Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It 's all right , Dr Markham , ’ she replied , then in a sudden flash of inspiration , and hoping that David would realise what she meant , she said , ‘ Jimmy and I were just discussing visiting Len Seager in hospital .
2 Reason and conscience both told me that if I were ever to have any chance of escaping successfully this was that chance .
3 This was why Louisa Agnew had chosen the title of that text for her epitaph ; and if he and I were ever to unravel that secret , he said , we should get back to work .
4 In the paragraph of which she complains I was briefly putting each side 's case as outlined to the inquiry .
5 I was previously commenting that Id like us to score another and break the 2 goal hoodoo .
6 I was simply given some down to earth instruction on techniques .
7 I was desperately seeking some sort of reassurance , some sort of comeback from someone , but it soon became plain that I was not going to get it from her .
8 I was just telling these boys here , certain people can ride inside , certain people outside . "
9 I 've not got through them all , I was just reading selective pieces
10 I was just thinking that way as well .
11 I was just making small talk and some of it was the most petty talk that I 've ever heard !
12 I was just playing each ball on its merits and hoping things went my way , ’ said Arthurton .
13 I was just letting that record finish .
14 Even as I was recording my triumphs over a hostile and alien world , I was also expressing such sentiments as , ‘ Oh , it 's not even worth writing down — the same , usual , dismal , tedious , boring story . ’
15 Although I was spending most of my time writing the book on Americans abroad , I see from my records of the late 1960s that I was also presenting several television programmes , both in London and in the north .
16 I was already doing this job and so I went back because there they were going there there 's a solicitor going to earn me erm er somewhere in the region of a hundred and seventy pound commission .
17 I said I was n't going to be , and I was already doing scientific research with you .
18 I was recently quoted seventy pounds a week .
19 Holding her gently in my hands and feeling her warmth and the trembling lightness of her , I was genuinely moved t– tears and am not ashamed to admit it .
20 China was even worse : ‘ I was sorely grieved that heathendom had so strong a hold over [ this rich country ] , ’ he wrote after a few weeks in Qanjanfu .
21 First , I was never to mention these events .
22 I now realise that I was really teaching social passivity and conformity , academic snobbery and the naturalness of good healthy competition , and that I was using maths as an instrument for achieving these things .
23 Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future .
24 Assistant bar manager Sarah , 21 , said : ‘ I was always taught that honesty is the best policy . ’
25 On some cases yes because I was always told this man he that used to come and he was so clean looking and that he was a barber .
26 I was always giving secret funerals to dead birds .
27 That was one reason why I was so exhausted that morning .
28 I was then granted unconditional bail , in spite of the fact that the magistrates knew all about the cocaine , which was one of the reasons I thought I 'd never get a sentence .
29 I was there to take some photographs of Waugh and he welcomed me very heartily with a firm handshake and a glass of Beaujolais Nouveau .
30 I was there to give some talks on motivation and slimming and had a stand displaying my books .
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