Example sentences of "[subord] i was [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I was living in Mauritius , the time I could spend in jeans would be restricted , as young women seldom wear trousers ; the punjabi dress , with its tight-fitting trousers , is acceptable , though . |
| 2 | We well ye yes I can but er obviously er I , I , I sha n't be doing because erm I 've got too many er hopefully too ma d it 's much better , it would have been much better if I was living in a home , you see where , where we can |
| 3 | I think they spoke to each other but I did n't get a good look until I was sitting in Armstrong with the engine running . |
| 4 | Cos I was reading in Hugh 's book that the very first sort of work was in surveys done in thirty seven . |
| 5 | Yeah cos I was staying in her room and I was ill and |
| 6 | No because I , I decided I would n't put a coat on cos I was coming in the car . |
| 7 | I have to be honest and admit that I accepted the invitation to dinner to try to find out once and for all if you were involved with Martin , but that was because I needed to know , needed to prove your innocence , because I was falling in love with you . |
| 8 | And nobody could get out of the cupboard , because I was standing in the doorway . |
| 9 | Well , oh because I was standing in line |
| 10 | He wrote in his Testament not long before he died : " While I was living in sin , it seemed a very bitter thing to look at lepers ; but the Lord Himself led me among them , and I had compassion on them . |
| 11 | Craig was able to say his thanks in church while I was languishing in bed with tonsillitis . |
| 12 | While I was teaching in London and Surrey , from 1954 to 1959 , I completed a thesis for the degree of Ph.D . |
| 13 | Unbeknown to me , she made some enquiries , and then one Friday , while I was sitting in the coffee shop having a quiet read of a newspaper someone had left , she appeared by my side . |
| 14 | ‘ I had some time off while I was working in Los Angeles and I was down by the hotel pool . |
| 15 | there 's no slow start on the reverse I got it while I was working in Leicestershire so I could n't really take it back it 'll cost me more in petrol |
| 16 | While I was waiting in the car ( I thought the men would only be a few moments ) , Alan suddenly appeared at the window . |
| 17 | ‘ Do you mean that you started writing Jane Eyre while I was lying in that dark room in Manchester ? ’ |
| 18 | Well I suppose erm well I I I I mean I remember er ludicrous really , sort of thinking of what I would say at the Tory party conference while I was lying in that hospital in Venice . |
| 19 | He tried so hard to help me while I was hurting in the hours it took to reach England ’ . |
| 20 | It 's only a few days since I was sitting in the seats you all occupy , realising the difficult job that a Lord Mayor has to undertake in keeping members in order . |
| 21 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 22 | When I was writing in this magazine [ October 1987 ] about the troubles of the Flow Country in Sutherland ( christened then ‘ Britain 's Last Wilderness ’ ) , I suggested that the concept tends to devalue ‘ the presence of humans in remote areas and overvalue their contribution elsewhere . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He was working in the gardens at the château when I was staying in France , and I discovered he was English . |
| 24 | ‘ I played for their club when I was touring in Germany , and they volunteered to come over and help us whenever they could . |
| 25 | ‘ When I was living in New Hampshire , ’ he said , ‘ about half my friends , many of whom had no connection with the building industry , built their own houses . |
| 26 | Later on , when I was living in Cardiff , I would often miss the last bus from my girlfriend 's house and she used to lend me her bicycle . |
| 27 | I got to know it pretty well when I was living in Sheffield and I 'd recommend anyone to take a walking holiday there . |
| 28 | erm , yes , when I , when I was living in , in Nigeria the women were the one that , at the lower end of society , they were the ones that lived |
| 29 | My most valuable experience was a few years ago when I was living in a dingy student room in Grenoble . |
| 30 | When I was living in my former role I went along to a lesbian meeting , thinking that might be what I was , but what I wanted was a relationship with a woman as a man . |