Example sentences of "[coord] i [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I left at two o'clock , Tally and I were addressing each other by first names ( ‘ Elliot ’ was strange to him and we settled for ‘ Ellix ’ ) and I was able to address the two waitresses by their first names without feeling uncomfortable . |
| 2 | Well they 've wanted a mid-field player and a good striker , now people well write letters to local press informing them of this , but they do n't seem to be prepared to do this , they , the managers want to do their own thing as far as I can see they think the people on the terraces do n't know anything , but Jim and I were saying last night they wanted a mid-field player for ages now all this season , a ball winner , they have n't had one since Willie used to play and |
| 3 | And I were to guess that learning together is also a model of rich and diverse possibilities . |
| 4 | The red second hand was coming up to six-thirty , 14 January , and I was counting thirty-eight beats a minute , slower than ever , half the rate of two years ago . |
| 5 | My parents were 21 when they wed , and I was born 10 months later . |
| 6 | So for instance if my backup window is an hour and that 's how long it take me to backup my database today , if had the backup server and I was using one device it took an hour , if I used two it would learn one dialect of S Q L. as |
| 7 | I could see my sister being nourished as I had been nourished , and I was demanding some sort of parity . |
| 8 | And I was reaching some conclusions about the choice that Gharr had given me . |
| 9 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 10 | And I was thinking awful things — like how I could get my revenge … ’ |
| 11 | It was my lunch hour and I was dressed classic BR Clerk Chic ( beer-stained jacket , tightly knotted skinny tie , crimplene shiny ass pants and shoes with animal tracks and a useful compass in the heel ) . |
| 12 | I had , of course , been told by my surgeon that everything he could see he had taken out , On the other hand , I had chosen to explore further on my own and I was learning that cancer has this nasty habit of playing possum . |
| 13 | Oh I was bored to tears and I was eating whole time |
| 14 | It goes right into there , and I was staggering all day , you know when I would get up ? |
| 15 | And I was asked this week if it is possible to make up your own , rather than buy one of these metal affairs on wheels . |
| 16 | Like when you were in the other week and I was taking that class |
| 17 | I saved on the knitted things by making all his little woollies myself and I was given six baby vests . |
| 18 | My charge was supplying cocaine and I was given two years for that and one year each concurrent for possession of small amounts of cannabis , cannabis resin , amphetamines and LSD . |
| 19 | We knew the Germans were still sentimental about Christmas , and I was given several days leave . |
| 20 | After that , Mr Dance went away and I was given some food . |
| 21 | The first time I ever got it I what do you want me to do and he said right run across there and I 'd run now punch it , and I 'd be punching the you 'd be jumping and turning round , I could n't get the right one , and finally punch it and the would be coming , said quick hit that and I was getting all sort of |
| 22 | Then one day — I 'll always remember — I was staying at a friend 's house and I was sweeping this carpet and I had this vision . |
| 23 | This was a disappointment , since I had been striving even more to acquire expertise in Italian affairs , and I was doing some propaganda work for the BBC , some of which was ‘ beamed ’ to the Arab population of Libya . |
| 24 | And I was going ten minutes . |
| 25 | And y and I was paying eighteen pounds a week to be catered for . |
| 26 | I did n't know it then but I was receiving subliminal training for later business life . |
| 27 | ‘ Not in the conventional sense , but I was given moral codes of conduct to follow . ’ |
| 28 | Apparently not only had I collapsed on stage last night , but I was having intravenous chemotherapy between shows , sobbing and grimacing in agony in my dressing room . |
| 29 | , but I was saying any way I like |
| 30 | I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with And , but I was told that English had changed since the time of King James , In that case , I argued , why make us read the Bible ? |