Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [v-ing] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was trundling out the obvious . ’ |
| 2 | Well I was looking out the other side cos I was trying to work out where Glynis lived . |
| 3 | Course , I was looking out the window and I know he took I picked it out and it I looked again , there 's another one in there , course she 's only getting out the bath put them in a bowl like I was ! |
| 4 | Instead I was looking down the quay to where a pathetically thin girl was walking beside a smartly dressed woman . |
| 5 | And then the whole thing swivelled round in my head , and I was looking down the same chimney from the top , and nothing was about to stop me falling down it . |
| 6 | I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional . |
| 7 | Every Saturday morning , while I was setting up the barrow , Mr Salmon used to disappear off to the Whitechapel synagogue leaving his wife to run the shop . |
| 8 | ‘ When I was setting up the Fine Chemicals Manufacturing Organization [ FCMO ] in the early '80s , there was no doubt quality was the main way to compete more effectivey and raise performance . |
| 9 | At the time I was mucking out the byre stalls , and piling the manure on top of my big heap when I saw the lights go on in the house . |
| 10 | There I was strolling down the scrubby end of the Kings Road , mooching along . |
| 11 | At one point in 1987 I was bowling up the M6 talking to a colleague in London on my ‘ hands-off ’ Cellnet phone — it had a microphone in front of me on the visor . |
| 12 | After landing on Kiwi soil , the Kerryman smiled : ‘ I thought I was seeing double the airport we touched down at was called Kerikeri ! ’ |
| 13 | ’ I was thinking only the other day , ’ he went on , ’ that if I did n't have a wife and child to support I would throw in my resignation , take the voluntary redundancy on offer , sell the flat and go . |
| 14 | I was flying out the next day and they changed my flight to the night before and I missed it . |
| 15 | Only a few weeks after returning from playing with polar bears in Spitsbergen , I was soaking up the sun in the Seychelles . |
| 16 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 17 | We could n't sense that , a few hundred feet above us up the ridge , David Simpson 's and Jane Lapiner 's house had shaken apart , that rocks had thundered down the cliff face opposite my house , that a mile to the north at the precise moment that we were walking through Jim 's house and I was spreading out the blueprints on the hood of my car to continue our conversation , an overturned electric coffee pot in the Petrolia store had already started a blaze that would finish off the store and our adjoining post office in about 45 minutes . |
| 18 | A week later I was called back to Downing Street by Margaret Thatcher and told that I was taking over the Department of Health and Social Security and also the question-and-answer session . |
| 19 | I mean as I said when I was filling in the questionnaire I was thinking well this , really this is my preference and you know I 'd much rather be in a job that allowed me some flexibility . |
| 20 | Except for a small diversion and nibble some bits of lamb when I was cutting up the meat lunchtime , and to try and serving of it . |
| 21 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
| 22 | The other day , one lunchtime in fact , I was walking up the Farringdon Road . |
| 23 | No , I was walking up the ramps and it was ripped out of my hand actually . |
| 24 | Today I was following not the valley path of the corpse way but the pathway to Keld that runs above Northgang Scar from which the views across to Black Hill and up to Swinner Gill are wonderful . |
| 25 | Barnes added : ‘ Being on the same pitch as that other bloke Barnes would be a dream because only two years ago I was putting up the nets on Sunday mornings for my hospital team . ’ |
| 26 | I stole it out of one of the Posten 's haversacks when I was cleaning out the guard-room . |
| 27 | I was cleaning out the room there the other day and he must be training , he must be weightlifting or something up in the bedroom but he 's a health health book , a big thick health book and there 's bodies , you know , the human body |
| 28 | Take-off time arrived and the oil temperatures were still somewhat below the criteria , but I opened the throttles and very shortly the tail was up and I was heading down the short runway into a brisk headwind , pointing straight for the little pub outside the camp that had become a second home for us . |
| 29 | Next morning I was driving down the single village street when I saw Mrs Bailes coming out of the shop . |
| 30 | No , but it all adds up I was sitting there the other day adding up your things |