Example sentences of "[coord] i was [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very red and frothy , frothy colour blood , okay , supposing I had er damaged the lining of the stomach , or perhaps I 've had an ulcer that I 've perforated , and I was coughing up blood from the stomach what colour might that be ? |
| 2 | ‘ Later they told me my body just went up in the air and I was hanging on by one hand . ’ |
| 3 | J. Chapman , Sledmere Drive , Acklam , Middlesbrough : I was a final year pharmacy student in Sunderland and I was setting up apparatus for a chemistry experiment , when another student came in with the sad news that the King had died . |
| 4 | It felt as though someone was pulling my lifeline away from me and I was flailing around , trying to grab hold of it . |
| 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 | It was late and I was looking down at Chung Kuo , wondering what lay ahead . |
| 7 | And I was looking out through the door and you have n't got five minutes longer . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | I associated the whole family thing with being older and I was holding on to my youth . |
| 11 | It was a warm , sunny june day in Fontanellato and I was riding out into the country on my bicycle when another cyclist gave me the news . |
| 12 | ‘ The man had died and I was getting on with my life . ’ |
| 13 | I 'd saved some money , grown heartily sick of London , fast food and maybe people , too , and I was getting out . |
| 14 | And I was dancing round with her , yeah ? |
| 15 | and I was dancing about and I said , I 'm not gon na make it . |
| 16 | He took drugs , he said , ‘ because my parents had divorced and I was crying out for love . |
| 17 | It was dark and I was walking along an unmade road alone . |
| 18 | And I was walking down with my yorks [ straps below the knee ] and my belt , everything tied and dressed properly like a collier . |
| 19 | It seems to me that this is something on which er not en passant but within the flow of his report Dr Stuart mentioned something of great importance and I was jotting down for myself , by way of aide memoire , membership , Madagascar , ministry of the whole people of God , three Ms as it were . |
| 20 | we did , some had gone out on the plates and then I had three boxes left and I was going round giving them out . |
| 21 | And I saw your mother and I was going on saying all your virtues and how she 's been a good girl , how does that , how er , how erm self discipline she was and all this is on the tape |
| 22 | And I was going up this ladder . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Erm I , I think I might have missed Adam 's point and I was going back to whether the south was more efficient than the north because just tying it in with the seminar we had on managerial farms , were n't there more in the north than in the south ? |
| 25 | Well when we went there was Phyllis , Julie , and me and I was in the middle of because I 'd never been on ice skates before , I 'd been roller skating holding each side of them right , and they let me go and I just went and I was going down and I went bang right on the bloody side . |
| 26 | And I was going down to Waterloo for my train |
| 27 | Raymond was here and I was going out with her |
| 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 | ‘ And I was mopping up , ’ Merrill supplied . |
| 30 | The first of the two meetings then was of the regional chairman of BAIE ( and I was standing in for ours in Scotland ) followed by a meeting of the Council of BAIE . |