Example sentences of "i was [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was containing the threats in written words : I was taking control . |
| 2 | When I was considering the applications from Foresterhill and others , I made it clear that I would not approve an application unless I was personally persuaded that the criteria would be met . |
| 3 | It was so good , this telescope , we had , when I was watching the pheasants , in the field , I used to be there all day for the the carrion crows would come along do you see . |
| 4 | As I was watching the sparks bounce off the curved perspex , I suddenly remembered part of a nightmare I 'd never remembered before . |
| 5 | I was watching the gas-flares of oil-rigs maybe hundreds of kilometres away , out in the North Sea . |
| 6 | No , I was watching the watchers . |
| 7 | ‘ It was the Sunday after Wembley , and I was watching the highlights on the television , when Nick rang up in distress saying , ‘ Arthur 's broken his leg ! ’ |
| 8 | It was very hot in the scout hut where I was watching the preparations , so the clay was constantly being sprayed to prevent it drying out . |
| 9 | Later , when I got to Bristol I was prescribed the vitamins and mineral supplements such a diet needed , but to even start to get used to it was a formidable struggle . |
| 10 | Over the following three years , I was to see the keys again and , more often , the deeds of ownership to lost land . |
| 11 | I mean I was picking the competencies off that er display and marketing guidance , interpersonal skills , group work , library and information work and equal opportunities . |
| 12 | All too soon , I was swapping the monkeys and mongooses of the Barbadian backwoods for the rabbits and rodents of Hampstead . |
| 13 | I was counting the chairs and thinking in distress about this odious scandalmonger , this heartless traitor , when I noticed the face of a young woman on the opposite side of the blue-walled coffee bar . |
| 14 | I was counting the forms . |
| 15 | I was meeting the Commissioners |
| 16 | I just like , I just like , I know places , like I was told when I was meeting the girls yesterday , I did n't know what road I was going on I was just telling like , people names of the pubs and luckily this , like , bloke behind me getting on the bus , said oh you need a like , a seventy P or something and that 's when I knew where I was going and everyone 's like telling me where to get off , everyone gestures to me . |
| 17 | Like if Nick was dead and I was remembering the things we 'd done this year , perhaps . |
| 18 | ‘ No time to say really — but we were just about off , and I was holding the books for Dad when he said , ‘ I 'd best get those papers for old Holroyd . ’ |
| 19 | I was wearing the shoes , as ill-fitting as ill-gotten , and the pain in my feet as I pounded the pavements was excruciating . |
| 20 | I scuttered around until I was facing the doors and pulled my legs in just as they opened fully . |
| 21 | The rent was one shilling and tenpence for each dwelling — I remember the amount because Miss Young went to the Church Vestry to pay for both herself and her neighbour each Saturday morning at the same time that I was collecting the pensions for the Almshouse Ladies . |
| 22 | Mr Kaye writes : ‘ Through the intervention of my councillor , Eddie Clein , I was given the names of two officers . |
| 23 | If I was to describe the symptoms that would limit the songs too specifically for the listener . ’ |
| 24 | I was hoping the cops down here would be too busy lining their pockets to pay much attention to the all-points bulletin out on me . |
| 25 | ‘ I was hoping the Swedes would draw and drop a point , but we are still in a strong position . |
| 26 | I was leaving the Commissioners out as far as I could . |
| 27 | Early Whitesnake was good , because I was pushing the limits of a fairly simple kind of music — probably being a bit over-busy through trying to be not just a standard rock bass player . |
| 28 | I was reading the things and I said it was a bigger upstairs is , are bigger than the downstairs . |
| 29 | I was sitting in a friend 's garden where I had gone to seek the Lord , and as I was reading the words of Jesus I knew , with a peace and a joy which passed understanding , the call of God . |
| 30 | ‘ When I was sacked the workers stopped work — they did n't have a bloody ballot . ’ |