Example sentences of "i was [verb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partly , I was n't doing the work because I thought my tutor had decided I was a poof but , more importantly , I was dragging my feet because I was n't keen on the work itself . |
| 2 | For instance , she never specifically said : ‘ Do n't blame your mother for everything ’ , but she made me understand that I was using my mother as an excuse for the fact that I was n't happy a lot of the time . |
| 3 | I was using my car as a weapon . ’ |
| 4 | I was calling her Nan Wendy was calling her my love was calling her Gran and she loved it . |
| 5 | And I was calling her Mrs . |
| 6 | I remember as clear as day , standing talking to Penny and I was calling their plumber , I 'll always remember that and er I was quite took back and Penny said ooh she 's been very good to me |
| 7 | But you dare n't take the risk of trying it on in case I was calling your bluff and would refuse you . |
| 8 | I was kicking your leg , did you feel me I thought oh |
| 9 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 10 | A straw St Bridget 's Cross hung over the door of the dark little room in which I was eating my breakfast next morning . |
| 11 | I was eating my , I was eating my supper when he started |
| 12 | So that 's when I was eating my dinner , when they were going up for the cup and she fell asleep , well you know with the wine in you , here was my eyes all out for the count . |
| 13 | I was eating my tea that afternoon — they would n't let me go too — and I got called over to the Centre [ the prison officers ' operational centre within the prison ] . |
| 14 | So I er , I politely told him what he could do with that , well , I was eating his dinner and I could n't be too rude to him , but erm , you know , when er when , when confronted , I do n't give ground over that kind of thing . |
| 15 | I got in , and as he drove on I was watching his face , fascinated . |
| 16 | ‘ I was watching your face . ’ |
| 17 | I remember enjoying every moment of it especially because I was watching my father . |
| 18 | Yeah it 's amazing you know I was watching my son my son when he was about eleven or twelve practising his signature . |
| 19 | ‘ I was accompanying my nephew , ’ he said then . |
| 20 | I just wanted to know , inside my own head , that I was betraying his trust in me the way he 'd betrayed mine . |
| 21 | Now came the difficult part : telling Patterson I was borrowing his car . |
| 22 | ‘ Why , Mr Stevens , I should think I was addressing your father . |
| 23 | I was chasing my hat and crashed into him — and we 've already had a collision at St Petrock 's ! |
| 24 | At the same time I can remember going along to clubs , like the Vortex , and being slightly hassled because I was kissing my boyfriend . |
| 25 | I was blinded What time are we gon na chuck them out tonight ? |
| 26 | I was to see her years later , and talk much of Eliot , they were fellow-citizens of St Louis , Missouri , and almost of the same age . |
| 27 | As I panted into Stranraer Gardens , following the no-hopers rule for cross-country — never run in a straight line — I was flailing my arms left and right and zigzagging at an angle of about ten degrees to the horizontal . |
| 28 | Before I knew what I was doing I was slitting my wrists . |
| 29 | to pick him he 's , he went out , he said I said to them , you 'll have to wait a minute my mother ai n't been very well , and I was ironing his shirt , he wo n't nothing to do |
| 30 | I was airing his sheets , you see , darling . |