Example sentences of "he was [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I did n't actually but he was arsed I just said oh thanks very much ! |
| 2 | You can tell how close I was and he was facing me . ’ |
| 3 | I thought he was conning me when he told me his plan . |
| 4 | I asked , surprised that he was leaving me . |
| 5 | He was watching me . |
| 6 | The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're sure he was watching me ? ’ |
| 8 | He was watching me . |
| 9 | He was calling me all the time-awful things . |
| 10 | He was going to tell his mother and sister on the Friday and , to break the ice , we decided to go to the Fire Festival on Saturday ; he was to pick me up here at eight and we were going together . ’ |
| 11 | He still listened , but now I do n't think he was hearing me , not believing that I meant what I said . |
| 12 | Then he was crushing me and I understood . |
| 13 | When he was conducting I would often sit in the orchestra in the middle of the woodwinds . |
| 14 | Now even Kalim Siddiqui is saying let's forgive and forget , when just a short time ago he was wanting me murdered , deported to Tehran , whatever would spill my blood . |
| 15 | ‘ Your pardon , Aunt Lavvy , but he was stopping me getting to my favourite lady . |
| 16 | As I left my GP — he was passing me over to a surgeon — and he shook my hand and wished me luck — that in itself was a bad sign — neither the truth nor the meaning had really sunk in . |
| 17 | Everything was happening so fast — he could n't be aware of the crisis he was dragging me towards . |
| 18 | He was singing I do n't know why I love you , but I do , and a holiday couple in shades of beige were making it a waltz of dance-class precision . |
| 19 | ( When alone in Tom 's attic recently , found his passport and discovered that when he was born I was already at Grammar School , doing Domestic Science — in vain , as it turned out ) . |
| 20 | When he was born I felt detached . |
| 21 | So fifty five years before Jesus was born the Romans were already he was born I think but they had not come as far as Britain . |
| 22 | ‘ And so do I. Before he was born I decided he would come first and that , if it was at all possible , I 'd be at home with him throughout his early years . ’ |
| 23 | One time I did and he was tapping me on the shoulder saying , ‘ I 've broken a string ’ . |
| 24 | He was regarding me with an indulgence that did not convince me . |
| 25 | This was almost the first time the bloke had spoken to me about anything , never mind about 10,000m running , and here he was telling me how to run tactically . |
| 26 | However , to illustrate my belief that nothing has really changed , while I was taking a few notes from a caddie in Montpellier in the south of France — he was telling me how ‘ we 'd hit a great pitch in at the last ’ — I happened to notice the sign above the caddie shack . |
| 27 | I think it was the other way round , He was telling me to get back to p H and stop writing fiction . |
| 28 | And that 's while he was telling me that he wanted his Harley Street centre to offer a rape examination suite . |
| 29 | ‘ And , say , he was telling me how in your mother 's day there were coal fires in every bedroom and how … ’ |
| 30 | Do you know , yesterday he was telling me about his past . |