Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'd been having to dig my nails into the palm of my hand very hard in order to stop the tears streaming , which I could n't let happen as I was to speak next and needed to keep steady . |
| 32 | I was playing last night Got ta learn this album I used to have ages and ages ago fucking . |
| 33 | ‘ I was approached last year by Lawrence Barnett [ chairman ] to sort things out . |
| 34 | I was sat next to an Army wife of about my own age . |
| 35 | The bloke that I was sat next did n't take any either . |
| 36 | Now , my theory that I was proposing last week about preferential parental investment in sexy sons or little boys who showed phallic behaviour , is a consequence of the Trivers Willard principle , because basically what it says is that little boys who advertised , as it were , in their childhood , evidence of their own adult reproductive success by precocious sexuality towards the women of the family and aggression towards the males , might be rewarded by preferential parental investment , a Trivers Willard effect in other words , and if , when they grew up , those oedipal sexy sons were in fact more reproductively successful , then the result would be a kind of self-perpetuating cycle of parental investment in oedipal sons who then grew up to be more reproductively successful than non-oedipal sons and , and so on . |
| 37 | You knew before you shut your door in my face last night that I was having second thoughts ! ’ |
| 38 | COLBERT : I was sitting next to Bob Mcknight , and five seconds before it happened I said to Bob , the only person who can fuck this up is Tom Carroll . |
| 39 | I was sitting next to Professor St John Goth , who 's a long established member of the Circle , and often lectures at our meetings . |
| 40 | I was sitting next to Alex chatting . |
| 41 | I was sitting next to Mrs Gorman , and as usual Mrs Gorman was being very bright and amusing . |
| 42 | mm , cos listen to what I mean , Ollie goes , I was sitting next to Ollie yeah and she looks at my thingy , yeah , and she goes that 's what , you 've missed out three , so I sat there writing all the nec numbers , yeah , and miss goes the other table and I 'm like oh come on Carla hurry up and do the numbers inside , and I missed , I just could n't , I could n't catch up |
| 43 | I kept in touch after that , obviously , and continued to badger him and send him new material until I was signed last August . |
| 44 | Because no matter what suspicions the various crooks might have about my purpose , no one knew where I was going next . |
| 45 | I was wondering last night if it might be the hand of fate . |
| 46 | Well I think the the er other point I was making last week was that erm this whole are of learning theory is erm y'know a very traditional area . |
| 47 | ‘ He asked me what I was doing last night , and then one or two questions about mother . ’ |
| 48 | That 's what I was doing last night . |
| 49 | The stuff I was doing last night . |
| 50 | No , for that job I was doing last night . |
| 51 | I was lying third . |
| 52 | Then I felt my sleeve being tugged downwards and my feet swept from under me and suddenly I was lying next to Werewolf . |
| 53 | That 's what I was quoted last week . |
| 54 | I was standing next to , and we both are not exactly strong . |
| 55 | I , I was standing next to her , I was going Jesus Christ ! |
| 56 | he deliberately , I was standing next to him , he was just leaning on me . |