Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now I was looking at the other fella a strong comparison , I was mixing him up with I |
| 32 | that 's right , well the thing is these are , I was looking at the power today I , er not read it properly in the past , there only four rounds , these have got to be A , if you want both A and B on |
| 33 | taken off it , cos I was looking at the length of it when we were in France |
| 34 | No I was looking at the to find out whether John had an H in his name . |
| 35 | And I was looking at the drills , and |
| 36 | While I was gazing at the chamber a schoolgirl who was touring the gallery with her father came up and asked me how it worked . |
| 37 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |
| 38 | No need for him to know that I was watching at the window . |
| 39 | ‘ I was lookin' at the pichers . ’ |
| 40 | I was trembling at the unexpected sight of him , and could not control my voice , so I approached in silence . |
| 41 | We were I was I was patrolling at the time , with me partner . |
| 42 | I was stopped at the horse-car entrance by a locked door and , in response to my repeated knocking , by a determined female who told me I was n't welcome . |
| 43 | It was somewhat similar with me ; the war was on , albeit far away , and I was missing it ; patriotism and duty did enter into the picture but I was chafing at the bit like Old Dobbin who could not bear to stay away from a fire ! |
| 44 | It was just a very low part , there was a little shopping area just round there at the time er , a butcher 's shop and a greengrocer 's shop and a Post Office , Street was the Post Office on the corner , and then Street and Road which lead down into , Lane and just round oh just round there you see , but I was born at the last house in the Street almost at the bottom of Street . |
| 45 | Since I was pipped at the post for the Periodical Publishers ' Association Columnist of the Year award by Maureen Lipman , star of stage and commercial , I thought I 'd better look up her column in She magazine to see how I might bring my stuff up to state-of-the-art standard . |
| 46 | I was drunk at the time , if you must know . |
| 47 | But for all that he plays no part in the ancestry of my colleague , on whose behalf I was alerted at the mention of his name . |
| 48 | Finally I was enrolled at the Royal College of Physicians . |
| 49 | I was learning at a place where we hired the computer 's time and it was cheaper to get a night run . |
| 50 | I was involved at an abstract level with the struggles of the Vietnamese and the Palestinians far away , or the miners ( in 1974 ) nearer home . |
| 51 | I spect he was pretty angry about t tell him I was living at the house with Marie . |
| 52 | I did [ think of myself as a cabbage ] when I was living at the other place doing all that washing by hand … |
| 53 | I 'm sorry , I think I 've forgotten what I was thinking at the time , erm |
| 54 | I was met at the door by the commander of the bodyguard , who introduced me to the domestic staff — the cooks , the maids , the rest of the bodyguard and the gardener . |
| 55 | As a child I was kept at a distance from her , because of rifts in the family . |
| 56 | White Face materialized out of thin air when I was drinking at a pool . |
| 57 | I was working at a hospital in the out-patients ' department recently and when I was leaving at the end of my shift one day , I saw the following message pinned on the notice board , obviously from an extremely irate patient : ‘ Time is a great healer . |
| 58 | Only I was passing at the time . |
| 59 | On 29 July , while I was teaching at a secondary school near London , I got married to . |
| 60 | Whilst David was continuing his studies with me , I was teaching at the Dance Centre in Covent Garden , which is an agency . |