Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ladies and I were all very moved . |
| 2 | Malc and I were all part of the same gang when we were 14 , sort of ‘ paired off ’ when we were 15 , and started putting our biology theory into practice at 16 . |
| 3 | But every little detail seemed crucial and it was something I struggled with all the way through , but knowing that Cathy , Joan and I were all on the same wavelength and felt the same level of commitment was a great relief . |
| 4 | Mm I do n't think so I , I was n't er , I were all for looking for a , going to work , you know . |
| 5 | Wish I were all the things that you 're pretending to be . ’ |
| 6 | If a human observer sets out to interpret the " emotions " of a rat what else can he do except say of himself : " Now if I were that rat , how should I feel ? " |
| 7 | varies it 's only three hundred , especially if I were that |
| 8 | ‘ How I wish that I were that dog ! ’ |
| 9 | My wife and I were both brought up Methodists . ’ |
| 10 | Within the hour Rick and I were both catching plenty of fish . |
| 11 | Yes ha he and I were both on the electrical staff , late twenties , early thirties . |
| 12 | I 'll go back to London , I 'll move to a new district , I 'll start seeing Sophie on a regular basis , I 'll do my job as if I were any competent lawyer , and I 've come here alone , you bastard , so why do n't you do whatever you 've got in mind ? |
| 13 | And the girl who came for him was Young and Insolent and spoke to me as if I were some common washerwoman who must do as she was told which is not in my nature nor never was . |
| 14 | ( I never cease to marvel at the continued confusion in the public mind between nuclear power and weapons : too many people stare at me as if I were some unnaturally hybrid creature when I mention to them that I am both a member of CND and a strident advocate of nuclear power stations to produce electricity . |
| 15 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
| 16 | as if I were some Arab with five gold watches up his arm . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You tested me as if I were some wretched little circus dog at the Carnival , doing tricks to please you ? |
| 18 | ‘ as if I were some lusty parlourmaid who waylaid you — ’ |
| 19 | You are treating me as if I were another Rosette Fournier . ’ |
| 20 | I thought yours were same make . |
| 21 | But I very soon found that I was much more like the companionable dog ! |
| 22 | I was much more at peace with myself and more accepting of the way that I looked . |
| 23 | Perhaps because this was the first time I was all alone in a big city in a new country . |
| 24 | First because in Prisoner desire and fantasy seem transformed into nonsublimated social identification ; as he puts it in relation to one group of black students in America , ‘ while I never desired any particular person , I was all desire for the group as a whole . |
| 25 | I suppose you could say I was all kinds of a fool to trust him , but I 'm a designer , not an accountant . |
| 26 | I was all alone . |
| 27 | But outwardly I was all sweetness and patient understanding , continually being congratulated on my competence in the role of ‘ little mother ’ . |
| 28 | I was all alone in my flat , so I crawled to my phone and rung a friend to beg for help . |
| 29 | And , in an exclusive interview , Merson told me : ‘ I 'm back to the weight I was all last season , 13 stone , but ideally I would like to get down to 12st 10lb . |
| 30 | I thought I was OK , but I was all Old Spice and acne . |