Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My responsibilities vanished but I think they suspected that if I were sacked there would be a public fuss so they had to proceed by stealth . |
| 2 | If I were given my head , which I never am or will be ( for I am impotent . |
| 3 | If I were took I would talk whatever |
| 4 | He recalls , ‘ When I was sentenced I thought I 'd be killed straight away . |
| 5 | When I was sentenced I did n't even know what two years meant . |
| 6 | Before I was hospitalised I would walk at breakneck pace for several hours each day , trying to convince myself and others that I was enjoying it . |
| 7 | Like , I suppose that way if I was hit I might stand a chance of only losing one arm or one leg . |
| 8 | When I was converted I lost er a great deal of interest , not completely , but a great deal of interest in in in fiction . |
| 9 | I was blinded What time are we gon na chuck them out tonight ? |
| 10 | When I was appreached I immediately said of course . |
| 11 | ‘ When the Trust took over eighteen years ago I was made what was called Garden Manager , and I used to run the garden and the gardeners did exactly what I wanted . |
| 12 | Once I was born we lived in New Zealand for about two years . |
| 13 | You knew when I was born what would happen to me ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I am twenty-three years old , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ and when I was born my father was a doctor in this village . |
| 15 | ‘ When I was born my parents called me Mikhail Holovich . |
| 16 | When I was born my country was a land of slaves . |
| 17 | Three years after I was born my parents decided to add another member to our family , my brother , . |
| 18 | When I was born I had cancer in my eye . |
| 19 | From the moment I was born I was a nuisance . |
| 20 | Well when i was a wee boy the loch had never looked it before the barriers was built When I was going to school Well I was born I started a co school at nineteen eighteen . |
| 21 | Well she was in her younger days but after she married Aye after I was born I ca n't mind her being away . |
| 22 | And goes when I was born I was black and my grandfather 's black so I 'm black and get called I 'm black and I 'm black but you and you 're |
| 23 | After I was born she put on a lot of weight , and although eventually she lost most of it , my birth was seen as to blame for her weight problem , and throughout my childhood she reminded me of this . |
| 24 | By the time I was born he seems to have become set in his ways . |
| 25 | I bought it a few months ago and I was assured they were waterproof . ’ |
| 26 | But I was assured it would all get done . |
| 27 | I was suprised she did n't have a fan club before . |
| 28 | more through magazines than I did at school , because in school I was taught nothing about pleasure , it was all very biological with a diagram of the male and the female , exactly what happened , there was nothing about er , sexually transmitted diseases , pleasure or abortion , contraception , nothing mentioned , only the mere basics . |
| 29 | I 'm pretty sure he does n't exist in the way I was taught he did , when I was young . |
| 30 | Because , going back to the point earlier on , erm , when I was taught I say , it was a local nurse from th er , the clinic that taught us I mean I 've nothi , nothing against elder women in their fifties and whatever , but I mean , there again , one , it should n't always be females who teach about sex , it should be males , and it should be younger people to relate |