Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My cousin and I were just discussing you , ’ Mandy admitted cheerfully . |
| 2 | Well erm if I were then to ask you when what was your best estimate to when the programme was likely to be commenced . |
| 3 | Although their ancestors are native to the soft , acid waters of the Amazon , commercially available fish are happy in the conditions of most community tanks , and if yours were locally bred they are probably used to your tap water . |
| 4 | The Shelley menage was established close by — ‘ Just a grape 's stamp across the vineyard , ’ as he put it — in a property called Campagne Chapuis : the Villa Chapuis , as I was later to hear it called , more grandly . |
| 5 | God ooh , the operation I was nearly heaving I was |
| 6 | I I was nearly doing it too . |
| 7 | ‘ Just that I was rather hoping we might have achieved that long before then . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was rather hoping he was going to be here this afternoon . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I was rather hoping you 'd do a nice follow-up photo session for me ’ , he said slyly . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , ’ said Ian , ‘ I was rather hoping you might do that for me . |
| 11 | ‘ I was rather hoping you could tell me . |
| 12 | I was rather hoping you 'd forgotten that one . |
| 13 | It exceeds the 10½ inches , but not the 12 inches , and I was rather hoping it may be a record size . |
| 14 | Oh , I 'm I 'm sorry I did n't , I was sa , I was simply suggested it used to be , I mean it did originally start as a |
| 15 | Er I drunk erm I think I drunk two two cans or maybe three cans of Scrumpy Jack and then a can of Supertricks and I was well gone I , I had to pass out . |
| 16 | I was just holding him down and I got a hammering from the locals . |
| 17 | It 's a pity Les came when that Major Barber was on , I was just enjoying it |
| 18 | I was just enjoying it |
| 19 | I was just telling him , they 've got big ones like that about that size I think in in Woolworths . |
| 20 | No well I was , I was just telling him something and I said I 'm not telling you till er ten thirty just to keep him in suspense . |
| 21 | ‘ I was just telling you about this girl and what her mother said on the night before she got married to the sailor . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I was just telling you , ’ said Dorcas . |
| 23 | ‘ I was just telling you that I reckon it was a good idea — to wait a day before going back to New York , ’ Carole repeated , smiling to herself at the other girl 's slightly abstracted expression . |
| 24 | the ordinary the thing I was just telling you dad |
| 25 | When we were reading it I found that I was just reading it as a book and the and that all the coming about you forget who 's in , who 's there and who 's not there . |
| 26 | I was just thinking it was very mean of me to have ordered sea-horse-on-toast for my tea … |
| 27 | all green , all green along there I wonder I was just thinking it 's got all the bits in it to make that other one go |
| 28 | I was just thinking it would be quite convenient would n't it ? |
| 29 | Yes , I was just thinking it 'll be hilarious . |
| 30 | I was just thinking I 'm going to MacDonalds on Thursday so I 'll look out for that . |