Example sentences of "[conj] i was [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stayed there only a few days , and then for some reason I was removed to the Colegio Fray Luis de Leon , where I was given a somewhat larger and more comfortable room . |
| 2 | Some sympathetic mothers covered it with bandages and bulging dressings and I was driven to the doctors ' where I was given a more impressive bandage , leaving my finger looking the size of a small banana . |
| 3 | Gray picks at a salad as she talks : ’ I did this one interview where I was eating a cheeseburger and this guy wrote all about the blob of ketchup oozing down my chin , ’ she says . |
| 4 | David and I went to the travel agency where I was working a couple of times and kept saying , ‘ What are you doing here ? ’ |
| 5 | The reference to the ‘ friend ’ had to do with my association with the Speech Institute , where I was giving a course of lectures on what the Directress , Miss Marjorie Gullan , liked to call ‘ Modernist Poetry ’ ( for it was still considered that ‘ poetry ’ ended with the Georgians , whom we had all studied at school , and that Pound and Eliot were advanced experimenters ) . |
| 6 | ‘ You will remember that although I was born a vicar 's daughter , I have seen quite a different level of life since then . |
| 7 | I went in the belief that I was encouraging a modern renaissance of the Egyptian theatre . |
| 8 | And he was looking forward again : " I do n't feel I 've ever got to the point I aim at and I do n't think I ever will , but I would like to feel that I was getting a little nearer to it each time . " |
| 9 | Sinking into the pouch-seat , I was aware that I was getting a sever headache to go with the soreness of my face . |
| 10 | It seemed to me that I was watching a play . |
| 11 | When Dr Richard Lawrence , the society 's secretary , learned that I was writing a Christian appraisal of paganism and the occult , he pointed out that Aetherius ' members fully revered Jesus , and were convinced of his virgin birth and resurrection . |
| 12 | I normally explain to them that I was writing a book about the school and they certainly understood that . |
| 13 | I normally explain to them that I was writing a book about the school and they certainly understood that . |
| 14 | Er anyway as I say er I realized when I 'd started talking er that I was digging a bigger and bigger hole for myself so I er I climbed out of it and and made an exit . |
| 15 | But I have never forgotten advice that my research adviser gave me the first time that I was pursuing a dead end : ‘ It is important to recognise when to quit . ’ |
| 16 | On 29 April 1988 , when both the Kingman Report was published and the membership of my Working Group announced , the press presumed that I was to lead a Group which would make firm recommendations on grammar , in contrast to the equivocations of Kingman . |
| 17 | I felt that I was using a part of me that was n't used to functioning and I 've just recently started juggling |
| 18 | My Squadron 499 of the Air Training Corps became very successful , so much so that I was awarded a national honour , a Member of the British Empire , MBE ( Military ) . |
| 19 | On my first day of school my mum kept trying to wake me but I pretended I was asleep because I was so nervous , eventually mum knew that I was playing a trick . |
| 20 | ‘ I just said that I was having a drink with her to ask her what she would really like as a wedding present from the firm , because men are no good at that sort of thing . ’ |
| 21 | The blazer badge reinforced the ‘ capture of bodies ’ philosophy which had sustained our earlier lives , but was created at the same time that I was compiling a paper for presentation at the national BMA police surgeons ' conference . |
| 22 | It seems odd now that I was offered a place at Somerville College , Oxford , by my Headmistress on the strength of my extra-mural Diploma and my war service . |
| 23 | The sickening that I was making a mess of the first real pitch of the first real pitch of IV± , and that I 'd have to take my sack off if I was going to stay on , swept over me . |
| 24 | ‘ I was n't aware that I was making a — big thing , ’ Luke said acidly . |
| 25 | And indeed , to go for a more precise figure would suggest that I was making a particular point . |
| 26 | We could n't get a babysitter , so I was expecting a cold TV dinner thrown at my head when I rolled back . |
| 27 | My two main subjects were English and music , so I was spending a large part of every day doing the things I loved most . |
| 28 | I usually picked up my money on Friday evening so I was running a little short . |
| 29 | We were living in Surrey at the time and I was sharing a double bed with my brother , who 's five years older than me . |
| 30 | The plane lifted off but the weather did not and I was denied a view of Vatnajökull and the central plateau . |