Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all I could think of was the way that baby had felt in my arms , and inside I was hating God for doing this to me . ’ |
| 2 | I just got me coal and I was looking solvent and I 've only got so many weeks and I 've got to empty the stupid thing again . |
| 3 | I would drag one round the school , I was looking sort of like , like , cos Colin . |
| 4 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 5 | I now realise that I was really teaching social passivity and conformity , academic snobbery and the naturalness of good healthy competition , and that I was using maths as an instrument for achieving these things . |
| 6 | In order to do this I decided to work loosely with the oils as if I was using watercolours , thinning with genuine turpentine and allowing colours to bleed into one another . |
| 7 | Of his own interest in flying , Mr Tholen said : ‘ I was using air taxis a lot to go to the Continent when I was working at Billingham . ’ |
| 8 | In Hüsker Dü I was using Ibanez Flying Vees — the Rocket Roll Junior was the exact name , 1975 issue . |
| 9 | ‘ In the end I was acting mum to six orphaned baby hedgehogs — getting up to feed them every three hours , which is n't much fun . |
| 10 | Yeah , it 's exactly that kind of experience that I think has got me thinking about what I was saying before you came , well before we were just doing the coffee , about the idea of actually starting to draw , well I was calling contracts , but probably it 's more better called agreements , about you know , the theatre will do this , we will do that and |
| 11 | I was calling Sweetman 's bluff , confident he would not dare pull the trigger , and equally confident that my marine training would let me turn him into mincemeat . |
| 12 | if you shout Helen , I was shouting Helen ! |
| 13 | One evening as I was nearing Farr 's entrance , I was running , tripped , with the result that I banged my head on the pavement . |
| 14 | As I was training Dawn more to display her than to use her to hunt , this comparative lack of interest in food was n't a problem . |
| 15 | Please to remember I was no longer actually the horse-thief , but I was now at Warboys with the Pathfinder Training Unit and so I was training replacements . |
| 16 | I du n no , er yes , I was eating jam , bread and jam today . |
| 17 | I was eating cakes in the morning before I went to school and for about two years I was dieting , trying one diet or another . |
| 18 | I was eating supper in the dark to save batteries . |
| 19 | ‘ In those days I was eating Almond Toffee Creams and they came in much cracklier paper . ’ |
| 20 | I was n't chewing gum though , I was eating sweets |
| 21 | And I was eating steak for the second time in less than fifteen hours . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't take the call , I was watching TV , ’ recalled Freddie . |
| 23 | I was watching Sky replays of the incident over tea and snickers at half time , and heard the pundits blathering about a handball by Rod Wallace which they could clearly see happening , but I could n't . |
| 24 | I was watching Kim walk back to the screens . |
| 25 | I was watching Rainbow earlier . |
| 26 | I was watching snooker last night |
| 27 | And there was one of last Christmas ' bestsellers : ‘ I was watching television about two years ago when I saw this ad . |
| 28 | I was watching Stalag 17 with my grandmother and being felt up by a dirty old man . |
| 29 | I was watching Jennifer dance . |
| 30 | It does n't seem more than a few months since I was knitting clothes for her dolls — and now — ’ She held up her needles , speared through the left front of a pearly-white matinée jacket . |