Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not as though I were writing a new book , ’ Elinor said crossly . |
| 2 | Today my brother and I were catching the 7.00 am aeroplane from Newcastle to Corfu . |
| 3 | If I were wearing a next-to-nothing nightie and he was sitting on my bed , I 'd be having serious trouble breathing too ! |
| 4 | I were flying the next day to Benidorm I 've had trouble all the time with me back |
| 5 | It 's the sort of ’ You stupid boy , stop trying to drown yourself ’ speech I can imagine I would deliver if I were dragging a recalcitrant lad back to land . |
| 6 | If I were interviewing a new act , I would try to ascertain their sheer punishment factor . |
| 7 | There was this rather famous instance where he had to scrub the floor while Pamela and I were having a long and involved discussion , but I was told that people could n't take their eyes off him . |
| 8 | Without noticing it , while I was looking the other way , I had become old ; so old that I was an ‘ old lady ’ , known as such at the village school . |
| 9 | I was looking the other day , when I was looking for some of these things . |
| 10 | I was looking the wrong way . |
| 11 | I was looking the wrong way . |
| 12 | The ribber tucked stitches because I was using a different colour — dyes can alter the tension quite considerably . |
| 13 | ‘ When I was working in Bishopsgate I was using a different method , ’ Dexter explained . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , I was using a few of them . |
| 15 | ‘ Before the Firebird I was using an old Gibson ES-175 up until about 1971 , ’ details Sonny . |
| 16 | I remember this fear quite distinctly as that of being swallowed up into some great emptiness : the struggle for individual identity , central to phenomenon of anorexia nervosa , had already begun , and already I was using the appropriate metaphor . |
| 17 | Suddenly , one of the organisers called my number , I had to take off my socks and shoes as you had to do the jump in bare feet and I had to go over to get weighed again on different scales to make sure I was using the correct cord ( they were very safety conscious about every aspect of the jump ) . |
| 18 | But I was dreading the French paper to which I had only given the dregs of my time as I had had so much else on my plate . |
| 19 | I was dreading the inevitable hitching to Ullapool . |
| 20 | ‘ I was acting the other times , yes . ’ |
| 21 | In 1988 , I was producing a major women 's conference at the Barbican and we needed a big bank of flowers . |
| 22 | I was calling the L-shaped room home for the first time , and thinking of it as such . |
| 23 | I was calling the white bag . |
| 24 | Then I went to work in a five and ten , and gradually worked my way up until I was managing a general store . |
| 25 | I was eating a Milky Way and it collapsed . |
| 26 | Last night I dreamt I was eating a rubber NME . |
| 27 | I was chatting the other week to a chap called Peter Davenport . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh yes , I was watching the six o'clock news . |
| 29 | Mm , what , something I what I was watching the other night erm , what on earth was , something , it was nineteen forty seven that were , it was er , it was an old repeat |
| 30 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |