Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Late last year I was getting terrible stomach pains . |
| 32 | Frankly , dear readers , I was getting bored waiting for the graphs to get to the point of maximum excitement . |
| 33 | ‘ I was getting wet chatting on the pavement , anyway . ’ |
| 34 | I was getting sick taste |
| 35 | On retirement from the Army & Navy Stores I was appointed managing director of Hatchards , Piccadilly , and Miss Riley came as my secretary and continued there in a full or part time capacity for many years . |
| 36 | At the age of 34 I was appointed Chief Executive of Warwickshire County Council , an organisation with 16,000 staff and a budget of £250 million . |
| 37 | He gave me an odd look as if I was telling strange stories . |
| 38 | Now if I were to suggest to you that in some gay bars the ‘ lads ’ pop off to the toilets that number of times to indulge themselves , then you might think I was repeating lurid propaganda put about by the puritan league . |
| 39 | I sometimes felt that I was taking unfair advantage of the family 's need to talk through their problems with a sympathetic outsider . |
| 40 | Twice I 've picked up goods on a shelf marked reduced and then found , because of the bar codes , I was charged full price at the pay-out desk . |
| 41 | Again I was expecting military style spick and span . |
| 42 | When I was cycling lovely summer afternoon , well er four i , about four o'clock and er there was three farmers round a big sign , in in there and tha that 's where I went up cycled . |
| 43 | I was anticipating severe disapproval from that quarter , because my father was bemused , to say the least , by my refusal to settle down into a job with a future , as he put it . |
| 44 | Apparently not only had I collapsed on stage last night , but I was having intravenous chemotherapy between shows , sobbing and grimacing in agony in my dressing room . |
| 45 | Since I was asking young women to talk freely about a highly personal and intimate area of their lives , I thought it only fair that I should also tell my own story , and set out some of my reasons for my interest in the subject . |
| 46 | I was so high on adrenalin that for all I knew I was talking utter rubbish . |
| 47 | I was paid good money for 3½ years to do something about the problems of North Shields and a particular component of doing something was describing what things were like , giving an account of how they had come to be like this , and attempting to understand why the process had happened as it had . |
| 48 | By the time I was 16 , I was winning major contests , amassing a few quid in the bank as a part-time model and walking as though I had a brush handle up my arse . |
| 49 | Said I was selling double glazing or something . |
| 50 | Said I was distracting other motorists . |
| 51 | Over the years I was to meet Irish women who , unable to stand the barrages of racism , distorted and changed their accents in order to pass . |
| 52 | I had n't realized how much I was missing female friendship . |
| 53 | The show was given before an invited audience of some 1,200 music fans each week , and as a visiting newspaperman I was afforded special treatment . |
| 54 | I was offered post-natal support having been to some NCT ante-natal classes . |
| 55 | I was offered immediate delivery on a Corvette ZR-1 for £30,500 ( manufacturer 's list price ) . |
| 56 | In it I was crossing Old Carrots , coming towards the house , a stick in one hand , the other pushed into my hair . |
| 57 | On his return to the Works , the horseman was challenged by Mason , as to the reason the horses were tethered in this location , ‘ I was took short sir ’ he said ‘ Oh ’ , replied Mason : ‘ It looked as though you were thirsty ! ! — do n't let it happen again' . |
| 58 | I was going good grief , she goes make her sick if it kills me . |
| 59 | I was lucky , I could afford to do it because I was working full time as a youth training officer . |
| 60 | This time I was making hot pants and rainbow striped jumpers . |