Example sentences of "i was [verb] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 2 | I was determined to carry on as normally as I could . ’ |
| 3 | But I was determined to carry on and won a full scholarship to the Escuela Normal , the teachers ' training school . |
| 4 | He had been secretary of the BRS and when he went on furlough I was asked to take on his duties . |
| 5 | And after Mass , accompanied by great hand shaking I was asked to pass on thanks to the Christians in Salford for their support but mostly great thanks for sharing our priest with them . |
| 6 | The matters I was asked to advise on occupied my attention , and a great number of files , for a very considerable length of time . |
| 7 | After all that I was going to live on … alone … to write the ‘ Memoirs ’ … to listen to Mozart in Salzburg . |
| 8 | I 'm , I 'm certainly as I was going to come on to explain and the way you will see ourselves working , is not people who sit in the Town Hall and just turn out reports , I mean the kind of work we do and the way we work means that were actually very much involved in the community groups , but I mean if it was , if it was thought to be an issue that we needed to have greater community involvement , i.e. to resurrecting that forum then that 's something that , you know , we may need to address , but I never saw it as operating like that anyway , I mean I saw it as it 's almost like in a cabinet of members mainly . . |
| 9 | The sickening that I was making a mess of the first real pitch of the first real pitch of IV± , and that I 'd have to take my sack off if I was going to stay on , swept over me . |
| 10 | However , by August , when it was obvious that there was no family accommodation to be found in town , I was forced to take on a croft cottage about seven miles to the north of Stornoway on the Eye Peninsula , known locally as the Point district . |
| 11 | Strangely , it was decided that a repeat investigation was not required and I was allowed to go on caring for the patient throughout her stay . |