Example sentences of "was [v-ing] my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once or twice I started swinging very badly , but as I was using my only hand to stop myself bleeding to death , I was unable to do anything about it . |
| 2 | When I was a TV newscaster , I was enjoying my new-found fame , and signing some autographs up in Manchester , when an old lady said , ‘ Who 's he ? ’ 'He reads the news , ’ someone told her . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I was with him when the call came in to do the video so I was listening to the call , although I was minding my own business . |
| 4 | My future husband was becoming my whole world , and more than that , my hope of heaven . |
| 5 | One of my main preoccupations that particular evening was keeping my right bra strap out of sight , underneath my skimpy top . |
| 6 | When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check . |
| 7 | ’ I heard little else because now I was shouting my own piece about Christianity . |
| 8 | ‘ I told him that whilst he was dating my own sister it was quite out of the question . |
| 9 | I was paying my own way , sleeping on the beach at night , leaving my backpack in a kibbutz during the day , and the research went pretty well . |
| 10 | Such as that I was trying to use the priesthood as an escape from my personal frustration , that I was dramatizing my own situation , that I was proud and vain , that my idea of Catholicism was up the creek . |
| 11 | But er , in my later as I was rearing my two children erm I , I think I used to spend mine . |
| 12 | I was drunk , okay , but I was getting my second wind by now . |
| 13 | Another early memory was getting my first train set . |
| 14 | I was doing my four hours on and eight off , and as a supernumerary was given a variety of jobs . |
| 15 | ‘ I was doing my usual Tuesday clean for you , Chris , when the phone rang . |
| 16 | I remember a painful occasion in 1923 when I was doing my usual thing , kicking a tennis ball into the U-shape formed by the three walls . |
| 17 | I remember , when I was doing my lifesaving certificates , that one of the very first things that we learnt , was that you have to , as the life sa , the life saver , you had to be in charge of the situation . |
| 18 | Went to the Royal Academy when I was doing my 'O' Levels , it was a Jackson follow up it was about , ambulance was about twelve foot by twelve foot , it was literally splodges of paint all over the fucking place , it was horrible , you can actually buy them at the Royal Academy , you ca n't buy them at , but he was asking a hundred thousand pounds for it , I could n't believe it , a trained monkey could of fucking painted that |
| 19 | So I wondered what chance I had of outstaying Lebanese men who had picked up their first Kalashnikov aged six , or the Vietnamese man who had seen his mother raped before going on to kill his first Cambodian at the age when I was doing my Common Entrance . |
| 20 | I was doing my third week as a young crime reporter and had just about finished my second and last story of the day when the phone rang . |
| 21 | Not that I cared , for I was doing my own fuming . |
| 22 | And erm =ut er th that that was quite a quite a good school , quite a modern school but I I 'd er I 'd er I was n't able to stay there long because I was approaching my thirteenth birthday you see than . |
| 23 | I was letting my own hair grow too . |
| 24 | I was happy that I was having my own baby but sometimes I used to cry for nothing and I was easily upset . |
| 25 | We were in the sports hall and she flew right up on to the top of the climbing frame at the far end from where I was giving my little lecture . |
| 26 | ‘ I was taking my blood-sugar level when you arrived , ’ she said . |
| 27 | I was creating my own mythology . ’ |
| 28 | I was fighting my own terrors in public , but others wanted to do it more gently . |
| 29 | Not merely that , I was putting my strongest accent on the syllable that was n't ! |
| 30 | I was making my first inroads into a superb specimen of the amber fluid when Sally walked in . |