Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one . |
| 2 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 3 | I were knocked back on the bloody floor . |
| 4 | For a moment she was too surprised to speak and simply stared as if she were looking down on an apparition . |
| 5 | She could hear guests on the tennis-courts ; if she were to walk back to the house now , straightway , taking the short cut , she could avoid them . |
| 6 | It was still not yet fully dark outside , and if she were to look out of the window , she would be able to see at once whether the outside world was part of her own world or whether it , too , was caught in this terrifying time slip . |
| 7 | I wonder if I were to kill her , if she were dead , if she were knocked over by a car , would that make the jealousy , that mixture of anxiety , grief and fear of exclusion , simply stop ? |
| 8 | At that point then you were airlifted back to a hospital in Aberdeen . |
| 9 | Yeah , I thought you were saving up for a new game for your Sega system ? |
| 10 | We all have the capacity to feel and how much more would an unborn child feel in its internal world , within its mother 's body ? just consider how you would feel if you were locked up in a room with someone in a state of fear , anxiety , anger or grief for nine months ! |
| 11 | And when it happened , you were passing by on the bus , tuning in to their moment from another reality , like switching through channels on late-night TV . |
| 12 | They were , which was , well it was quite useful really because er you , you know you had to be , you were called out to a case suddenly er there was always somebody just to make sure you had n't left any food you know in the kitchen that was going to grow whiskers until you got back . |
| 13 | Oh , I did my homework , while you were screaming along with the boys ! |
| 14 | ‘ I was asking , Preston , how you were getting on with the Devil . ’ |
| 15 | I mean it was , you , you were sent out of the room . |
| 16 | You know , erm , you know what sort of gross salary and you know and there was , you were holding back in a way erm tt and why you did n't wan na discuss your hobbies you know where you were losing it |
| 17 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 18 | Well that was the that was the er base headquarters of the international brigade , Albusate And then from there , w you were farmed out to the village , which was er er sort of the base , who are responsible for your er particular national battalion , you see er , the the the French people , they they er w they would be in one village , the English and the Canadians er er Americans would be er in this place that we were at , called Tarrazona Er and the Germans w , the German anti-fascists would be er in another . |
| 19 | You were brought up in a hotbed of superstition and anarchy : you ca n't help it but it 's hopeless . ’ |
| 20 | This may seem idiotic to you , if you were brought up in the " filling-station " tradition . |
| 21 | Carry the Lecfile with you , containing perhaps two or three of the last sheets that you were working on at the previous lecture . |
| 22 | We did n't find you till late , and you were curled up on the landing , outside the kitchen door . |
| 23 | Whe when you were did n't it happen Mrs that when you were playing in the street one day , you were knocked over by a tram ? |
| 24 | You were taken on as a boy and er you got a boy 's wages but you were expected to do as much work as a man . |
| 25 | But why should you condemn yourself because you were taken in by an elaborate trick and an accomplished liar ? |
| 26 | However if you were let in to the secret that x stands for the number 10 then you can work out this problem in the following way unc |
| 27 | I first saw him when you were sitting out on the veranda ; but I did n't pay any attention to him . |
| 28 | Darling — and I 'm sure this wo n't be inopportune — do n't worry about me , because I 'm really quite a ‘ happy warrior ’ ; it was the thought of leaving you , and the fact that you were going back to a hard grind , which prompted my outpourings . |
| 29 | You said yesterday you were going along with the Irish |
| 30 | and you were going out into the |