Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] i [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought you were calling me the bearded wonder then . |
| 2 | That same day he told me , as if he were giving me a magnificent present , that he thought he could pull strings and have me posted with him . |
| 3 | Yeah cos , my mates were telling me the other day what 's Gilly said ? |
| 4 | I mean technically we do have an entitlement to visits in that Janet was was reminding me the other day that that we said , when Deborah was here , that everybody was entitled to four visits a year . |
| 5 | Erm , I was erm , put on just for in ninety seventy three and your question that you 're asked was and from nineteen seventy three till three years ago erm I know took my causes , I trust , put my trust in the doctors and erm over all those years I did n't realize that it was actually the tablets that was causing me the mental illness . |
| 6 | Mat. , she had managed to give the impression authority was granting me a great favour . |
| 7 | She was berating me the whole time . |
| 8 | Mrs Goreng presented the idea like she was doing me a big favour , giving me the chance to teach the future malai President . |
| 9 | Jean was asking me the other day , and really , you 've told me next to nothing . |
| 10 | Until the mishap he was giving me a great feel and I was delighted how he was going in the blinkers . ’ |
| 11 | But no , it seemed to be the local name for the twenty kilo fish which was giving me a hard time , though later someone else called it a kingfish . |
| 12 | I know what profession she 's in , and no wonder that taxi driver was giving me the big smirk . |
| 13 | Now he s he thought he was giving me the same stuff , I did n't know what I was on , all I knew was I felt twice as bad . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll have your name , and I 'll see that lady who was telling me the other day that Brownie girls do n't raid orchards . ’ |
| 15 | Anyway , just after Christmas this guy says er I still want the hotel so Peter said well you better put something down , you ge , better get something so he he went and put fifty thousand as a deposit on it and then said his legal advisers would be in touch and they had a month went by and they never heard anything , so Peter rang up , he was telling me the other day , er , he rang up yeah , go , he does n't want it you know ? |
| 16 | She was telling me the other day . |
| 17 | The progress of this story was to show me the essential solitariness of other people , people whom I had not thought of as being solitary before . |