Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I was looking in all the shop windows , at the reflections . |
| 3 | " I was looking in the window of that Primrose Cottage . |
| 4 | No , it 's alright , I was looking in here , because I mean , it , I er , you know , I saw in the er , when I looked in the manual it said it did n't pay out on H I V , so it . |
| 5 | Good , fine , I 'm not surprised , I was looking in the wrong rate book was n't I ? |
| 6 | Gone in Keith 's house , I was looking in our garden . |
| 7 | And I was looking in the yesterday and they sell them in You Ca n't Go Wrong for five ninety nine for Robert . |
| 8 | Instead I kept silent , but inside I was singing in a very loud voice . |
| 9 | Cassock and surplice , a black cassock and white surplice once I told you that my grandmother was once living with us , she used to delight in washing my surplice and ironing it up except me when I was singing in the choir , I did n't take a , the treble solos , that was after the choir used to sister of ours at least oh twenty men , and as many lads and youths the as I say Johnny was in the choir there was er the two brothers and there was Dick was a incense boy and his father was a manager to go in the , he used to have a red cassock and surplice , but he used to Dick 's dad was the incense swinger and they used to go about swinging incense and that , I do n't suppose they do that at all now , but er your first job as a choirboy was to pump the organ it , have you ever been in the church ? |
| 10 | She came to one of our mission hospitals when I was training in Australia . ’ |
| 11 | The noise had an insistent quality — like a small animal gnawing away at something or gathering food and stopping every few minutes to listen , as hard as I was listening in the dark of Mr Marr 's house . |
| 12 | I tell you our night really told you One night I was standing , we were getting ready to go out to do a show and I was ironing in the kitchen and it were about six o'clock at night and all of a sudden Rudy come flying at me like this all over me , I thought Christ not this time of bleeding night ! |
| 13 | and erm , we both decided we 'd take this diploma and er Mr erm in his kindness let us erm erm go off to the workshops and do some practical work and erm my wife lived at Stow Upland and I was lodging in Ipswich and er he even allowed us to study in the , in the erm Enquiry Office in the evenings . |
| 14 | Meanwhile I was fainting in the back seat , just thinking of what that tight black mid-thigh skirt concealed . |
| 15 | I was commenting in response to the objector 's proof in this particular case . |
| 16 | On one occasion I was breaking in new territory in Lincolnshire and my fellow ‘ artiste ’ — a male singer who shall remain nameless — moved in on me . |
| 17 | I responded as usual by smiling slightly — sufficient at least to indicate that I was participating in some way with the good-humouredness with which he was carrying on — and waited to see if my employer 's permission regarding the trip would be forthcoming . |
| 18 | Years later Elizabeth wrote to me : ‘ I felt I was participating in it , not just reading it , and what I felt was n't just admiration … . |
| 19 | I was sprinting in all the B League races for London Irish , winning all the time and getting fed up with it ; there was no real challenge . |
| 20 | 1 While I was digging in the sand I found a strange gimble. 2 Carl and Jayne are both beamish , but Mike is the beamishest person I known . |
| 21 | And erm one day when I was digging in a vegetable garden , I got a whiff of a smelly swamp in the fields , which once , I knew , had been an , a pond in the last century . |
| 22 | At one time , when I was touring in the theatre , I can remember simply having tea for breakfast and then going the whole day with nothing , then a tiny snack in the evening . |
| 23 | ‘ I played for their club when I was touring in Germany , and they volunteered to come over and help us whenever they could . |
| 24 | : I was serving in the Med fleet in HMS Saints sailing to Tobruk . |
| 25 | ‘ Surely you did n't think I was referring in any way to you ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ At this time , I was living in a sort of Walter Mitty world . |
| 27 | It was when I was living in New York , in Greenwich Village , in 1974 , after completing a semester of ‘ creative writing workshops ’ at Ohio University , where I had been very happy . |
| 28 | I was living in Mayfair and was just about to move from there and buy my first flat . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd just finished editing The Dairy Book of Home Management , which eventually sold 1.5m copies , and I was living in the Kings Road . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I was living in Gambler Terrace , Liverpool 8 and signing on the dole . |