Example sentences of "[noun] i [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Training hurt and it was always a battle to force myself out , but after six months I was managing sixty miles a week and sometimes doing fifteen miles non-stop in a hundred minutes . |
| 2 | By the autumn of 1989 I could see that the work I was planning more breeding and lecturing , was going to get very costly . |
| 3 | Then I could show the Star Council I was doing important work . |
| 4 | I had a phone call , and you know that place I were going this afternoon ? |
| 5 | No , for that job I was doing last night . |
| 6 | Well I think the the er other point I was making last week was that erm this whole are of learning theory is erm y'know a very traditional area . |
| 7 | The targets I was given last year in my appraisal were n't covered at all this year in my appraisal by the manager , |
| 8 | And as an apprentice you , I was a year there for nothing , a ye , half a year for half a crown , half a year for five shillings , and at the end of five years I was earning fourteen shillings . |
| 9 | Over the years I was to meet Irish women who , unable to stand the barrages of racism , distorted and changed their accents in order to pass . |
| 10 | In the guards ' room I was shown two videos . |
| 11 | The stuff I was doing last night . |
| 12 | Yeah , rich colour I was having this year very well . |
| 13 | A. T. I was reported one day . |
| 14 | J.B. I was wearing this jumper . |
| 15 | Every time I took a big breath I were getting short pains all down this side ? |
| 16 | The show was given before an invited audience of some 1,200 music fans each week , and as a visiting newspaperman I was afforded special treatment . |
| 17 | I were gon na report it today then I got talking with gaffer I were sorting this job out |
| 18 | On retirement from the Army & Navy Stores I was appointed managing director of Hatchards , Piccadilly , and Miss Riley came as my secretary and continued there in a full or part time capacity for many years . |
| 19 | Late last year I was getting terrible stomach pains . |
| 20 | When I rang the consulate I was told such help would be hard to obtain on a Sunday night . |
| 21 | Around the time I was compiling this report the women attended three adult education classes a week — for music , keep-fit and self-advocacy . |
| 22 | This time I was making hot pants and rainbow striped jumpers . |