Example sentences of "i [was/were] [v-ing] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him that if he did n't cut out the vicious behaviour , Brian and I were going to cut out the co-operation , we 'd stop eating . |
| 2 | I was looking to see where the cha children were ? |
| 3 | I was learning to shut out the daily discomforts , however , either by looking around , or by playing mental games . |
| 4 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 5 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 6 | I was beginning to have quite a good time , and might have imagined for myself a series of tragic scenes of truly poetic power and solemn grandeur , and was wondering how my dear and attractive wife would look in widow 's weeds , when this character started speaking on the radio , and totally ruined my train of thought . |
| 7 | I was expecting to discover just the radiation that Zeldovich and Starobinsky had predicted from rotating black holes . |
| 8 | Within two years of starting my apprenticeship I was having to do roughly a man 's work , but my wages were only half a crown a week . |
| 9 | In fact , together with several colleagues , I was endeavouring to set up an informal meeting with ministers to try and discuss this matter er when the haemophiliac 's representative decided to go to law for their own good reasons , because that made it more difficult for any negotiations to take place . |
| 10 | The person whom I was going to take over the job from said to me at the end of the meeting well what do you think of that meeting and I must admit I the answer and luckily somebody else instructed with some other business and I felt I got off the hook here but in fact that got dealt with very quickly and he came back to me and said well what did you think of the meeting and I had to say to him just one word , was the way I put it . |
| 11 | My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust . |
| 12 | Christmas fillers you see , so I , she , cos I 've , I 'm going to make a couple of fruit cakes , I said well I was going to bring in a couple of fruit cakes and said if you need them not , if not I said I 'll take them back I thought no way is Sue gon na eat them , eat cakes like she did last year , or year before |
| 13 | I was going to phone up the A T S tyre people just to find out |
| 14 | First thing next morning I was going to fire off a letter , I thought , when I heard something . |
| 15 | I told Mum I was going to make up a quarrel with Shirnette . |