Example sentences of "i was [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea was I was using them as sub-headings originally but then people were kept y'know slowing d it 's erm very hard to work out whether what you actually want is a good detailed set of notes . |
| 2 | ‘ Never once , during our association , did they guess that I was using them to further my revenge against the Wolfkings . |
| 3 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 4 | Or maybe , the other ends got hot while I was a-tapping them on the anvil . ’ |
| 5 | There we are , I was hiding them with my hand . |
| 6 | ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best . |
| 7 | ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best . |
| 8 | She told Cathy she would pass on the eggs but would like croissants and coffee , and presently I was bringing them to her as she sat with eyes demurely downwards , studiously ignoring my existence . |
| 9 | Yeah , you normally write them in a straight line but when , when they were numbers I was writing them under each other cos it was easier to add . |
| 10 | Well this is , this is why I thought perhaps erm I did n't want to ask Jim too much or he would know I was buying them for him you see . |
| 11 | but do n't get me wrong after a while I just gave up and I was getting them in bouts and I was getting through the Bonjela and the |
| 12 | and I was telling them about that Indian or Asian doctor at the City Hospital in the Maternity unit . |
| 13 | Coming back to the council last year , some time in May last year , and er I was telling them about the noise and the situation , at the time . |
| 14 | I was telling them at school . |
| 15 | ‘ Me wages are in there and I was taking them to me ma . |
| 16 | I have to pay 80p for one piece of Vallis , Cabomba etc at any of the fish centres in this part of the world and £1.50 each if I was to buy them in the little pots . |
| 17 | that 's why I was asking them for , I just want to make it plain my Lord |
| 18 | I was hitting them on the head and they were all falling on the floor . |
| 19 | I got her a pair of tough brogues from the plastic bag and all the time I was putting them on her she was looking at me with a vacant stare , her eyes still very wide , the pupils enormous . |
| 20 | I was putting them round the back and sat thinking about it and I said well we ai n't got no peat , so we had to rush over to Hetford and bought some very good peat , and erm , by the time I got back and started digging hole for them to go in |
| 21 | Gaitskell became excited at the prospect and instructed me with great firmness that as soon as I had received the ‘ discovered ’ documents I was to show them to no one but to come straight to him , so that he should be the first person to know who the culprit was or what information was available that would lead to the culprit 's identity . |
| 22 | I mean , all I use I mean , if I was making them for somebody I would use about four or five layers and then I would put a piece of lace of braid or something at the top |
| 23 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |