Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When Boro played Peterborough United in the Rumbelows League Cup I was cheering on the lads . |
| 2 | I was going mad : my mum was swearing at me , I was swearing at her ; finally I just lost my temper and said . |
| 3 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 4 | I was pretending to be another man , but losing my own heart . |
| 5 | In a fitful sleep I dreamt I was swimming through drowned villages . |
| 6 | And er I was dragging behind a few paces and the headmaster was watching out of his study window you see ? |
| 7 | ‘ This result is exactly what I was looking for , ’ Prost said . |
| 8 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said , ‘ I was looking for something else . ’ |
| 9 | But I was not going for a bus ride , I was looking for the gents . |
| 10 | ‘ I was looking for you all over . |
| 11 | I think these things were not common in those days and I was looking for someone who had great potential , and decided I 'd found it in David Bowie . |
| 12 | I was looking for your number once . |
| 13 | I was the one he was looking for , and he was the one I was looking for . ’ |
| 14 | When I remarked that this was a pity , since I was looking for a peat replacement to acidify limey soil , my man began detectably to back-pedal . |
| 15 | I had become more and more interested in the business world , going back to work at the bank in Newcastle during my vacations , so I was looking for a general business career . ’ |
| 16 | I never wilted and was proud of my fighting qualities when I was looking for survival and happy for any form of success . |
| 17 | When I went to Highlander I was looking for a way which could help towards more effective participation and the development of better non-formal opportunities in adult education on social issues which affect communities in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland . |
| 18 | I was looking for a way out into the aisle . |
| 19 | I was looking for a book on how people make them . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ This is what I was looking for , ’ he said , and opened it . |
| 21 | ‘ I was looking for a bird 's nest to show Tory , Mummy . ’ |
| 22 | In this I may be vulnerable , for I was on the lookout for miracles and it was while watching Nancy , listening to her and eventually breaking my own icy shield and talking to her , that I came close to seeing what I was looking for . |
| 23 | I knew exactly what I was looking for , they had to be here somewhere , the one and only pair of knickers left uncontaminated in that disastrous load at the launderette , the stuff that had got washed along with that bargain-price bright-pink non-fast Indian-cotton mini-skirt from C&A . |
| 24 | In myself and other men I was looking for what I was deeply afraid of losing — my wholeness as a man . |
| 25 | The man I was looking for , I thought , was fifty-something , maybe less , still powerful ; not in decline . |
| 26 | Then she asked what salary I was looking for . |
| 27 | ‘ I was looking for engineering companies to invest in and manage , ’ he says . |
| 28 | ‘ I was looking for a sounding board and that 's what I 've got . ’ |
| 29 | Addressed exactly those topics I was looking for . ’ |
| 30 | Since there was no picture with June 's letter I was not aware that I would end up with the cable I was looking for . |