Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tal talking about pensions Tom , the chap er cha with the office girls and that and , and checking our expense sheets , he , he er they put a notice on the board you could ante your what , in your pension , you could a put a bit more into it and I were looking at notice and he says ooh he says it 's no good for you , he says er w well I told you about it did n't I ? |
| 2 | Afterwards ( another former Lancaster student ) invited me home to tea , and in the evening , and I were entertained at home by |
| 3 | I have tried to explain why the hon. Member for Gateshead , East and I were talking at cross purposes . |
| 4 | Kay was the name that I was called at home , my middle name , one of my father 's names , and I knew that Kay , the boy in The Snow Queen , was me , who had a lump of ice in her heart . |
| 5 | These are the one 's I was looking at look , seven ninety nine , yeah , . |
| 6 | But I was looking at immensity . |
| 7 | ‘ Of all the things I was taught at school , this sticks in my mind more that anything , ’ said Christine Cooper when she wrote to tell us of her reaction to an article in MKM. that was last spring when we published a newsletter from Christine Morey telling of her adventures in Romania . |
| 8 | I was gon na say about sex education that when I was learning at school , it 's also very male dominated erm it was , I mean you were talking about erm what 's i li , the differences between males and females learning about sex education and wha , and we were learnt about the the man having pleasure , we were taught about the man having the erection and the man having the orgasm , I mean , we did n't even know what a clitoris was ! |
| 9 | I was living at home and working well at the Co-op in Hammersmith , dealing with ledger sales , counting the cash , keeping it flowing . |
| 10 | I was living at home . |
| 11 | I mean you look at , see I I 've had , I felt like when I was coughing at work I felt like sitting there and I thought I ca n't believe this . |
| 12 | ‘ I was presented at Court in the summer of 1882 , ’ she said quietly . |
| 13 | I said the truth is , that he reported that I was sleeping at night . |
| 14 | ‘ But one day I was sitting at home , doodling around the 12th fret and trying to figure out how I could play in a minor key without having to retune the guitar . |
| 15 | Come the following night , I was sitting at home with Caroline ( Nigel 's daughter by his first marriage , the wife of the ‘ moving ’ John , who had not long returned to Denmark ) . |
| 16 | A day or two before our transmission of the item , I was sitting at home watching Top of the Pops on the BBC . |
| 17 | When I was fifteen I was sitting at home and my dad was crashed out in the chair , my dad 's a Fords worker , and the Miss World beauty contest came on the television and I just felt really overwhelmed by this vision . |
| 18 | When I was sitting at dinner on the terrace . |
| 19 | If I 'd have thought that Mrs Carrow would take it on herself to go down to the beach with little Celia that morning when one of my younger brothers came for me because my mum was ill , well I 'd never have gone , however much I was needed at home . |
| 20 | ‘ Because I was needed at home to do the work . ’ |
| 21 | Yes , because er in the university when I was studying at home , we have not er this tutor system like here and so it 's really strange , but I think it 's a good idea of , er talking to your lecturers as equal people . |
| 22 | I was woken at midnight by the cries of hundreds of Lilliputians outside my house . |
| 23 | But just when I was feeling at home in the loin-cloth and boot polish , and when I 'd learned my lines before anyone else and was getting as competent as a little orangutan on the scaffolding , I saw that our conflicts had n't ended . |
| 24 | I think it 's more to the point cos what I was doing at Christmas was n't really exploring the attitudes as I wanted |
| 25 | Nothing could be worse than the life I was leading at present , I thought , where the pressures from being homeless and unemployed were likely to force me into a series of criminal acts which would result in prison , or vagrancy at the least . |
| 26 | When I was left at school I was savage at not being let go home ; and when I went home , my mother did nothing but find fault with my schoolboy manners . |
| 27 | I was telephoned at home as soon as it happened and when I arrived everyone was here , police , fire brigade , the gas board and the bomb squad . |