Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were talking to her for about half an hour . |
| 2 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 3 | When I was chided by someone for seeming oblivious of ‘ the magnitude of the accounting operation ’ I said that it was because of my consciousness of the magnitude of all other operations that I dared to make these demands of Mr Whalley , who perfectly understands in any case . |
| 4 | I was to write about it for Cosmopolitan , she for Trud ; it was the first time she had been outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 5 | Michael is a man who knows his own mind and I was relying on him for some controversial quotes , but he surprised me by agreeing on the whole with Mr Isherwood 's choices . |