Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dominic and I were laughing a lot , because we were making up our own historical jokes in the style of 1066 and All That . |
| 2 | I was learning a lot over the period of making mistakes as you can imagine . |
| 3 | I was thinking a lot of things , none of them connected with the business which had brought me . |
| 4 | I was antagonised a lot when I was little . |
| 5 | I was writing a lot of tunes around my studies of that culture and then the Gulf War broke out and so there was more stuff to influence me . ’ |
| 6 | Well , the first three albums I ever did , I was taking a lot of LSD . |
| 7 | ‘ You must think I was taking a lot for granted , sorting all this out before — well , before I even knew you 'd let me on the island , let alone still want me . ’ |
| 8 | Here in America I perform a lot in Las Vegas and Atlantic City and I probably make more money today than I ever did when I was selling a lot of records as a teenage idol . |
| 9 | And we had our hiccups and we had all sorts of you know difficult moments for all of us where we all had to face ourselves and You know I remember my little boy said , Oh Mum y what about my Christmas you know I was putting a lot of time into the the striker 's Christmas and he said how do you become a striker 's child ? |
| 10 | ‘ I was shooting a lot of travel features at the time and had done a few aerials just to try something new . |
| 11 | In boxing , I was encouraged a lot by school teachers . |
| 12 | In my gybe , it seemed that by pulling up on the boom I was committing a lot of weight to the back which , although turning the board initially , caused it to lose speed through the turn . |
| 13 | I spent a while some years ago just improving my chordal knowledge ; I just sat down and learned it , because I was playing with players who were a lot more advanced than I was , and because I was doing a lot of sessions and stuff . |