Example sentences of "i [was/were] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | MY WIFE and I were walking in the Lake District when I slipped and fell . |
| 2 | Miss Maton died in 1923 and about a year later I remember that my friends and I were playing in the street when there was a sudden shout from a young man . |
| 3 | One Saturday evening , when I had been apprenticed to Joe for four years , he and I were sitting in the pub , with some of the villagers , listening to Mr Wopsle . |
| 4 | One night my mother , my father and I were sitting in the dining room . |
| 5 | And I always think back to the er the time I think Edmund and I were sitting in the back garden here and deciding that we 'd go off and join the paratroopers |
| 6 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 7 | " I was looking in the window of that Primrose Cottage . |
| 8 | Good , fine , I 'm not surprised , I was looking in the wrong rate book was n't I ? |
| 9 | And I was looking in the yesterday and they sell them in You Ca n't Go Wrong for five ninety nine for Robert . |
| 10 | Cassock and surplice , a black cassock and white surplice once I told you that my grandmother was once living with us , she used to delight in washing my surplice and ironing it up except me when I was singing in the choir , I did n't take a , the treble solos , that was after the choir used to sister of ours at least oh twenty men , and as many lads and youths the as I say Johnny was in the choir there was er the two brothers and there was Dick was a incense boy and his father was a manager to go in the , he used to have a red cassock and surplice , but he used to Dick 's dad was the incense swinger and they used to go about swinging incense and that , I do n't suppose they do that at all now , but er your first job as a choirboy was to pump the organ it , have you ever been in the church ? |
| 11 | The noise had an insistent quality — like a small animal gnawing away at something or gathering food and stopping every few minutes to listen , as hard as I was listening in the dark of Mr Marr 's house . |
| 12 | I tell you our night really told you One night I was standing , we were getting ready to go out to do a show and I was ironing in the kitchen and it were about six o'clock at night and all of a sudden Rudy come flying at me like this all over me , I thought Christ not this time of bleeding night ! |
| 13 | Meanwhile I was fainting in the back seat , just thinking of what that tight black mid-thigh skirt concealed . |
| 14 | 1 While I was digging in the sand I found a strange gimble. 2 Carl and Jayne are both beamish , but Mike is the beamishest person I known . |
| 15 | At one time , when I was touring in the theatre , I can remember simply having tea for breakfast and then going the whole day with nothing , then a tiny snack in the evening . |
| 16 | : I was serving in the Med fleet in HMS Saints sailing to Tobruk . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd just finished editing The Dairy Book of Home Management , which eventually sold 1.5m copies , and I was living in the Kings Road . ’ |
| 18 | Before I got married I was living in the London Palace and there was something like three hundred and sixty girls there . |
| 19 | For the final two years of his schooling he switched to Kingston College of Further Education , where he became fascinated by British political history ( ‘ I was living in the nineteenth century , ’ he says ) . |
| 20 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |
| 21 | I was reading in the Sun today that the other girl , what 's her name , her father is a London gangster ! ’ |
| 22 | I was reading in the paper this morning , a chap , he 's a director of a big company in Birmingham , who was the world 's number one football fan , he used to spend about a thousand a year watching football , you know . |
| 23 | I was reading in the , in er , in that paper that you give us , you know , I was reading soaps and that |
| 24 | I mean I was reading in the paper the other day it was on about recycling |
| 25 | I was writing in the context of animal behaviour , but the theorem could apply , of course , to colour , size , shape — to anything . |
| 26 | I looked up from the desk where I was writing in the day book . |
| 27 | Two days later I was staying in the unit with to establish feeding , as his breathing and heart rate were now normal , although he was still quite jaundiced . |
| 28 | I was staying in the police house — they had several police station-houses for CID men staying , instead of going to a hotel . |
| 29 | My problems were : I had a body in the bath right behind me , a girl I 'd known for less than twenty-four hours in a bed in the next room , I was staying in the house of somebody I 'd never met who was currently at a family wedding somewhere north of Karachi and somewhere down the yellow brick road I had to call the cops . |
| 30 | Remember , I was operating in the dark at that time , with no precise information on my enemy , no positive place of attack , motivated by what I sensed or feared . |