Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kevin and Marie and I were trying to organise them into tribes and wagon trains so we could do the film when Julie sauntered up . |
| 2 | I was dreading telling them — you ca n't imagine . |
| 3 | I was intending to give them to you when you married . |
| 4 | It was like — almost as if I was trying to answer them , in my mind . |
| 5 | Yes , I 've been doing it all evening , I was trying to suppress them all the way through politics lesson . |
| 6 | I was trying to tell them it was n't so hot yesterday and then coming out and out you know . |
| 7 | They clearly believed I was trying to trick them . |
| 8 | I told my father I was trying to get them over to the far side , to the mainland , and that the ones I had to bury , the ones which fell short , were victims of scientific research , but I doubt I really needed this excuse , my father never seemed bothered about the suffering of lower forms of life , despite having been a hippy , and perhaps because of his medical training . |
| 9 | I had , not here , but at home , a very awful experience of somebody camped on to the electricity board , because the power was off , and I was trying to ring them up , and you ca n't get through to somebody who 's camped on to them . |
| 10 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 11 | So I was determined to show them I could take a joke and the next time a big stork went over I pretended not to know what it was called and asked my girl . |
| 12 | I once knitted almost half of the front of a sweater in tuck stitch , continually dropping stitches and muttering at all the time I was spending picking them up . |
| 13 | When interviewed by detectives Manning , who has no previous convictions for sexual or violent offences , confessed , and said : ‘ I was told to rape them . |
| 14 | I was told to promise them wheat as well . |
| 15 | I was told to hammer them down and not give in until I had a sale . |
| 16 | I was going to take them both back with me if you did n't turn up , I was going to get us fish and chips as a treat — ’ |
| 17 | I was going to take them , I was going to take them , and I said , Oh I 'd better , I 'd better see Dr first . |
| 18 | I was going to take them , I was going to take them , and I said , Oh I 'd better , I 'd better see Dr first . |
| 19 | I was going to return them to you . ’ |
| 20 | I was going to chase them . |
| 21 | The questions of who I was , where I had come from and where I was going struck them with confusion . |
| 22 | I was going to show them later . ’ |
| 23 | I suppose this is more of a forewarning than a request for permission , as I was going to send them this week anyway . |
| 24 | I knew very well that I was going to pass them all . |
| 25 | If I had n't got through this time I was going to phone them to check a fault . ’ |
| 26 | Yeah , I was going to get them down . |
| 27 | The Board of Visitors were coming round and I was going to tell them , so that 's why they shipped us out to Askham Grange open prison . |
| 28 | I was going to tell them about Renascia and the Angry Sun and — ’ Fenella trailed into silence , staring at Caspar . |
| 29 | On the contrary , I was coming to dread them . |
| 30 | But then again , if I was forced to do them full-time permanently , maybe I would n't enjoy them as much . |