Example sentences of "i was [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I relaxed as far as I could , and short of thumping my chest like Tarzan , hoped I was emanating nothing but lovely rude health . |
| 2 | more through magazines than I did at school , because in school I was taught nothing about pleasure , it was all very biological with a diagram of the male and the female , exactly what happened , there was nothing about er , sexually transmitted diseases , pleasure or abortion , contraception , nothing mentioned , only the mere basics . |
| 3 | It was there a bit because I was hiding something from my mother . |
| 4 | It would be very strange if I stood here saying do n't use a linear script use thought patterns and yet I was reading everything off a linear script would n't it ? |
| 5 | It is funny , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , how reluctant I was to say anything like that here in the first few days , how instinctively I felt it might endanger the entire project , how everything might collapse around me the moment I said that . |
| 6 | I , I was taking one after breakfast , one after lunch and one after dinner . |
| 7 | ‘ I always fancied my chances of playing against Dublin and so it worked out , but I was taking nothing for granted . |
| 8 | I was expecting something like that . ’ |
| 9 | I thought I was talking somebody in |
| 10 | ‘ I was bitten lots of times by mosquitoes , once just above my navel , where my shirt buttons were bursting open . |
| 11 | I was putting something in … something alive ! |
| 12 | I was taken into the , my wife died in January of nineteen eighty nine , I was taken into the local psychiatric hospital at in the December of nineteen eighty nine and I was told I was gon na be given an experimental drug , I was told nothing about it or any anything to do with any of the side effects , I I was in th I was on Prozac for about four days , I suffered horrendous side effects , shaking and one thing and another . |
| 13 | " Now , I was saying something about the fish-shop on Lyons Dock . |
| 14 | Oh I was saying something about that |
| 15 | I did not respond , for I was feeling nothing but astonishment . |
| 16 | ‘ I was doing nothing of the sort ! |
| 17 | ‘ I was doing nothing of the kind , ’ she denied crossly , turning to face him . |
| 18 | Except , that , except that of course I was doing everything for everybody . |
| 19 | So in some way I must have passed on my fear to my children , even though I thought I was doing everything in my power to avoid doing so . |
| 20 | I felt relieved once I 'd started because at last I felt I was doing something about my life . |
| 21 | My family was very very supportive my mum was very happy that I was doing something for myself later on in my life it will help me very much and my husband was very very good . |
| 22 | However , one afternoon perhaps two weeks after our conversation in my pantry , I was doing something in the library when Miss Kenton came in and said : |
| 23 | And er and I was telling everyone I said , Oh I 'm going to and I was flinging everything over the you know . |