Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago . |
| 2 | I were real rubbish at school . |
| 3 | D' ya know , I got weighed on my scales other day , and I thought , I were eleven stone again . |
| 4 | Malc and I were all part of the same gang when we were 14 , sort of ‘ paired off ’ when we were 15 , and started putting our biology theory into practice at 16 . |
| 5 | As neither he nor I were long-term government servants , we were rather more critical of policies and decisions , and did our best to see that reasonable criticism was reasonably answered . |
| 6 | If a human observer sets out to interpret the " emotions " of a rat what else can he do except say of himself : " Now if I were that rat , how should I feel ? " |
| 7 | ‘ How I wish that I were that dog ! ’ |
| 8 | Terry and I were worst hit and for a couple of days I was left off the chain so that I could use the toilet whenever I needed . |
| 9 | People milled past , skirting me as though I were bad luck . |
| 10 | so he said I said I do n't have to tell you where I were last night David , I were out , so I said even if I were in it 's none of your concern I said what I do in my private time is up to me , he said well why was n't you there ? |
| 11 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
| 12 | as if I were some Arab with five gold watches up his arm . ’ |
| 13 | You are treating me as if I were another Rosette Fournier . ’ |
| 14 | So I were ten stone three . |
| 15 | I thought yours were same make . |
| 16 | I burst into tears because I was sure Mum had pawned it or sold it . |
| 17 | I whispered to Catherine that I was sure Heathcliff had heard some of what she said . |
| 18 | As the right hon. Gentleman knows , I was Chief Secretary for two years and Chancellor for one year . |
| 19 | I was chief haole , a direct descendant of Captain Cook . |
| 20 | I was nervous standing there in front of the crowd . |
| 21 | I do n't know where they got my name , or why they thought I was suitable material for their article . ’ |
| 22 | One day there were about a dozen of us there , including Dickie and myself ; I was Prime Minister at the time . |
| 23 | When I was young rugby was the love of my life , but these days I just manage a game of squash now and then . |
| 24 | When I was political editor of the Daily Mirror , Maxwell took a shine to this hat and asked me to get him one identical to it . |
| 25 | Shortly after John was born I was night-flying overhead , gaining astro-navigational experience in a battered Avro Anson . |
| 26 | I did n't realize I was multi-racial side of it . |
| 27 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 28 | ‘ I always felt partial ownership of the business throughout the 16 years I was managing director , ’ he says . |
| 29 | When I did Beyond The Fringe , I was five foot two and the rest of them were all six foot , and a lot of my comedy came out of me being small . |
| 30 | And she 's working very hard I mean , wh yesterday she was here at six o'clock , so I was long home and Wendy rang from here and she was still here . |