Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He probably just assumed that you were seeing me in connection with my work . ’ |
| 2 | They were using me as a guinea-pig to investigate the hourly variation in mental efficiency of those with irregular sleeping patterns , such as airline pilots or globe-trotting diplomats . |
| 3 | ‘ So you were using me as a stud , min kaere . |
| 4 | Leeds were annoying me at their sudden inability to keep the ball on the pitch , either kicking it off , or playing stupid passes up front ( down the middle ) straight to their keeper/defenders . |
| 5 | If you were protecting me for my own good , she thought , I would be cross with you , but not this cross . |
| 6 | It would be absurd if my wife were to accuse me of using the word ‘ here ’ without meaning , since I did not know where I was . |
| 7 | I tried to take pictures of demonstrations in front of the American Embassy and the Americans were pushing me around worse than the Iraqis . |
| 8 | IWAS looking at them uncomprehendingly ; they were eyeing me like a cat watches a captured mouse that might yet try to make a dash for freedom . |
| 9 | ‘ You were tellin' me about this ‘ she ’ , ’ urged Andra with relish . |
| 10 | After confirming that I was n't taking any medication , she gave me two small white pills with a glass of water and sat me down , explaining that my Mother had been seriously burned and the pills were to help me with the shock when I saw her . |
| 11 | They put the ideas together and I suddenly became aware that they were teaching me about substitutionary atonement . |
| 12 | You have to remember I was only 19 when I first came here and people were expecting me to be totally in control . |
| 13 | His claim that ‘ if they were to put me into a barrel , I would shout glory out through the bunghole ! ’ was not a facetious pose , but the normal expression of an irrepressibly good-humoured Christian . |
| 14 | They swallowed it and said they were charging me with handling stolen goods . |
| 15 | This may seem a minor disagreement , but if you were to question me about Panofsky , I would have to say that the disagreement was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 16 | At the time , people felt they had secure jobs er in the M O D and the dockyard and so people accepted that with pensions and everything that goes with that sort of secure job , now of course the whole situation is enormously diff different and I was saying to , I have some French people staying with me this morning and I was , they were asking me about wages and I was saying to my daughter who works er on a Thursday evening in the local Sainsburys , earns more per hour than a friend of mine , well two friends of mine , one of whom is a carpenter , a fully qualified carpenter and the other is a motor mechanic , and that 's an indication of the sort of level of wages that people are paid in this area . |
| 17 | You 'd hurt me so badly — there I was , head over heels in love with you , and you were asking me to be your mistress . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , I was down there because they were questioning me about some old clothes . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't think I would have made quite so much impact , however , if it had n't been for the fact that , while they were carrying me round the church yelling , ‘ Aliens ! ’ 'Jesus Christ ! ’ and ‘ The snake cometh ! ’ the roof fell in . |
| 22 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 23 | You were discussing me with your girlfriend . |
| 24 | I knew they were discussing me in private , but I was seriously alarmed when I discovered what they had decided . |
| 25 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ By the way Bill , ’ Yanto turned enquiringly , ‘ has Bert Midgeley still got that motorbike combination you were telling me about ? ’ |
| 27 | Louise , you were telling me about Roger Clarke . |
| 28 | " What was it you were telling me about Cowslip ? |
| 29 | You were telling me about your husband . ’ |
| 30 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |