Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 I was watching that film and thinking of her .
32 I was watching that nun talking to you — it seems to have given you quite a turn . ’
33 I was watching Central News , Mr was on it and all , like you know that bloke that comes in with his wife with the grey hair that 's always really moody , they have a bottle of Frascati and always drink las
34 Yeah , well when I was typing that bit — I actually said originally except Lorimer .
35 As I was typing these words , a young friend phoned to tell me about the wonderful summer holiday he had just had with his father .
36 Although we are n't a politically active family , I was discussing Prime Minister John Major 's plan for a classless society with my sister Lynn when my niece Natalie said : ‘ Will this mean we wo n't have to go to school any more ? ’
37 I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted .
38 Later I was to see this body investigating a syllabus elsewhere .
39 I was refusing second helpings of food , asking unfailingly for small helpings , and skipping optional meals like tea or Sunday breakfast .
40 I was pursuing two Germans who were attempting to escape . ’
41 I was crouching just feet away , terrified that at any moment one of the massive males would charge into me in the desperate struggle .
42 I was fired some years after the War after an altercation with Hymie .
43 My reply was , ‘ Oh , please promote me — I was fired last time ! ’
44 I was counting these pages last night and gave up at forty-two .
45 The red second hand was coming up to six-thirty , 14 January , and I was counting thirty-eight beats a minute , slower than ever , half the rate of two years ago .
46 It was my lunch hour and I was dressed classic BR Clerk Chic ( beer-stained jacket , tightly knotted skinny tie , crimplene shiny ass pants and shoes with animal tracks and a useful compass in the heel ) .
47 I was drawing these pictures in my head of walking across a tightrope and falling into a chasm .
48 I was made head girl there and captain of the senior hockey team .
49 And I was reaching some conclusions about the choice that Gharr had given me .
50 When , in 1986 , I collected a new Nissan car that a sponsor had bought for me , I was stopped four times in one day because the car was new and , as I had been told frequently enough by the police when I worked on Ealing Community Relations Council , black men ca n't afford new cars .
51 I was born two miles away .
52 When I was born two voices cried from my mouth .
53 My parents were 21 when they wed , and I was born 10 months later .
54 You know , you 're sort of turning the abortion argument on it 's head , that er in an abortion you can say it 's my body , I have a right to decide , and this baby that dies is never going to be there to question that decision , but in this type of situation the baby 's going to be there and okay , you 'll get so many who will just accept their situation and wo n't question it , but you 're always going to get some , or even one who will say I want to know my origins , I want to why I was conceived this way , why I was born this way , why , I have two mothers , that maybe a surrogate mother and a natural mother ?
55 I did over Christmas , I did some Carlton and Alfy down there no , no that 's where I met , I had a Christmas holiday job , couple of days worked for him , I was lugging these vices up
56 I was sprinting full tilt across the playground , with the ‘ bad boy ’ of the year hot on my heels , as it was ‘ boys after girls ’ .
57 I was wearing lime-green chiffon and my mother 's emeralds .
58 Since I was wearing posh garden visiting attire — a pair of thin striped leggings , white leather ballet pumps , a halterneck top , a cute bolero cardigan and dangly earrings — we were only planning to leave the car for some air .
59 I think that because I was wearing dark clothes and not giggling , he saw me as a challenge .
60 I went cold with horror — I was wearing odd shoes !
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