Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The red second hand was coming up to six-thirty , 14 January , and I was counting thirty-eight beats a minute , slower than ever , half the rate of two years ago . |
| 32 | I was drawing these pictures in my head of walking across a tightrope and falling into a chasm . |
| 33 | And I was reaching some conclusions about the choice that Gharr had given me . |
| 34 | I did over Christmas , I did some Carlton and Alfy down there no , no that 's where I met , I had a Christmas holiday job , couple of days worked for him , I was lugging these vices up |
| 35 | I was sprinting full tilt across the playground , with the ‘ bad boy ’ of the year hot on my heels , as it was ‘ boys after girls ’ . |
| 36 | ‘ I was wearing lime-green chiffon and my mother 's emeralds . |
| 37 | Since I was wearing posh garden visiting attire — a pair of thin striped leggings , white leather ballet pumps , a halterneck top , a cute bolero cardigan and dangly earrings — we were only planning to leave the car for some air . |
| 38 | I think that because I was wearing dark clothes and not giggling , he saw me as a challenge . |
| 39 | I went cold with horror — I was wearing odd shoes ! |
| 40 | People would occasionally point out that I was wearing odd shoes , but it really did n't seem to matter . |
| 41 | I 'd be concerned as to whether I was wearing more layers of clothing than the other women , and whether anyone had noticed . |
| 42 | J.B. I was wearing this jumper . |
| 43 | ‘ If I thought I was causing any pain to the fish I would n't go fishing and I think all anglers feel that way , ’ he says . |
| 44 | ‘ The last time I went to see a specialist about my knee , I was ready to pack it in if he 'd told me I was facing another year out . |
| 45 | I had , of course , been told by my surgeon that everything he could see he had taken out , On the other hand , I had chosen to explore further on my own and I was learning that cancer has this nasty habit of playing possum . |
| 46 | Obviously I was learning new things all the time and each day we built on what we had learned the day before . |
| 47 | I was learning bad language . |
| 48 | And I was thinking awful things — like how I could get my revenge … ’ |
| 49 | ‘ I was thinking that responsibility , and maybe guilt , had turned Lachlan Cattanach onto the straight road . |
| 50 | Erm , I would be happy , I mean , I purposely , I put some lines in just because I was thinking that way at the time , but I 'd be very happy if other people would scribble it out , change it , throw it back at me , you know , I would like to see I suppose , just to see if we can erm , if that , because , because I have to say that although you know part of reading 's letter , erm , I feel it 's , it , it feels destructive and it feels very critical . |
| 51 | We have a friendly hug and I tell her I was laying three places anyway . |
| 52 | Actually I was wanting that Capri last night actually . |
| 53 | I did n't know it then but I was receiving subliminal training for later business life . |
| 54 | I therefore reminded him that the Emperor had authorized my journey , and told him that whether his soldiers came with me or not I was leaving that afternoon . |
| 55 | With my own two children , I felt cheerful and reasonably well during the first pregnancy ; the bonding process with the baby was immediate and passionate , but nine months later I was seeking medical help for exhaustion . |
| 56 | I am no less interested to observe that , for Eliot , who always seemed unhurried , ‘ there is plenty of time ’ could mean a period of not much more than three weeks for reading ( the Strachey book being pretty long ) , writing typing and dispatching : which , given the fact that Spender 's book had not arrived , that I was teaching all day and conducting some evening classes , I still consider a tight fit . |
| 57 | I remember years ago , when I was teaching slow learners in a Child Guidance clinic , a little girl from a small village was reading a story in which reference was made to someone ‘ cheeking the dinner lady . ’ |
| 58 | Oh I 'm really pleased about that , cos last time on a , I was really disappointed I 'd been refused the course cos I thought oh , it 'll be right up my street that , cos when I was teaching full time I was quite into these er computers at the beginning and the one that went |
| 59 | I was riding that bike yesterday and it was alright but I si slipped doing that . |
| 60 | ‘ I was struggling this morning because there is a frightfully long speech it becomes a feat of memory and if memory was the only element involved in acting then Leslie Welch the memory man would have been the greatest actor in the world . |