Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but she said I were called one night I went with her daughter-in-law |
| 2 | We called him Boy because my elder sister and I were born first and his arrival gave great joy . |
| 3 | ‘ Would you chaps mind terribly if Barry and I were left alone ? ’ the other Rex asked . |
| 4 | I were let good . |
| 5 | ‘ I knew that I was playing with fire ’ , he confessed ; ‘ I ran the risk , and if I were set free I would still do the same . ’ |
| 6 | I were told that other day . |
| 7 | I knew the answer before I was recalled twenty minutes later , and Dr Barton pronounced judgment . |
| 8 | ‘ I was stripped naked and suspended on a crucifix , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I 'd only been there about five minutes when they came to escort me off down to Bleak House , where I was stripped naked and given a blanket and put into a cell . |
| 10 | Until I was lent this , I had not realised it was possible for members of the public to get their hands on such things . |
| 11 | The following year I was refunded three and ninepence by his successor because I had been over-charged . |
| 12 | I was fired some years after the War after an altercation with Hymie . |
| 13 | My reply was , ‘ Oh , please promote me — I was fired last time ! ’ |
| 14 | It was my lunch hour and I was dressed classic BR Clerk Chic ( beer-stained jacket , tightly knotted skinny tie , crimplene shiny ass pants and shoes with animal tracks and a useful compass in the heel ) . |
| 15 | I was made uneasy by those parading men in smart suits and dark glasses , who appeared to be a kind of confraternity of Falangists , ardent nationalists and supporters of Franco , whose picture was everywhere . |
| 16 | I was made sorry for her at first , as I would be for any young girl , crippled — it is hinted by the cruelty of her husband — and a mother , but even at the beginning there is a niggling doubt that she is rather superficial and shallow . |
| 17 | I was made redundant less than a year after I became a Sheffield city councillor , and I 've never believed in those sorts of coincidences . |
| 18 | I wo n't be rushing out to spend big this Christmas because I was made redundant a few weeks ago and have had no luck finding another job . |
| 19 | A few days later , I was made redundant . |
| 20 | Er you one must be reminded that er it 's only three weeks today from when I was made redundant |
| 21 | I was made redundant when I was fifty eight by Welwyn Garden City when er Welwyn Garden City that 's er I was unemployed . |
| 22 | Two years later when I was sixty and four months I was made redundant quite happy . |
| 23 | I was made redundant in the summer.Ity 's a chicken and egg thing . |
| 24 | I was made nervous , but was careful not to seem so . |
| 25 | I was made head girl there and captain of the senior hockey team . |
| 26 | I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict . |
| 27 | For the first time in my life I was made conscious of not being able to control my own situation . |
| 28 | When , in 1986 , I collected a new Nissan car that a sponsor had bought for me , I was stopped four times in one day because the car was new and , as I had been told frequently enough by the police when I worked on Ealing Community Relations Council , black men ca n't afford new cars . |
| 29 | I was stopped short by torchlight in my face . |
| 30 | On a visit to New York that summer I was stopped short by an elaborate poster on 47th Street welcoming all to Danny 's Den for drinks and food , and to see the appearance of ‘ the one and only Miss Ella Shields ( from London , England ) , the Original Burlington Bertie ’ . |