Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gave the old man a tip , and soon Mrs M. and I were speeding back to Ballina . |
| 2 | Late afternoon yesterday , my family and I were going up to Dunkil to visit the Bible class who About a dozen deer and one or two stags high on the hill . |
| 3 | He were parked up there well every coalman I 've pulled him about this coke stuff and I 'd seen him other day and I pulled him , explained that I were going over on April first |
| 4 | It was a hurried occasion , as we were all going to catch a train : the same train , as it turned out , for Donald and I were going home to Oxford , and Ivy and Margaret were going with Herman Schrijver — the Dutch interior decorator who became the closest of her men friends — to spend a week at Woodstock , and walk in the park at Blenheim . |
| 5 | Ken Pitt : ‘ It was 1968 and David and I were going across to Germany quite often to do television shows and on one occasion , the producer whose name was Gunther Schneider , asked us if David would be interested in doing a half-hour programme with him . |
| 6 | After a while , the numbness I 'd experienced after the press conference set in , and I felt again as if I were talking not about John and me , but about two different people . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , I was looking forward to Eliot 's Oxford visit . |
| 8 | It was late and I was looking down at Chung Kuo , wondering what lay ahead . |
| 9 | Hello there , erm I was calling in to sort of object to the erm whole presentation of recent events in the , in the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | So anyway , I did n't even hear anymore what he said after that , after he said this like so I was messing about with Graham |
| 11 | They 're watching t Oh I , I was messing about with Tony so I , I flashed me skirt , flashed me knees . |
| 12 | I appreciate that in that respect I was drifting out of order . |
| 13 | At the time I was commuting regularly between Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the USA and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in England . |
| 14 | In addition , I have not had the opportunity to read ’ Erskine May ’ during the debate , as I was listening attentively to contributors . |
| 15 | I was trembling violently from head to foot . |
| 16 | He thought I was lashing about for excuses . |
| 17 | In his account of the final stage , it is as if the unheard melody of which he had some intimation suddenly becomes audible and transposes all his experience into its terms : In my prayer I was reaching out to heaven with heartfelt longing when I became aware , in a way I can not explain , of a symphony of song , and in myself I sensed a corresponding harmony at once wholly delectable and heavenly , which persisted in my mind . |
| 18 | I was referring not to press reports , but to my conversation with the gentleman concerned . |
| 19 | and I was thinking where on earth is there a shop in that sells , sells things like that or do you have to go to a garage and I 'd forgotten that that fruit |
| 20 | When I closed the window , I was thinking specifically of Sydney Burrows , then I heard he 'd gone to Gainsborough after all . |
| 21 | Sgurr a' Mhaim was my 5Oth Munro , but as I hauled my dejected little body up the last few hundred feet , I was thinking only of rest , not triumph . |
| 22 | ‘ I was thinking more in terms of work , not charity , ’ Edward smiled and lifted his hat . |
| 23 | ‘ I was thinking more in terms of sardine sandwiches and a flask of tea , ’ said Lydia . |
| 24 | Among the throngs of passing students I was thinking fondly of Jordi when someone who was obviously an American passed by , and our eyes met for a split second . |
| 25 | We 'd had a huge rally of 10,000 people for Ronald Reagan at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas and I was flying on to Los Angeles with one of the co-ordinators the next morning . |
| 26 | I was hoping not to mention this , but since raised it , we 'll have to . |
| 27 | And before I could resolve the problem I was struggling up in bed , in the pitch blackness , reaching for the shrilling telephone . |
| 28 | So I was trying not to talk . |
| 29 | I was fiddling blindly with files , my eyes full of terrible possibilities . |
| 30 | Yes I well remember er I use when I was staying down at Trimley there was erm a lady there who worked in the Billeting Department , who ca who herself was evacuated from London and er , I used to catch the same bus with her but she never would speak to me , erm and erm one morning er she lived down at Curton and one morning they had some erm er German planes over Curton and they were doing some machine gunning and that sort of thing and erm and we met at the bus stop and she was full of it and erm that sort of broke the ice it was |