Example sentences of "[pron] were [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and I were eating heartily when Byron threw down his fork and cried , ‘ Oh for the horrors of polite society again ! |
| 2 | I felt as if I were moving just a beat faster than everyone else . |
| 3 | I ca n't rem I were reading about when I were in hospital on er Tuesday while waiting |
| 4 | After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one . |
| 5 | And now it was as if I were sinking blissfully into a warm bath and lying there perfectly relaxed … |
| 6 | If I were taking on a new act , their ability to perform on stage would be second only to the quality of their songwriting . |
| 7 | I gave the old man a tip , and soon Mrs M. and I were speeding back to Ballina . |
| 8 | I were tidying up at half past six this morning . |
| 9 | I tell it just as it happened , from where we ran up the hill almost straight into the man ; I leave out what Andy and I were doing just before , and the man 's line about dirty , perverted things . |
| 10 | Actually , Cole was n't proposing donations to aid agencies as the ‘ solution ’ to mass starvation any more than Stuart Weir and I were doing so a few years ago . |
| 11 | And I were doing very well . |
| 12 | The Clown was racing alongside and Lollo and I were showing off to him whooing and waving . |
| 13 | I were crying again ! |
| 14 | At the time I was playing a Les Paul , which was n't my first choice because I had been playing Telecasters when Stevie ( Nicks ) and I were working together before we joined Fleetwood Mac , but when we joined the band there was an existing sound and the Telecaster was n't cutting it . |
| 15 | Oh I were making up friends I was . |
| 16 | I felt quite calm again , as divorced from my own immediate problems as if I were coming out after seeing a particularly absorbing film . |
| 17 | I were coming home one day with the with the with me shopping . |
| 18 | One November afternoon Leithen and I were coming home from a ride . |
| 19 | And then I were coming home and I were , I were really awful . |
| 20 | My start was beginning to let me down around this time — Ron and I were concentrating more on my pick-up — but I had the satisfaction of beating Calvin Smith quite comfortably . |
| 21 | If I were saying here that I do n't approve , then obviously it would be of no value , it would just be generation gap inanity , but it 's not that , and approval does n't come into the equation . |
| 22 | I backed up onto it I backed up onto it , you know , when I was do ta and I were hoovering away , I thought aye aye ! |
| 23 | Late afternoon yesterday , my family and I were going up to Dunkil to visit the Bible class who About a dozen deer and one or two stags high on the hill . |
| 24 | possibly Wednesday , well I told her I were going up Thursday or Friday so I might nip up this aft |
| 25 | ‘ You make me wish I were going ashore . ’ |
| 26 | He were parked up there well every coalman I 've pulled him about this coke stuff and I 'd seen him other day and I pulled him , explained that I were going over on April first |
| 27 | It caught me with my hand I were going so well and all of a sudden |
| 28 | I mean , look at me , I were going down Dunscroft there , you know at top of and er I 'm just driving in along and this bloody dog come over |
| 29 | It was a hurried occasion , as we were all going to catch a train : the same train , as it turned out , for Donald and I were going home to Oxford , and Ivy and Margaret were going with Herman Schrijver — the Dutch interior decorator who became the closest of her men friends — to spend a week at Woodstock , and walk in the park at Blenheim . |
| 30 | Ken Pitt : ‘ It was 1968 and David and I were going across to Germany quite often to do television shows and on one occasion , the producer whose name was Gunther Schneider , asked us if David would be interested in doing a half-hour programme with him . |