Example sentences of "i was [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was trundling out the obvious . ’ |
| 2 | I was looking around , seeing where to go , when a black man took my arm . |
| 3 | ‘ I needed this piece and as I was looking around I saw exactly what I needed on this motor bike so I took it and now these guys want to kill me . ’ |
| 4 | Yes I was looking around for your dog |
| 5 | Larry Cummins recollected , ‘ I was looking out of the window while seated at my navigator 's table , and I saw a sizeable hole suddenly appear in the left wing . |
| 6 | One Sunday morning , when I was looking out of the window , I saw Mme Guérigny leave church and walk from the rue de Fleuve along the rue Victorie towards Bluot 's , and return with a box nicely wrapped and tied with gold string . |
| 7 | Well I was looking out the other side cos I was trying to work out where Glynis lived . |
| 8 | Course , I was looking out the window and I know he took I picked it out and it I looked again , there 's another one in there , course she 's only getting out the bath put them in a bowl like I was ! |
| 9 | And I was looking out through the door and you have n't got five minutes longer . |
| 10 | As I was looking in , I could see the Queen , surrounded by her lords and ladies . |
| 11 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
| 12 | About twelve years later , when I was looking back on that meeting with Dana , I wrote the following poem : |
| 13 | Instead I was looking down the quay to where a pathetically thin girl was walking beside a smartly dressed woman . |
| 14 | And then the whole thing swivelled round in my head , and I was looking down the same chimney from the top , and nothing was about to stop me falling down it . |
| 15 | I felt I was looking down into my own grave . |
| 16 | It was late and I was looking down at Chung Kuo , wondering what lay ahead . |
| 17 | I was looking down at my plate , licking my finger and picking off the last few crumbs , transferring them to my mouth . |
| 18 | I was looking down at her , brown knees drawn up to her chin and the open V of her shirt showing the round of her breasts , even the pinking of the nipple circles . |
| 19 | Structural maintenance er yes erm yes down the bottom I was looking down erm and and we are proposing a significantly lower er cut on both the the officers and proposal there that the other er er that the other er er that the other parties . |
| 20 | I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional . |
| 21 | I was acting about . |
| 22 | Hello there , erm I was calling in to sort of object to the erm whole presentation of recent events in the , in the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | Can I just ask a question to start with because I was messing around with the camera and was it that he ha that he had no private pension policies at all ? |
| 24 | Anyway , one day I was messing about playing hide and seek , hiding from the officers , and they put me on report . |
| 25 | They 're watching t Oh I , I was messing about with Tony so I , I flashed me skirt , flashed me knees . |
| 26 | So anyway , I did n't even hear anymore what he said after that , after he said this like so I was messing about with Graham |
| 27 | That 's why I was messing about with the . |
| 28 | I appreciate that in that respect I was drifting out of order . |
| 29 | Just after I 'd finished at college , I went along to someone 's party and I remember telling this girl who I was chatting up that I played bass . |
| 30 | guess what I was watching down there , ah P O R K Y S |