Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You imagine that if I were to catalogue for you the incidents of my life , and tell you all my memories , you would come to know me better . |
| 2 | Right , so er yeah , I was looking at her a couple of cheapies in there . |
| 3 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
| 4 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 5 | I was thinking of them the other night , well they er , five at least erm they were |
| 6 | You know I did , I was entranced by them the other day . |
| 7 | now I was reading about him a few days ago |
| 8 | With a broad smile , he explained , ‘ When I was talking to him the other day , and I happened to mention that an old friend of my sister 's was coming to Ireland , and that I was going to show her round Dublin , and that we 'd agreed to meet here , and about how scatty … ’ |
| 9 | Bill : I was wondering recently what effect the AIDS hysteria has had outside the gay movement and I was talking about it a bit in a pub I use down in Sussex . |
| 10 | I was talking about it the other day and you go and it all comes , it hurts and , and it comes out and you ca n't even hold it down either cos it just comes in your mouth dribbles out the side . |
| 11 | A girl from another broken family ‘ used to sleep in the same bed as grandma — I was sleeping with her the night she was found dead the following morning . ’ |
| 12 | I am so excited , I have n't slept since I was told about it a couple of days ago . ’ |
| 13 | But I was told about it the night before I was released ! |
| 14 | But as I was going into it the sun came out , challenging the smell from the night lavatory . |
| 15 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
| 16 | As I was saying to you the other day , laddie , because I was aiming to be a fighting man I would n't get married . |
| 17 | If I was left to it the first pint would go about |