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Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] i [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’
2	‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’
3	I do n't think I would have made quite so much impact , however , if it had n't been for the fact that , while they were carrying me round the church yelling , ‘ Aliens ! ’ 'Jesus Christ ! ’ and ‘ The snake cometh ! ’ the roof fell in .
4	I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start .
5	Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’
6	And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike .
7	You were telling me about the common lodging houses .
8	I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on .
9	I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on .
10	She was helping me with the french .
11	Gyggle was driving me along the coast road to Brighton as he spoke .
12	The day came suddenly and before I knew it my father was driving me into the town of Ipswich to drop me off near the studio .
13	I was in a shop once , buying scented candles , and on the radio came Steve Wright with a collage of Smiths ’ songs , and I got a distinct chill , almost as though the hand of death was tapping me on the shoulder , saying : ‘ put yer candles down , it 's time to go ! ’ ’
14	One time I did and he was tapping me on the shoulder saying , ‘ I 've broken a string ’ .
15	He was in highly sociable mood and , bereft of any equals , was addressing me on the subject of the decline of western civilisation and the loss of old standards .
16	Nour had taken me by the shoulders and was pushing me towards the pool .
17	As Estella was leading me along the dark passages , she stopped suddenly and put her face close to mine .
18	He guessed rightly that little Didier Bluot was leading me into the cemetery and would direct me to Montaine 's grave .
19	They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car .
20	I would n't get the opportunity to find out who else was calling me at the same time .
21	I dreamt that my mother was calling me from the bottom of a deep , deep well .
22	I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal .
23	I must have dropped off to sleep ; next thing , someone was prodding me in the ribs with a rifle butt , and a voice was saying , ‘ Come on , Piper .
24	‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’
25	I think Alwin and Pat use an auditor cos as you know he 's in business and I 've got a feeling that Alwin was asking me about the auditors the other day , so whether there 's would be , whoever he is , would be er willing to do it , I do n't know .
26	The answer was staring me in the face .
27	The registrar was regarding me over the top of his spectacles and trying not to look at his watch .
28	As I prowled about outside the garden wall , it came on me with a start that a young , man was regarding me over the barrel of a pistol .
29	Well he was poking me in the groin .
30	Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots .