Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , for example , the lecture I 'm going to give you today is n't reflected at all in Arnold erm so er I think it 'd be helpful if I were to give you some indication of when there were and when there were n't . |
| 2 | I was watching you all the time you were out there , so you were perfectly safe . ’ |
| 3 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 4 | ‘ I was picturing her face when I said I was seeing you this evening . ’ |
| 5 | I was feeding him some biscuits and then went to kick a ball . |
| 6 | I was work la last week and I erm I got ta scrub my nails after done everything anyway like every , like after I made the sandwiches , I scrub my nails after I 've been washing up , scrub my nails so I was scrubbing them all day Saturday , last week and it still did n't come out . |
| 7 | What , it does Ma , ma just killed a man , I was given him some |
| 8 | I was thinking it another room bigger . |
| 9 | Telling us all how we would have to adapt in various minor ways to changing circumstances , but that basically our lives would carry on very much as normal — and it was weird , I was wanting them all to believe him , and him to be telling the truth . |
| 10 | ‘ They became the rage and I was delivering them all day in the Rolls , ’ said Crawford . |
| 11 | " Aye , I was givin' 'er some hay . |
| 12 | I was reading it this morning . ’ |
| 13 | I was enjoying it all in a mildly responsive sort of way . |
| 14 | Erm just remembering say I had to put four O Hs with N H , I was sometimes I was getting it right sometimes I was getting it wrong and stuff like that . |
| 15 | The last thing I wanted was to find myself slithering down the steep craggy section above the corrie , having mistakenly bypassed the Y-shaped gully that led back to the car , yet I could sense I was getting it all a bit wrong . |
| 16 | The Ray-Bans and all that , I was getting it all for her for Christmas . ’ |
| 17 | Erm just remembering say I had to put four O Hs with N H , I was sometimes I was getting it right sometimes I was getting it wrong and stuff like that . |
| 18 | Did n't know she was getting it , I was getting it this morning . |
| 19 | Jean I was telling you all my problems . |
| 20 | Erm why do you think well why do you think I was telling you that ? |
| 21 | ‘ I was expecting you last Wednesday . ‘ |
| 22 | I think I was expecting it all to be much worse , but I enjoyed it and could honestly say that it was one of the best days of my life . |
| 23 | I broke my nail I was biting it last night . |
| 24 | At the back of my mind , perhaps , was a kind of childish vanity : there is a lot of dull , humdrum work to be done in local politics and I felt Richard would not be impressed if he knew I was abandoning him three nights a week in order to address envelopes or collect jumble . |
| 25 | ‘ I was out with Annsley one evening and I was giving him some stick about not putting something back into the game , ’ said Armstrong . |
| 26 | I was standing there and I was going I had the two pound in my pocket like but there 's no way I was giving her two pound so Bitch |
| 27 | I was finding him unreachable — except in bed . |
| 28 | It seemed to be essential to her sense of identity , but I was finding it wearisome . |
| 29 | But I was thankful when the summer holiday started and I could be released from duties I was finding it harder and harder to cope with . |
| 30 | I was to keep them safe and eventually give them to anyone who survived . |