Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] [det] " 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 | It was five-thirty in the morning , and when I finally got to sleep I was hating those birds . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | No , I was using some , I was washing with a mouthwash in the morning . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | ‘ I was eating some gnocchi with this Italian — I did n't say nookey . ’ |
| 10 | By now I was eating some of the bread from Reggane . |
| 11 | I was chatting all about me units Ange |
| 12 | ‘ I was watching that nun talking to you — it seems to have given you quite a turn . ’ |
| 13 | Well I was watching that with Steven |
| 14 | I was watching that yesterday was n't I when she come to do me hair . |
| 15 | I certainly was , I was watching that and thinking ‘ well , do n't cut it up too much lads , because hopefully we 'll be there . |
| 16 | I was watching that film and thinking of her . |
| 17 | Then er , after that have another , I was watching another one then about the er first world war , you know . |
| 18 | I was watching this |
| 19 | Yeah , well when I was typing that bit — I actually said originally except Lorimer . |
| 20 | As I was typing this on the computer ( my VDU is a television set ) , the screen went odd with flashing lines and all the words missing . |
| 21 | As I was typing these words , a young friend phoned to tell me about the wonderful summer holiday he had just had with his father . |
| 22 | Well , I was discussing that with Frank last night and he actually pointed out that it might help the sales of the Financial Times because er , er the F T's very often bought as a second newspaper and if you get your first newspaper cheap , you 've got more change in your pocket . |
| 23 | For several years that basic idea of using a flight simulator kept coming up in my mind and it was in 1974 , after I had attended the meeting of the Accident Investigation Division of ICAO in Montreal , that I was discussing this same problem with Bernard Caiger of the Canadian National Research Council . |
| 24 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 25 | Well , me and Andrew Love were talking backstage the other day , listening to our drummer and keyboard player having a jam out front , and I was humming this made-up saxophone solo , and he was going , ‘ Oh , God — if you were a sax player , watch out ! ’ |
| 26 | I was counting these pages last night and gave up at forty-two . |
| 27 | I suppose I was remembering all those tests I had so long ago , all those nasty little operations — ’ Irene broke off , looking intently into her cup of coffee , as if it were to blame . |
| 28 | I was remembering some of the facts I built up from the data you brought me . |
| 29 | I was drawing these pictures in my head of walking across a tightrope and falling into a chasm . |
| 30 | And I was reaching some conclusions about the choice that Gharr had given me . |