Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By morning , I was covered in bites from a number of loathsome insects who fed better than I did . |
| 2 | Well , he said he was a writer , and I said I was looking for plays to invest in and why did n't he write one about his friend , and a couple of months later he 'd written something pretty splendid , had n't he ? |
| 3 | I was looking for signs afterwards . |
| 4 | We were living here and there , and I was looking for investors , so we gave a care-of-Cook 's address . |
| 5 | At first I found this rather frustrating , since I was looking for answers . |
| 6 | I was looking for drugs and walking over the aerosol cans . |
| 7 | Sorry I 'm sorry I was , I was looking for speakers , I 'm ever so sorry sorry Chairman . |
| 8 | I made some comm-calls to contacts on planets here and there , pretending to some that I was looking for commissions , to others that I was in different parts of the galaxy transporting things for different people . |
| 9 | Terry rightly told me I went down the wrong I was looking for names rather than the dots . |
| 10 | Cos say I was looking for angles and that would 've just been fifty up here would n't it . |
| 11 | I was looking at actions |
| 12 | No I was looking at trees in er B and Q |
| 13 | I was tempted by fantasies of the past , |
| 14 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 15 | The next day I was chatting to friends — Joy and Alan Byne . |
| 16 | I had been enrolled as a student at Canterbury before I went to Cambridge ; during the next four years I was visited by missionaries home on leave from Burma , though nothing definite was said . |
| 17 | I was hidden in a coffin and taken to a cemetery.Then I was disguised in priests garb . |
| 18 | I was hidden in a coffin and taken to a cemetery.Then I was disguised in priests garb . |
| 19 | And as she opened her legs I was flooded by thoughts and feelings I 'd never had before . |
| 20 | I was auditioning for Cats and that 's where I really first met Andrew Lloyd Webber . |
| 21 | ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice . |
| 22 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 23 | Told me I was jumping to conclusions and weaving fantasies and all the rest of it . |
| 24 | As the son and grandson of miners , I was reared on stories of coal and collieries . |
| 25 | When pressed by the defence on how he could see what was happening in the dark the man replied : ‘ I was reared without lights . |
| 26 | I was clutching at straws . |
| 27 | Claudia , 21 , reportedly the highest-paid model in the world , says : ‘ Those stories that I was pictured with whips are complete rubbish . |
| 28 | He said he was to get £30,000 to £40,000 for his role , and added : ‘ I went down the A82 via Fort William before I was stopped by police at Doune . ’ |
| 29 | We only just got back , the others have gone home , I was stopping for cigarettes when I saw you . |
| 30 | I became slightly unnerved by the frequent reassurances I was given by fundholders that they would n't do anything to ‘ upset the applecart ’ or disadvantage their colleagues ' patients . |