Example sentences of "i was [v-ing] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That evening while I was strolling by the sea , I felt some small twinge of sadness that I could not possess such physical belongings . |
| 2 | Last Monday night , in a mood of deep depression , I was sitting by an open window , praying for a little peace and happiness in my dark life . |
| 3 | This day , I was sitting by an old lady , almost as old as I am now , I suppose . |
| 4 | When I was sitting by the pool on holiday , I met a four-year-old girl called Amy . |
| 5 | One night , about a year after the escaped convicts had been caught , I was sitting by the kitchen fire , writing a letter to Joe . |
| 6 | I was going by a brief statement made by the officer which indicated that it expired on the thirty first of March . |
| 7 | And they 'd call again later , which was why I was working by a single-bulb desk lamp , quickskimming the liquid and document overflow from my filing cabinets . |
| 8 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 9 | ‘ But I loved it and I loved singing and so I was performing by the age of four . |
| 10 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 11 | In this dream I was standing by a river watching a man in swimming trunks caught in the downward surge of a waterfall or weir . |
| 12 | ‘ I was standing by the graveside and one of the Kavanagh sisters had said to Helen Moloney , Katherine 's sister : ‘ It 's perfectly all right to use Patrick 's grave . |
| 13 | Arthur Nicholls was sitting by her bed , and I was standing by the door . |