Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was nurturing this comforting thought when I turned into a large assembly room with numbered doors leading from it . |
| 2 | So I was nurturing this one in the greenhouse . |
| 3 | I knew the answer before I was recalled twenty minutes later , and Dr Barton pronounced judgment . |
| 4 | It was five-thirty in the morning , and when I finally got to sleep I was hating those birds . |
| 5 | Stockholm-based DJ Dr Alban — who has shot to No 4 with It 's My Life admits : ‘ I was drilling this guy 's tooth when all of a sudden blood started spurting everywhere . |
| 6 | He said ooh , he said there was some American students here last week and they were all swimming in there and the man came along with this thing and they bo they were all sat on the middle lo middle of there with their feet dangling in the water splashing away , he said I was dragging this down and this six footer came out , I said , and then they were he said , you 've never seen anybody run so fast in your life like they go |
| 7 | Said I was to take extra care to keep your ears warm , specially with this wind . |
| 8 | Mark Raggett , a businessman spearheading the effort , said : ‘ If I was to take some of these materials and technologies back to the Soviet Union , I would probably be breaking the law . ’ |
| 9 | She saw that I was looking pale and vacant and told me to sit down . |
| 10 | I could also see the colour of paint I was using due to the pearly-white bristles . |
| 11 | I was using regular for about two years after that until I was sent down . |
| 12 | I was using stiffer rods and he was using softer ones . |
| 13 | So for instance if my backup window is an hour and that 's how long it take me to backup my database today , if had the backup server and I was using one device it took an hour , if I used two it would learn one dialect of S Q L. as |
| 14 | Cos I was using that issue at that time , but we always make the proviso that if things change , you may have to alter your mind about where your money 's placed . |
| 15 | I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques . |
| 16 | I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques . |
| 17 | The point of the story is that when I was using softer rods and he favoured stiffer ones we both caught , relatively speaking , no fewer fish than we do today . |
| 18 | No , I was using some , I was washing with a mouthwash in the morning . |
| 19 | I was singing little Hareton to sleep when Catherine came in . |
| 20 | Training hurt and it was always a battle to force myself out , but after six months I was managing sixty miles a week and sometimes doing fifteen miles non-stop in a hundred minutes . |
| 21 | Then he said , ‘ If I was to advertise this job how likely would you be to apply for it ? ’ , and suddenly the hairs prickled on the back of my neck , because I knew he was serious . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | ‘ I was eating some gnocchi with this Italian — I did n't say nookey . ’ |
| 24 | By now I was eating some of the bread from Reggane . |
| 25 | Oh I was bored to tears and I was eating whole time |
| 26 | I was chatting all about me units Ange |
| 27 | ‘ I was stripped naked and suspended on a crucifix , ’ he said . |
| 28 | I 'd only been there about five minutes when they came to escort me off down to Bleak House , where I was stripped naked and given a blanket and put into a cell . |
| 29 | ‘ I was watching that nun talking to you — it seems to have given you quite a turn . ’ |
| 30 | Well I was watching that with Steven |