Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] walk [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | One day , while he and I were walking on the moors , he announced , ‘ Jane , I 'll be leaving in six weeks . ’ |
2 | Flora and I were walking through the palm grove , on mud paths between tiny squares of pale green barley . |
3 | If I 'd a , if I were walking down the street going Nigger ! sorry ! |
4 | MY WIFE and I were walking in the Lake District when I slipped and fell . |
5 | Shortly after the case I was walking down the street and a policeman went past , laughed sneeringly and said , ‘ Got you , did n't we ? ’ |
6 | I was walking down the street , singing happily to myself , when I was startled to hear the sound of hooves on the cobbles . |
7 | It was quite funny cos I , I was walking down the road with my , my mate Robbie yeah and he 's gay and , and they went ooh |
8 | The nurse called my name ; I walked into the consulting room , flashing a worn , mechanical smile , but feeling as if I was walking onto the stage at the National without my trousers . |
9 | As a result , he once stopped his car as I was walking up the track in Monaco , opened his door and said , ‘ Hop in . ’ |
10 | I 've been , I was thinking today actually when I was walking up the road and I thought oh the is shut again . |
11 | Something inside me stretched as I walked so that at the same time I was walking on the top of those hills . |
12 | The idea of the vats of the mind reminds me of an occasion when I was walking on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania with some friends , who showed me an oak gall . |
13 | When I was walking past the marsh one , one night , when I was on my way back from school I heard a rus rustling noise behind a bu bush , when I went up the , went up first to the bush a big dragon-like thing jumped out from behind the bush , it gave me such a fright I nearly fainted . |
14 | ‘ And I was walking past the T-shirt stall and this girl I know who does Jesus Jones ' T-shirts ran over to me and said , This guy wants to talk to you — he wants to talk to you — he wants to buy the rights for that T-shirt and put them in the shops ! |
15 | ‘ And I was walking past the T-shirt stall and this girl I know who does Jesus Jones ' T-shirts ran over to me and said , This guy wants to talk to you — he wants to talk to you — he wants to buy the rights for that T-shirt and put them in the shops ! |
16 | THE other day , as I was walking along the main street of a small town in Buckinghamshire , meditating , as so often , on time and chance , and in particular on the various chances which had combined to bring me there , I suddenly heard a loud crash , followed by urgent shouts and the desperate revving of a car . |
17 | I was walking along the road and all of a sudden this police car drew up beside me . |
18 | She was scared out of her skin the time I was walking along the wall of the prom . |
19 | No no they went the other way I they were walking that way I was walking along the grass yeah . |
20 | I was sailing the Pacific , or a character in a surrealist painting ; often I was walking over the red shale past one football pitch after another , with goal-posts stretching as far as the eye could see , like white crosses over the fields of Arnhem . |
21 | I was walking across the car park when someone jumped on my back . |
22 | I was walking across the garden after breakfast , enjoying the clear wintry air , when suddenly my body was again torn by those indescribable feelings which I always experienced after a dose of the drug . |
23 | One evening as I was walking through the village , I heard a voice coming from the gable end of a cottage , ‘ Bonsoir , Monsieur . |
24 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
25 | and all that ruddy stuff , , I knew she 'd come along and put all , use to be a , he was the R S A man for the Signals and old Reggie , he was another R S A , he was headquarters company and old was in the cable laid section for people you know , came loose , I was walking through the shed and these two , I saw these two put them down , and I thought what the hell are you doing here ? |
26 | Instinctively I turned away , and then I realized I was walking in the opposite direction , then running , almost tripping over my own two flat feet . |
27 | One year , a few days after Christmas , I was walking in the Slieve Muck area . |
28 | I was walking in the fields , I do n't know who I was with , but it was someone I liked very much , a man . |
29 | But I was walking in the market place , shortly after , only about just over a week after , and I met an old fellow who had retired from Hello Graham ! |
30 | Then , " I was walking behind the leading lady when she suddenly collapsed and water was dripping on her face . |