Example sentences of "i was [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 2 | In order to do this I decided to work loosely with the oils as if I was using watercolours , thinning with genuine turpentine and allowing colours to bleed into one another . |
| 3 | Yeah , it 's exactly that kind of experience that I think has got me thinking about what I was saying before you came , well before we were just doing the coffee , about the idea of actually starting to draw , well I was calling contracts , but probably it 's more better called agreements , about you know , the theatre will do this , we will do that and |
| 4 | Please to remember I was no longer actually the horse-thief , but I was now at Warboys with the Pathfinder Training Unit and so I was training replacements . |
| 5 | And er , if I was to put entries all the way across the top of this spreadsheet like this , and then , all the way across the bottom of the spreadsheet , do you know how I got to the bottom so quickly , by the way ? |
| 6 | I was eating cakes in the morning before I went to school and for about two years I was dieting , trying one diet or another . |
| 7 | I was n't chewing gum though , I was eating sweets |
| 8 | It does n't seem more than a few months since I was knitting clothes for her dolls — and now — ’ She held up her needles , speared through the left front of a pearly-white matinée jacket . |
| 9 | There I was chucking copies of a certain rival mag into the fire when my father entered the room brandishing the latest copy of ZZAP ! |
| 10 | ‘ I had n't realised I was resuming hostilities ! ’ |
| 11 | M ( I was counting stitches — jumper — expensive French wool ) . |
| 12 | Unaware , Randall was saying urgently : ‘ What would you say if I was to arrange things myself ? |
| 13 | I was about thirty-four when I was made personnel director of the Nobel Division . |
| 14 | I was chewing things over . |
| 15 | I was holding hands with someone on my right and someone on my left . |
| 16 | I remember my own mother saying , when I was undergoing tests to discover why my periods had stopped , that we need n't worry , they were an expensive nuisance , what did I want periods for anyway ? |
| 17 | I was wearing shorts and whole families fed on my thin white legs . |
| 18 | I was wearing dresses that showed more than she ever would dare , before she was born . |
| 19 | I was wearing pyjamas . |
| 20 | Like — if I was wearing jeans it would only be 501s and that kind of thing . |
| 21 | I was wearing jeans last week . |
| 22 | I , I remember being stared at because I was wearing trousers when I came to live in Scotland forty four years ago ! |
| 23 | I sat down and took off my shoes and socks — I was wearing slacks and trainers — and then walked across the bay , luxuriating in the feel of the fine warm sand under my bare feet . |
| 24 | In one way it was good to have success so quickly , but in another way it meant I was facing things for which I was n't really prepared . |
| 25 | To walk into a pub function room as I have often done during the ten years I was collecting fieldnotes and see two or three hundred detectives in their ‘ uniform ’ of modern suit and tie , neat haircut , and the fashionable moustache of the times , is to be visibly reminded that there is a narrow symbolic range of bodily correctness within which all policemen can properly operate . |
| 26 | ‘ No , Irene said I was imagining things . |
| 27 | The first time i spotted a puffin I thought I was seeing things . |
| 28 | I was seeing trails and lights from the blue packet 's passing even after she brought it back down . |
| 29 | ‘ Good God in heaven , I thought I was seeing ghosts ! ’ |
| 30 | I began to wonder if I was creating profiles for murder . |