Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were weighing up the value of the frame |
| 2 | Every Saturday morning , while I was setting up the barrow , Mr Salmon used to disappear off to the Whitechapel synagogue leaving his wife to run the shop . |
| 3 | ‘ When I was setting up the Fine Chemicals Manufacturing Organization [ FCMO ] in the early '80s , there was no doubt quality was the main way to compete more effectivey and raise performance . |
| 4 | At one point in 1987 I was bowling up the M6 talking to a colleague in London on my ‘ hands-off ’ Cellnet phone — it had a microphone in front of me on the visor . |
| 5 | Only a few weeks after returning from playing with polar bears in Spitsbergen , I was soaking up the sun in the Seychelles . |
| 6 | Except for a small diversion and nibble some bits of lamb when I was cutting up the meat lunchtime , and to try and serving of it . |
| 7 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
| 8 | I was an East End boy myself ; I was brought up the hard way . |
| 9 | The other day , one lunchtime in fact , I was walking up the Farringdon Road . |
| 10 | No , I was walking up the ramps and it was ripped out of my hand actually . |
| 11 | Barnes added : ‘ Being on the same pitch as that other bloke Barnes would be a dream because only two years ago I was putting up the nets on Sunday mornings for my hospital team . ’ |
| 12 | I borrowed fifty P off her the oth , I was going up the school , and I only had four fifty for the I needed fifty P but I did n't have enough change like . |
| 13 | I believe I had the same two horses in that wagon ; and I was coming up the Bungay road past Mr Charlie Skinner 's , and the yardman let them cows out to water , d'ye see , like they allus do every morning after they had milking done . |
| 14 | Suddenly I was climbing up the long ladder of the North pier , the rucksack being roped afterwards . |
| 15 | But I was beading up the Dale , climbing steadily with the engine pulling against the rising ground , then quite suddenly the fog thinned to a shimmering silvery mist and was gone . |