Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was practically screaming with frustration . |
| 2 | But I 'm sure that that was what I was somehow looking for . |
| 3 | ‘ Peggy , the only bird ah want the noo ( I was again reverting to the vernacular ) is you . ’ |
| 4 | I was again walking along the length of the building and through another archway into an area with yet two more large windows and another fireplace built into the opposite side of the chimney from the one below , with a raised slate hearth . |
| 5 | Now when I was away staying with my cousins |
| 6 | I was clearly going to be on the phone for a long time . |
| 7 | I was busily listening to these subliminal hisses of disapproval when Alison Kraemer appeared at my elbow . |
| 8 | ’ I was mostly reporting to that woman leader , Sergia ’ |
| 9 | So for the rest of the month I was in charge of wages , piece rates , training , negotiations and all the rest of it , and then one day a month I was regularly calling on the same customers in Bloomsbury and I was collecting money , selling the goods and so on , which I think was a very important part of my continued training . |
| 10 | But I do n't expect you to believe I was simply looking for a good time . |
| 11 | erm Darwin says in the origin , and I 'm sorry I ca n't read it to you , but I was desperately looking for the quotation in the origin before I can and I could n't find it but I assure you it 's there erm in which he remarks that in all probability the periods of time during which species are not changing is probably very large compared with those periods when change is taking place . |
| 12 | ‘ I was desperately waiting for the magic word ‘ Cut ’ so I could attach myself to the wires before falling , ’ he says . |
| 13 | ‘ I was even thinking about how we would play against West Ham . |
| 14 | I was even thinking of of |
| 15 | I was managing to put our disastrous marriage behind me , and I was even getting to the stage where I could look forward to the future . |
| 16 | I was just looking for a reference |
| 17 | ‘ I guess I threw myself at you because of everything that had happened between Jonathan and myself ; I guess I was just looking for a diversion and you happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 18 | Yeah I was just looking for a memory jogger here , I just could n't remember what it was |
| 19 | Oh I was just looking for that . |
| 20 | I was just looking for something . |
| 21 | It was just I I was just looking at there them down there . |
| 22 | I have n't got any with me , and I was just looking at graphs for someone else earlier . |
| 23 | ‘ I was just looking at you against the lights of the city , ’ she says . |
| 24 | ‘ I was just looking at the place . |
| 25 | ‘ I was just looking at the scenery . ’ |
| 26 | Yeah I was just looking at erm I thought that was quite a bit of resolute defending there from er Whitlow . |
| 27 | I was just looking at vehicle operating cost savings . |
| 28 | It happened to me when I was sort of looking at some sort of electronic engineering that I was n't supposed to be doing I was just looking at it for interest like Well I 'd like to have the time to spend on that but I 'll leave that thank you very much . |
| 29 | I was just looking at that , going right off the subject but er that Uri Geller ? |
| 30 | I was just looking at that tree , the way it 's stunted up there , I have n't really noticed before . |