Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [v-ing] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hello there , erm I was calling in to sort of object to the erm whole presentation of recent events in the , in the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | And , I was prattling on to your dad , saying when we claimed it back when we claimed it back we 'll bring it early but |
| 3 | In writing the book I was jumping on to something of a bandwagon . |
| 4 | In his account of the final stage , it is as if the unheard melody of which he had some intimation suddenly becomes audible and transposes all his experience into its terms : In my prayer I was reaching out to heaven with heartfelt longing when I became aware , in a way I can not explain , of a symphony of song , and in myself I sensed a corresponding harmony at once wholly delectable and heavenly , which persisted in my mind . |
| 5 | I associated the whole family thing with being older and I was holding on to my youth . |
| 6 | I was so cold today , yeah , I got a , I filled up that kettle and I boiled it and I got , I was holding on to it and I fell backwards on to my bed and I burnt myself |
| 7 | For this print , I was thinking back to the patterns of light and shade created by strong sunlight . ’ |
| 8 | We 'd had a huge rally of 10,000 people for Ronald Reagan at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas and I was flying on to Los Angeles with one of the co-ordinators the next morning . |
| 9 | Yes after Lucy about , er yes that was what I was getting around to , by that time of course I should be erm |
| 10 | They invited me to take part in the next one and I went along with them , having no idea what I was getting in to . |
| 11 | By Sunday evening , though , I was getting back to myself and expected to be let out in a day or two but they kept me in for the week , giving me tests , including an electrocardiogram . ’ |
| 12 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
| 13 | Shifty-Eyes could n't do much about it as I was hanging on to his foot . |
| 14 | I was hanging on to the ledge at the deep end , arms out in the crucifix position when I saw her come out of the ladies ’ changing rooms wearing a yellow and white striped one-piece . |
| 15 | Eric was sitting in the front looking absurdly English and in the back was an old man I was taking back to the mountains . |
| 16 | ‘ While other children were out playing I was practising up to 30 hours a week after school . |
| 17 | As I was walking up to his house two young bearded men in jeans and sweaters got out of a car and ran towards me . |
| 18 | ‘ When I was walking up to Keble Road yesterday I saw someone standing at the bus-stop outside St Giles ’ Church , waiting to get up to Summertown . |
| 19 | As I was walking over to the piano I was thinking , ‘ Should I really be doing this ? ’ |
| 20 | One evening , towards midnight , I was walking back to my hotel from Dana 's place along a deserted street . |
| 21 | One day , I was walking back to the house , and had my camera with me . |
| 22 | I bet it 's come again and I was dashing in to , I had about two minutes to Sunday |
| 23 | I felt like a portly 60 year old man with a beard , and that I was shuffling down to the shops in my espadrilles like he does , with his horrible , ratty little dog . ’ |
| 24 | Yeah he 's always putting When I was going over to Royals . |
| 25 | As I was going up to my cell it all hit me — am I ever going to get my daughter back ? |
| 26 | In fact I 'd told a couple of the group — Mr and Mrs Kronquist , I think it was — that I was going up to Summertown . ’ |
| 27 | I know I did a thing on the phone with somebody once where erm er let's see what it was , oh I was going round to his house to cut some ends of bricks of a wall with er with a big angle grinder and I phoned up and said , hello this Leicester Brick Decapitation Services , I gather you 've got some bricks who 's heads need cutting off , and it was the wrong person |
| 28 | erm , I have n't , I was gon na go and , I tried phoning Lorne one time I was going through to Glasgow just to see if I could , can I have a , can I have a pint with him or something , erm , just to chew it over cos he suggested you know he 'd made various helpful suggestions , in the meantime I did n't manage to meet him , but in the meantime I did manage to speak to my father-in-law who has a camcorder and er he will be more than happy to erm , he 's also got editing equipment , he would be more than happy you know , to do the home made video that we 've talked about , I need to talk to him about this because the obvious place to do will be the Lyceum on one of your shows |
| 29 | My purple stripy barrel-bag — it was small , it 'd look as if I was going off to my gran 's for the weekend . |
| 30 | The result was that on the Saturday morning , I told my mother there was nothing for me in England and I was going back to Germany to try and get my old job back . |