Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ You let him believe Oliver and I were moving into his territory ? ’ |
| 32 | 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 ] ? |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Perhaps a fortnight later Brian and I were sent with Minna to join them at Jaipur , where they were guests of the Maharajah . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware , for example , that when my wife and I were strolling along Blackpool promenade during the recent summer , I was accosted by a Territorial Army recruiting sergeant and put under enormous pressure to join the TA ? |
| 37 | ‘ — if I were affianced to him , ’ continued Anne without batting an eyelid , ‘ instead of — ’ |
| 38 | ‘ Besides — ’ said Anne who had not been listening , but pursuing her own line of thought ‘ — if I were affianced to Prince Edward , the marriage could be completed in a year or so — instead of delayed for Heaven knows how long ! ’ |
| 39 | ‘ Peters is what they give me 'cause I were born in St Peter 's Hospital … the Old Mint … the Poorhouse . ’ |
| 40 | You see I were born in nineteen hundred so that means to say that when it 's nineteen ninety eight I 'll be ninety eight , I think they did that so I could er reckon me age up more easily . |
| 41 | my granddad yeah , yeah but my granddad , he 's Scotch my other granddad was a German , me grandma were Jewish and I were born in London so let them fathom that out . |
| 42 | I were born in forty seven . |
| 43 | I were born in forty seven |
| 44 | ‘ Katy and I were living in a small flat and we were so low that we did n't even bother with a Christmas tree . |
| 45 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | The exhibition was crowded and I felt that , really , this was for Hungarians , as though I were intruding on a private grief . |
| 48 | Tom and I were led through the mock-Thirties-liner interior to a table in a rather draughty corner , and were brought freezing spritzers , black bread and tempting French menus . |
| 49 | Both Benjamin and I were lost in our own thoughts and I was mystified by Agrippa 's revelations . |
| 50 | Some weeks later my brother and I were passing through London , and I asked if I might bring him to see her . |
| 51 | I felt as if I were drowning in sleep . |
| 52 | Since I was unprepared , lacking a condom , she and I were endangered from two directions in another sense also : from disease ( for we were strangers to each other ) , and from a pregnancy desired by neither of us . |
| 53 | I were resting before Coronation Street |
| 54 | Panel ( A ) : Nuclei treated with different concentrations of DNase I were digested with Kpn I , the blot probed with 5' Ea Sac I/Sal I ( Sc/S ) ( see Panel ( d ) filled box for exact location ) . |
| 55 | Panel ( B ) : Nuclei treated with different concentrations of DNase I were digested with Eco RI and the blot probed with Ea 695 ( P/K ) . |
| 56 | Gastric juice ammonium concentration , antral histology , and serum concentrations of gastrin and pepsinogen I were examined in nine H pylori positive and nine H pylori negative uraemic patients . |
| 57 | She thought he would say nothing more , then he went on slowly , ‘ Gabriella and I were engaged for only three months . |
| 58 | He said : ‘ I was intrigued to read in the Observer newspaper that the Chancellor and I were engaged in a furious row on this subject . |
| 59 | That 's during the war yes and er , of course this is the first world war I were referring to and erm , the people appreciated this and we used to give it to them like you know . |
| 60 | Certainly my bank manager would take a dim view if I were to indulge in widespread massive discounting — margins are not that generous to begin with ! |