Example sentences of "i was [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I knew it could n't be the murder weapon , ’ he gravely told Wickham , ‘ because I was using it on Friday evening , hours after MacQuillan was found dead . ’ |
| 2 | Anyway , I was using it behind his back . |
| 3 | In the dream , I was singing it in all me funny voices , from the squeaky one to the gruff one and it was a pile of bollocks . |
| 4 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 5 | PS Stoke just won thier first game under Joe Jordan … so what ? well I was watching it on telly , had to come to work , & had to find something to do ! |
| 6 | Yeah and I was watching it on This Morning and what it is it 's because most things you 've got in your kitchen like myself are all tested on animals and they do n't label it |
| 7 | Six years later she remembers , vividly , a match against Fiona Anderson in the Scottish Championship at North Berwick which was won by Gillian Stewart : " I had been listening to " The Mikado " before I set out and I was humming it in my head all the way round . |
| 8 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 9 | I was weathering the winter and believed that if there was anything in my lung , then at the very worst I was holding it at bay . |
| 10 | I was holding it in such an awkward way that fingers eventually protested . |
| 11 | I was given it at the end of a stormy course on race relations given to staff at Hen don Police College . |
| 12 | While I was thinking it over the ‘ phone rang . |
| 13 | To make sure that I was reading it to Bev right , but then you understand it 's a Connie letter do n't you ? |
| 14 | I was reading it in the paper I thought oh I wonder if is . |
| 15 | Oh , I was writing it from the board actually . |
| 16 | Because I was writing it in R E |
| 17 | And it ended up I was buying it for less money than what I was paying monthly for rent . |
| 18 | Erm I 'm not , well I was boiling it for this |
| 19 | But I was advised to imagine I was telling it to a good friend and not worry about what other people might think . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd hoped for so much from that class since I was taking it at an American university , but — ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I was expecting it to be bad , but nothing prepared me for this ! ’ |
| 22 | Well I was expecting th Well I was expecting it to be the church hall you see . |
| 23 | I was keeping it for cleaning the car . |
| 24 | When it was dry , I edged around the unpainted border bands with masking tape very carefully , because now I was applying it onto the painted surface . |
| 25 | So , in the end , I was mixing it with cocaine . |
| 26 | ‘ I felt I did everything right , like the simple things of making the right contact , but I was striking it into the wind and it seemed to tail off at the last minute . ’ |
| 27 | Well , I was putting it on the foil and I thought : ‘ This could kill me ’ , but it was that strong the urge to have it , I did n't care . |
| 28 | And er I was showing it to chap next to me , tall chap , he took a fatherly interest in showing me how to work you know when foreman was out and er ooh he said there 's a bloody Taffy . |
| 29 | No I was pulling it through this , that 's what I was doing . |
| 30 | I said to her , I was saying it to Mum earlier , if that was me with a family , I 'd wake up to the fact that you 're pa , I , I I , there 's too many here . |