Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sergeant Morris and I were trying to stop the bleeding when you came . ’ |
| 2 | IN A desperate attempt to cheer ourselves up at one particularly gloomy moment last week , my Somerset neighbour William Rees-Mogg and I were trying to construct the scenario of what might happen if Labour scraped into power . |
| 3 | On condition that we both covered our heads , Olivia and I were invited to watch the proceedings from the rear of the crowd . |
| 4 | If I were going to spend the time and effort to write a book , I wanted it to get to as many people as possible . |
| 5 | From Madras my wife and I were taken to see the Shore Temples at Mahabalipuram and beside this is ( or was ) a very large boulder resting on the hillside . |
| 6 | When I went to Beverley on Easter Sunday 1987 I was invited to join the choristers on the roof . |
| 7 | In the middle of these difficulties I was invited to visit the Chicago headquarters of Binks Manufacturing ( Binks Bullows 's parent company ) to negotiate selling the machine to the US . |
| 8 | It was as a result of this withdrawal that I was invited to write the paper ( Currie , 1979 ) . |
| 9 | Seeing my interest was now aroused , I was invited to try the unit myself on a day 's diving . |
| 10 | I was tempted to use the quay , but did n't . |
| 11 | Years later , when I heard that Inez had left her husband and that the police were investigating her disappearance , I was tempted to carry the matter a little further . |
| 12 | In attempting to answer this question , I was tempted to follow the Economist and define services as : ‘ anything sold in trade that could not be dropped on your foot ’ . |
| 13 | I 'd had some sailing instruction before on Lake Bala , in a larger Wayfarer which has room for two people and an instructor , but I found that I was tending to leave the thinking to my partner and the instructor , and just doing what I was told without knowing why . |
| 14 | So I was delegated to broach the subject with Paul Coleman . |
| 15 | Richards , 40 , said : ‘ I was flattered to receive the offer , but morally I could not accept . |
| 16 | As I approached it I reached out my talons to land and perhaps the prey I was holding obscured the view for I should have seen sooner what had been put on top of the post by Men . |
| 17 | There was the occasion I was sent to report the speech day at West Bank School , a private school , in Bideford . |
| 18 | And then I was sent to retrieve the balls from the headmaster 's garden . |
| 19 | I was hoping to see the Seychelles black parrot , which has never been recorded from any island other than Praslin . |
| 20 | I was hoping to get the chance to see the new Beethoven opera . |
| 21 | With a sigh he admitted , ‘ I was hoping to find the ring quickly . ’ |
| 22 | I was hoping to film the kits growing up and discovering the world around them , but before they were old enough to fend for themselves , a fisherman trapped and killed the mother . |
| 23 | " I was wanting to see the kids , " he said when Mr Blakey came closer . |
| 24 | And it was right one evening , at an art college gig where I was helping lug the gear to the van . |
| 25 | I was loathe to leave the house . |
| 26 | Once a huge golden eagle circled above a wreck and I intercepted a couple hiking to call at a Crofter 's cottage for assistance because I was loathe to leave the area to the eagle . |
| 27 | I was struggling to grasp the aesthetics of it all . |
| 28 | supposed I was dyin' to spill the beans |
| 29 | ‘ I was intending to ask the committee for something towards my purchase . ’ |
| 30 | However , as a ‘ courageous ’ cut and sewer , as well as being a past owner of a Brother Electronic with garter carriage which casts off automatically , I decided that I would never go back to a latch tool cast off and that it was a waste of time in any case if I was intending to cut the fabric ! |