Example sentences of "i was [verb] [adv prt] with " in BNC.

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1 Can I just ask a question to start with because I was messing around with the camera and was it that he ha that he had no private pension policies at all ?
2 They 're watching t Oh I , I was messing about with Tony so I , I flashed me skirt , flashed me knees .
3 So anyway , I did n't even hear anymore what he said after that , after he said this like so I was messing about with Graham
4 That 's why I was messing about with the .
5 I was padded up with me mate and she says I just went weird .
6 I was wadded along with my fellows into a container and then — darkness .
7 I was sent on with a minute to go and never touched the ball .
8 I was fed up with English filmmakers who seemed to think that they were automatically entitled to have a film industry ’ Michael Powell has remarked of the situation in the late 1930s .
9 I was fed up with the European promoters who seemed obsessed by the American sprinters .
10 ‘ I decided I was fed up with having to go out on the road all the time in order to pay a mortgage on a house I never spent any time in ! ’ he told me .
11 I was fed up with Durham 's sponsors signing has-beens , just for their names , ’ said Raine .
12 I was fed up with the yucky mouldy silicone round the edge and reckoned a proper job should be done on it .
13 I was fed up with her misery and her disapproval .
14 I was fed up with talk of ‘ Architraves ’ and ‘ transoms : ’ The Secretary of the Antiquarian Society fancied himself as an architectural expert and loved the sound of his own voice .
15 You said er , I told , I told him I was fed up with the General Secretary of this union that had n't given us any backing and you said sorry Phil , but I 'm not the General Secretary .
16 ‘ When we were first married , I knew you would have to spend quite a lot of time on your own , when I was tied up with business affairs .
17 I was wandering around with other injured people , including two girls .
18 ‘ The man had died and I was getting on with my life . ’
19 The idea was that when that was done , on a signal I was to open up with the Breda and shoot up the café .
20 When I helped him into bed he said , with some echo of his old authority , that nothing was to change while he was here ; that I was to go on with my work ; that he would teach me to play chess at last ; that he was absolutely thrilled to be out of hospital , and it would be a positive delight to look after himself .
21 And then in between , I was to go round with him , say in the afternoons or some mornings , and he had heard about a fox somewhere .
22 ‘ While we were being taken there , one of the gunmen asked me why I was hanging out with white guys .
23 I was hanging about with older people at that time .
24 Correctly surmising that theirs was the room with the broken bolt hanging from the door , he entered it just as I was catching up with him .
25 Can I say that , when I was interviewed for the job of er , Director , or I was asked along with other applicants , to put forward a er paper presenting my issues and concerns , and I can say to you , equal opportunities was a key one there .
26 ‘ One day I was filling up with petrol when a chap stopped to say he was a member of the Ferrari Owners Club and used to have a car like mine , ’ says John .
27 He brought himself- and me , for I was brimming over with pity for him , always damnable pity — to the edge of tears .
28 a few months back I was bored with myself , and my family , I was playing about with my dog , I started rubbing
29 A week later I was running around with my underpants in my mouth feeling very stupid .
30 And I was dancing round with her , yeah ?
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