Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I were trying to get through to her . |
| 2 | Having asked about Shropshire 's youth and their existence within the diocese , my friend Clare and I were invited to take on the role of Shropshire 's Youth Representatives . |
| 3 | I told him that if he did n't cut out the vicious behaviour , Brian and I were going to cut out the co-operation , we 'd stop eating . |
| 4 | We were woken up at 5.30 am , and Alex and I were told to go over to the kitchens to fetch the breakfast . |
| 5 | Sometimes my brothers and I were allowed to get out of the car with him and peek at the movie in progress while he spoke to the manager or cashier . |
| 6 | I was invited to join in but always found excuses not to do so , saying that I had early afternoon lessons . |
| 7 | Then , on a weekend 's trip to Grayshotts Health Farm to recharge the batteries and the credit cards , I attended a lecture on meditation given by a simply marvellous , crumply GP with about as much airy-fairy , guru-y wispiness as , say , Denis Healey , and I was moved to find out more . |
| 8 | I was dressed to stay in and write : everything ripped and paint-stained . |
| 9 | Until 1978 that is , when we had the first and last National Conference in this country and after spending about three days cooking rice and feeling very exhausted , I went up on the platform to speak on behalf of Chi lean women and I was made to shut up . |
| 10 | I was learning to shut out the daily discomforts , however , either by looking around , or by playing mental games . |
| 11 | ‘ Who said I was goin' to wash up ? |
| 12 | I was hoping to get back to council work before Christmas , but I recognise that if I rush , it I will only set me back . |
| 13 | One minute I was a ploughman ; the next I was scrambling to get out from under an interrogator 's lamp . |
| 14 | Just when I was intending to go out for my tuna sandwich , there arrived what I believe they call the full panoply of the Law , in the shape of an Inspector called Bush , and his Sergeant . |
| 15 | At first there was a lack of trust between us : I thought they were not trying hard enough as we went over and over the same issues ; they thought I was trying to take over . |
| 16 | I was trying to pick up youngish artists who had had some recognition like Patrick Hughes . |
| 17 | All the time I was trying to blank out previous situations from my mind . |
| 18 | My voice had risen a good half-octave and my hands were waggling around on the end of my arms as though I was trying to shake off bits of Sellotape . |
| 19 | Well this is this is what I was trying to work out looking at the banking erm module that Sia , Sandra 's just given me could for the nine weeks right ? |
| 20 | Well I was looking out the other side cos I was trying to work out where Glynis lived . |
| 21 | But I was trying to work out how , how , how the composer should kill them , whether he |
| 22 | ‘ I just happened to discover it last spring , when I was trying to find out more about the d'Urbervilles and noticed your name in the village . ’ |
| 23 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 24 | Cos I was trying to keep out , it 's too much for him , he 's |
| 25 | Gerald said : ‘ I suppose somebody could have been in there doing the old man while I was trying to get in . |
| 26 | Gerald , pretending to a savoir faire he did not possess ; ‘ I suppose somebody could have been in there doing the old man while I was trying to get in … ’ |
| 27 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view that I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that beauty is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 28 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that ‘ beauty ’ is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 29 | and then I was trying to come out and I started to pull out into a gap and Brian said oh know , do n't pull out I said oh okay , he said the thing is your fairly tight so your gon na have to come out slowly so you need a bigger gap than otherwise . |
| 30 | I was trying to catch up with you , but I could n't . ’ |