Example sentences of "i [was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't rem I were reading about when I were in hospital on er Tuesday while waiting |
| 2 | After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one . |
| 3 | If I were taking on a new act , their ability to perform on stage would be second only to the quality of their songwriting . |
| 4 | I gave the old man a tip , and soon Mrs M. and I were speeding back to Ballina . |
| 5 | I were tidying up at half past six this morning . |
| 6 | The Clown was racing alongside and Lollo and I were showing off to him whooing and waving . |
| 7 | Oh I were making up friends I was . |
| 8 | I felt quite calm again , as divorced from my own immediate problems as if I were coming out after seeing a particularly absorbing film . |
| 9 | Late afternoon yesterday , my family and I were going up to Dunkil to visit the Bible class who About a dozen deer and one or two stags high on the hill . |
| 10 | possibly Wednesday , well I told her I were going up Thursday or Friday so I might nip up this aft |
| 11 | He were parked up there well every coalman I 've pulled him about this coke stuff and I 'd seen him other day and I pulled him , explained that I were going over on April first |
| 12 | I mean , look at me , I were going down Dunscroft there , you know at top of and er I 'm just driving in along and this bloody dog come over |
| 13 | I were weighing up the value of the frame |
| 14 | The choir , and all about it , and the church I rather enjoyed because as as I were growing up most of the p people that came were the business people and the people that were conscientious towards that area , St. John 's . |
| 15 | One evening in mid-April , Dr Jaffery and I were walking down the Chandni Chowk heading towards the doctor 's rooms in the Ghazi-ud-Din Medresse . |
| 16 | I was trundling out the obvious . ’ |
| 17 | I was looking around , seeing where to go , when a black man took my arm . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Yes I was looking around for your dog |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Well I was looking out the other side cos I was trying to work out where Glynis lived . |
| 23 | 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 ! |
| 24 | And I was looking out through the door and you have n't got five minutes longer . |
| 25 | As I was looking in , I could see the Queen , surrounded by her lords and ladies . |
| 26 | " 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 . |
| 27 | About twelve years later , when I was looking back on that meeting with Dana , I wrote the following poem : |
| 28 | Instead I was looking down the quay to where a pathetically thin girl was walking beside a smartly dressed woman . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I felt I was looking down into my own grave . |