Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [pron] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if I were doing him a big favour . |
| 2 | In the Anglo-Italian Cup , group A , the other game being played in this country tonight as I was telling you a short while ago , Bolton nil , Brescia one , the goal scorer after three . |
| 3 | I was expecting you a little bit earlier actually , I think perhaps you got the times wrong I was |
| 4 | Although unladen with any climbing gear — even the daysack was being carried by Singi — I was finding it a hard struggle to make upward progress in the thin , cold air ; surprisingly more so than on Mera Peak when ice-axe , crampons and heavy climbing boots had been used . |
| 5 | Of course , in thinking like this , I was doing him a great injustice : the change was not so much in him , as in the way I saw him . |