Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day after we first visited the castle , my sister and I were treated to a walk along the cliffs . |
| 2 | If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail . |
| 3 | If I were looking for a record deal , I would be pursuing individual A&R people , getting them to come and see my band . |
| 4 | I were looking for an alarm clock , I thought I better have a new one else I 'm gon na start sleeping in for work . |
| 5 | You know , I sometimes feel as if you and I were connected by a string tying our two hearts together , and if you went to Ireland , I think that string might break and I might bleed to death . ’ |
| 6 | If I were to turn to a man on a bench |
| 7 | JC : Peter , do you remember that really worrying evening when you , Ben , William and I were invited to a dinner party by the Harewoods at Orme Square [ May 18,1953 ] ? |
| 8 | It 's a shameful fact , but here it is : if I were squashed under a bus tomorrow , my relations would have to hold a seance to find out how I wanted to settle my affairs . |
| 9 | When I returned to Moose Jaw about mid-August I had a long talk with Fred Workman , who told me he had noticed a certain restlessness in me as if I were hoping for a change of scene . |
| 10 | and er when he got there Je , er er erm , Julian and I were loading about a ton of turf into my van and I was gon na take it to Caffer Cliss but he said for fifteen quid I 'll take that , I 'll take that away for you . |
| 11 | Sergei said Bernard has n't been in touch with Bailey for days , certainly not since C.W. and I were assigned to the case . ’ |
| 12 | One day , soon after our night outside the castle , Princess Flavia and I were riding through the town when we saw a group of people dressed in black going to the church . |
| 13 | Cos I ca I were querying on t' bill , I says , why is it two meters ? |
| 14 | Marius and I were chosen by the rest of the group to finish off punishing him . |
| 15 | If you and I were working for an organization which gave say half a million to charity , our , I mean correct me if I 'm wrong , but I , I 'm sure our temptation would be to say how can we promote this giving in the media in order , let's be honest about it , to make our , us look good , partly that would be it . |
| 16 | I wonder if the Secretary of the Cabinet would go into the box if I were found outside the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 17 | My heart was behaving as if I were going before a judge . |
| 18 | Flora and I were walking through the palm grove , on mud paths between tiny squares of pale green barley . |
| 19 | If I 'd a , if I were walking down the street going Nigger ! sorry ! |
| 20 | I dropped my right wing suddenly as if I were turning into the cloud and immediately swung over into a steep left hand turn . |
| 21 | Early fog had cleared and the airport manager and I were standing on the tarmac lining up the motorcade when my car phone rang . |
| 22 | Miss Maton died in 1923 and about a year later I remember that my friends and I were playing in the street when there was a sudden shout from a young man . |
| 23 | One Sunday afternoon , when Dana and I were sitting on the edge of the bed working over versions of various poems , the door , which we always left unlocked , suddenly burst open and a group of surly-looking students entered , led by a big bully who was not Spanish but Venezuelan . |
| 24 | It was as though I were sitting in a movie and my actions were flashing in front of my eyes . |
| 25 | One Saturday evening , when I had been apprenticed to Joe for four years , he and I were sitting in the pub , with some of the villagers , listening to Mr Wopsle . |
| 26 | One night my mother , my father and I were sitting in the dining room . |
| 27 | Last week I was gutted at the sale of Batts , but last night I was so happy that the scum failed . |
| 28 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 29 | A fortnight ago , I was invited to a meeting of Somali refugees in East Ham town hall . |
| 30 | ‘ I lived my life in Siglo XX as described in the book until 1980 , when I was invited to a conference on women in Denmark . |