Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was as if I were doing him a big favour .
2 Thank you very much indeed for the smelly duck — or should I say scented , it is such a nice smell ! — and for the pretty scarf which , you may be surprised to hear , Mark admired when I was wearing it the other day though he had n't realized it was new and from you !
3 I was teaching them the fine art of drinking Tequila Slammers , one of the fastest ways of getting spifflicated known to man .
4 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 .
5 Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out
6 Erm I 'm , I admit er that that was one I just bolted simply because I was taking it the wrong way round , I thought we had identified what was the priority , life insurance , P H I and pensions and was summarizing it whereas I should 've realized we 're doing that page towards the priority
7 I was expecting you a little bit earlier actually , I think perhaps you got the times wrong I was
8 ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … .
9 On that morning I was giving them the latest news of Nigel .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 I was doing it the other day yes .
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