Example sentences of "i [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know why my experienced colleague and I were both having trouble with the yarn looping at the edges . |
| 2 | It got rather nasty — at one point my sister and I were actually playing tug-of-war with a vase — and ended with us rowing about which of us was his favourite . |
| 3 | ‘ Every room here has been booked since a year ago , and I was dearly hoping Donna would screw up the nerve to send her packing , but Mrs Foster happened by , and Matthew 's fiancée recognised her . |
| 4 | So far from craving for crumpets I was firmly resisting repatriation and trying hard to stay where I was ; the kindness of friends enabled me to do so . |
| 5 | I was just trying work out when Robert left school and whether he would be the first lot , but he wo n't be . |
| 6 | There was never any budget and so I was just using stuff that I 'd already recorded here and there — hence the roughness of it . |
| 7 | I was just making conversation , ’ she answered with dignity ; and he tried to look chastened . |
| 8 | ROS : I was just making conversation . |
| 9 | I was just making supper when that stupid eunuch came along making a great commotion . ’ |
| 10 | I was just playing bass in my bedroom before I joined The Lost Pandas , ’ he says . |
| 11 | Erm it 's also the case that , particularly when abuse is of this sort of y'know like I was just describing y'know stroking , caressing , all that kind of things um it a lot of erm in some cases very confused feelings on the part of the people who 've been abused . |
| 12 | I was just killing time . |
| 13 | And I was reading , I was n't even doing anything , I was just sitting reading and the teacher walked in and I did n't hear him . |
| 14 | Um and erm I was just wondering y'know kind of erm often when I write questionnaires I like to go for a sort of more kind of rather less declarative statements . |
| 15 | ‘ Aw , I was just having fun , ’ said the dog . |
| 16 | And t' other week I were up there and I I was just asking woman just as a matter of interest love , I said , how much . |
| 17 | ‘ I was even taken to hospital at one point thinking I had a hypo coming on , but then we realised that I was actually having panic attacks — a delayed reaction to losing my sight . |
| 18 | And as to my previous remark , I was merely attempting familiarity . |
| 19 | The last tour , I had so much stuff and I was always having trouble with it breaking down and having to troubleshoot . |
| 20 | But I was still denying emptiness . |
| 21 | I was now moving south-west , dazzled by the low sun . |
| 22 | ‘ I was only making conversation . |