Example sentences of "i [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were just looking at this . |
| 2 | I were just pretending to him , because I ai n't really full of beans . |
| 3 | ‘ The little lady and I were just talkin' about where to have dinner . ’ |
| 4 | And the manager the un the the deputy met me he says , And I were just going down main road at nighttime as me dad were coming up . |
| 5 | I were just talking about you to Maggie then . |
| 6 | I were only saying to a lady this morning about ee aye our Emma used to come to Leyland with a a wad of ten shilling notes new and we 'd go to er Southport would n't we ? |
| 7 | I must have accepted the prospect of this baby with a vengeance , if I were seriously thinking of knitting as a desirable occupation . |
| 8 | I do n't know why , but it seemed important to me to establish that we have n't any fuse-boxes ( and indeed we have n't ) , but she would n't allow this and was quite stern with me about it as if I were deliberately lying to her . |
| 9 | I was practically screaming with frustration . |
| 10 | But I 'm sure that that was what I was somehow looking for . |
| 11 | ‘ Peggy , the only bird ah want the noo ( I was again reverting to the vernacular ) is you . ’ |
| 12 | I was again walking along the length of the building and through another archway into an area with yet two more large windows and another fireplace built into the opposite side of the chimney from the one below , with a raised slate hearth . |
| 13 | Now when I was away staying with my cousins |
| 14 | I was clearly going to be on the phone for a long time . |
| 15 | I was busily listening to these subliminal hisses of disapproval when Alison Kraemer appeared at my elbow . |
| 16 | ’ I was mostly reporting to that woman leader , Sergia ’ |
| 17 | So for the rest of the month I was in charge of wages , piece rates , training , negotiations and all the rest of it , and then one day a month I was regularly calling on the same customers in Bloomsbury and I was collecting money , selling the goods and so on , which I think was a very important part of my continued training . |
| 18 | But I do n't expect you to believe I was simply looking for a good time . |
| 19 | erm Darwin says in the origin , and I 'm sorry I ca n't read it to you , but I was desperately looking for the quotation in the origin before I can and I could n't find it but I assure you it 's there erm in which he remarks that in all probability the periods of time during which species are not changing is probably very large compared with those periods when change is taking place . |
| 20 | ‘ I was desperately waiting for the magic word ‘ Cut ’ so I could attach myself to the wires before falling , ’ he says . |
| 21 | ‘ I was even thinking about how we would play against West Ham . |
| 22 | I was even thinking of of |
| 23 | I was managing to put our disastrous marriage behind me , and I was even getting to the stage where I could look forward to the future . |
| 24 | I was just looking for a reference |
| 25 | ‘ I guess I threw myself at you because of everything that had happened between Jonathan and myself ; I guess I was just looking for a diversion and you happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 26 | Yeah I was just looking for a memory jogger here , I just could n't remember what it was |
| 27 | Oh I was just looking for that . |
| 28 | I was just looking for something . |
| 29 | It was just I I was just looking at there them down there . |
| 30 | I have n't got any with me , and I was just looking at graphs for someone else earlier . |