Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were telling you about Irene , I were filling this thing in and I put right , sixty four I were gon na put sixty four , that were it . |
| 2 | Some of you er may take it amiss if I were to describe you as veterans but my by contrast , this is my first annual public meeting and not just as chairman . |
| 3 | I were killing myself with laughter ! |
| 4 | The idea was I was using them as sub-headings originally but then people were kept y'know slowing d it 's erm very hard to work out whether what you actually want is a good detailed set of notes . |
| 5 | ‘ I knew it could n't be the murder weapon , ’ he gravely told Wickham , ‘ because I was using it on Friday evening , hours after MacQuillan was found dead . ’ |
| 6 | Fine er what we 're , what we 're saying to you basically is , right , and , and another thing you 're doing is proving that you 're capable of doing it , now if I was training you from cold , right , and you had n't done it |
| 7 | It 's odd because I was watching him on Football Focus yesterday , him and Bob Wilson , and I was trying to stay awake |
| 8 | PS Stoke just won thier first game under Joe Jordan … so what ? well I was watching it on telly , had to come to work , & had to find something to do ! |
| 9 | I was weathering the winter and believed that if there was anything in my lung , then at the very worst I was holding it at bay . |
| 10 | more through magazines than I did at school , because in school I was taught nothing about pleasure , it was all very biological with a diagram of the male and the female , exactly what happened , there was nothing about er , sexually transmitted diseases , pleasure or abortion , contraception , nothing mentioned , only the mere basics . |
| 11 | Always I was comparing myself to others , watching other husbands , fathers and sons and invariably finding myself wanting . |
| 12 | To make sure that I was reading it to Bev right , but then you understand it 's a Connie letter do n't you ? |
| 13 | Because I was writing it in R E |
| 14 | but do n't get me wrong after a while I just gave up and I was getting them in bouts and I was getting through the Bonjela and the |
| 15 | If I was phoning you from Publishing and I phoned up G A |
| 16 | I was telling them at school . |
| 17 | However , I was telling you of Mr Ballantyne . |
| 18 | I , I was taking one after breakfast , one after lunch and one after dinner . |
| 19 | Oh yes , I was asking you about John . ’ |
| 20 | So , in the end , I was mixing it with cocaine . |
| 21 | Because , as you 've said , I was depriving you of choice . |
| 22 | ‘ I was bitten lots of times by mosquitoes , once just above my navel , where my shirt buttons were bursting open . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes — I was to meet him at Glasgow and I was late . |
| 24 | " Drewy " Leask , one of our local customs staff , same with us as local pilot , and very glad I was to have him on board as he was able to show us many remote anchorages and isolated harbours that I would never otherwise have dared approach . |
| 25 | And er I was showing it to chap next to me , tall chap , he took a fatherly interest in showing me how to work you know when foreman was out and er ooh he said there 's a bloody Taffy . |
| 26 | ‘ My dear little castaway , ’ he drawled , ‘ surely you did n't imagine I was offering myself as companion for the night ? |
| 27 | I said to her , I was saying it to Mum earlier , if that was me with a family , I 'd wake up to the fact that you 're pa , I , I I , there 's too many here . |
| 28 | I did not respond , for I was feeling nothing but astonishment . |
| 29 | But when I said I was doing it in Scotland , people just shivered . |
| 30 | I was , I was hybridizing it with D R DOS . |