Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They and I were proud of what they had achieved . |
| 2 | Moreover it saved us as a family from being caught in the 1914 — 18 war as my sister and I were eighteen and sixteen years old when it finished and almost all our contemporary male cousins were killed . |
| 3 | Yeah , when I were eighteen . |
| 4 | I 'm not sure , but I think I do n't got my family allowance until I were eighteen , I think , I think they used to give us |
| 5 | Thank you very much , er I ca n't carry along because you want to stop me , but if I were capable of telling , I 'd say my attitude is still the same as it was before . |
| 6 | If only I were capable of taking over Swift myself , but I 'm not , I never was , I never will be — I just could n't face it , all the pressure , the ruthless cut-throat ambition of everyone trying to stab me in the back and take my place … |
| 7 | Both the nurses and I were impressed by the speed of action of the remedy , and this experience stimulated me to look into homoeopathy more seriously . |
| 8 | Both the hon. Member for Wellingborough and I were impressed by the EC monitoring force that we met in Zagreb . |
| 9 | I fell asleep , I were asleep and I it were on |
| 10 | We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago . |
| 11 | I were real rubbish at school . |
| 12 | Or I would be , if I were sure of keeping it . ’ |
| 13 | He looked at me as if I were sure of what this was . |
| 14 | ‘ Ben and I were sure that you must still be feeling jet lagged . |
| 15 | Slater glanced at Graham , " Sara and I were next-door neighbours for a while , I do believe our parents may even have intended us for each other at one time , without actually saying anything about it , of course . " |
| 16 | We sit together/not so often now/in restless silence/drinking beer/or watching football/like you and I were young . |
| 17 | I remember when Will and I were young , just boys really … |
| 18 | But I As I say I were young and I would n't have been paying particular attention . |
| 19 | When Jerry and I were young if at the end of the month there was no money in the account the bank used to write you a filthy letter if you were two pounds overdrawn . |
| 20 | if she has I wished I had a job like that when I were young by George , going abroad and |
| 21 | ‘ Penry , ’ she said , frowning , ‘ are you saying you — well , that you would n't want a relationship with me if I were frigid , like Melanie ? ’ |
| 22 | Thus , for several weeks both Monty and I were relieved of any responsibility in the matter and turned our attention to other and more profitable activities ; but I was foolish in the expectation that I should long be left in peace . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , I make a confession : Benjamin and I were stupid . |
| 24 | ( I was not impressed by such remarks ; I merely deduced that he would feel most at his ease about me if I were absent , unfaithful or dead . ) |
| 25 | ‘ If I were married , ’ she almost screamed at him , ‘ I would n't send my child out to work if my husband was fit and well . ’ |
| 26 | For twelve years after J. and I were married we lived first in West and then East Africa , an entirely different kind of life from what had gone before . |
| 27 | The news that Karen and I were married was made public at a buffet brunch given by Thomas and Lynn Carter to which we had been invited — or rather Karen had been invited , and had asked if it would be all right to bring me along . |
| 28 | ‘ If only I were married to Prince Edward ! ’ sighed Anne , by no means for the first time . |
| 29 | It was , by now , Saturday , a day on which the registrar 's office was normally closed , so special arrangements had to be made and the registrar had to open up just for me , which , I imagine , had n't put him in the best of moods , which manifested itself when I could n't remember the date on which Nigel and I were married . |
| 30 | In all the years Francis and I were married I never asked him for a cent . |