Example sentences of "i was [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was five-thirty in the morning , and when I finally got to sleep I was hating those birds . |
| 2 | Stockholm-based DJ Dr Alban — who has shot to No 4 with It 's My Life admits : ‘ I was drilling this guy 's tooth when all of a sudden blood started spurting everywhere . |
| 3 | Cos I was using that issue at that time , but we always make the proviso that if things change , you may have to alter your mind about where your money 's placed . |
| 4 | Then he said , ‘ If I was to advertise this job how likely would you be to apply for it ? ’ , and suddenly the hairs prickled on the back of my neck , because I knew he was serious . |
| 5 | ‘ I was eating some gnocchi with this Italian — I did n't say nookey . ’ |
| 6 | I was watching that film and thinking of her . |
| 7 | ‘ I was watching that nun talking to you — it seems to have given you quite a turn . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah , well when I was typing that bit — I actually said originally except Lorimer . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Later I was to see this body investigating a syllabus elsewhere . |
| 12 | I was fired some years after the War after an altercation with Hymie . |
| 13 | I was counting these pages last night and gave up at forty-two . |
| 14 | I was drawing these pictures in my head of walking across a tightrope and falling into a chasm . |
| 15 | And I was reaching some conclusions about the choice that Gharr had given me . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | I 'd be concerned as to whether I was wearing more layers of clothing than the other women , and whether anyone had noticed . |
| 19 | J.B. I was wearing this jumper . |
| 20 | ‘ If I thought I was causing any pain to the fish I would n't go fishing and I think all anglers feel that way , ’ he says . |
| 21 | ‘ The last time I went to see a specialist about my knee , I was ready to pack it in if he 'd told me I was facing another year out . |
| 22 | We knew the Germans were still sentimental about Christmas , and I was given several days leave . |
| 23 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
| 24 | I was given some advice about you — advice which I took against my better judgement , but it seems that advice was wrong . " |
| 25 | After that , Mr Dance went away and I was given some food . |
| 26 | erm the minor awards or discretionary awards as they became and that 's erm , I was given this job and er that 's how it 's built up really over the years . |
| 27 | I got my just desserts from Dad , which made my Mom cry more than me , but all in all I was given enough love and affection to cushion me against all the hardships that were to come . |
| 28 | After another term , I was given more art , and my class-room became an unofficial art room , much to the distress of the caretaker , who accused me of having the dirtiest class-room in the school ! |
| 29 | I feel I could score more goals in Italy if I was given more freedom . |
| 30 | I had , of course , been told by my surgeon that everything he could see he had taken out , On the other hand , I had chosen to explore further on my own and I was learning that cancer has this nasty habit of playing possum . |