Example sentences of "i was [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if I was to ask the same question throughout industry today the answer would be very different . |
| 2 | And I was born the same day . |
| 3 | He himself would put the fear of God into the professors of Königsberg and Breslau ; I was to do the same thing in Danzig . |
| 4 | ‘ I was thinking the same about you . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I was thinking the same thing , ’ David said calmly . |
| 6 | I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them . |
| 7 | But when I got older , well I was getting the same pay as the regular men then . |
| 8 | But I was asked the same thing after Duncton Wood came out , I said I 'd never do another and I 've written five more . |
| 9 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 10 | Being sure I was on course did not convince me I was going the same way as everyone else . |
| 11 | I was making the most of this opportunity . |
| 12 | I was doing the most of the peeling potatoes and getting the coal and the firewood . |
| 13 | As a film like Scandal , which dealt with the Profumo affair , might make young people go back and check out more about what was happening in the early sixties , so I was doing the same in terms of the fifties . |
| 14 | ‘ I just felt I was doing the same old thing , week after week , month after month . |
| 15 | Although I was doing the same kind of of erm work . |
| 16 | In a small way , perhaps , from the inside of an ethnic minority , I was doing the same . |
| 17 | I had found myself staggering from one situation to the next … we decided then that I was doing the same thing wrong you see , and so we looked at the actual practice … |