers going back into Burma when liberation should come . |
| 13 | I was working on a different magazine then . |
| 14 | I was working on a basic cable pattern , but now I 'm wondering if there are other clever cables to be made this way . |
| 15 | I was planning on an early night . |
| 16 | When I was standing on a cold windy Kop watching us play shite against the likes of Plymouth Argyle , Shez always seemed to make it bearable . |