Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [verb] the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Sergeant Morris and I were trying to stop the bleeding when you came . ’ |
2 | IN A desperate attempt to cheer ourselves up at one particularly gloomy moment last week , my Somerset neighbour William Rees-Mogg and I were trying to construct the scenario of what might happen if Labour scraped into power . |
3 | On condition that we both covered our heads , Olivia and I were invited to watch the proceedings from the rear of the crowd . |
4 | ‘ If I were asked to name the most important date in the history of the human race , I would answer without hesitation August 6 1945 . |
5 | Indeed , if I were forced to try the impossible , to imagine what it is like to be a bat , I would guess that echolocating , for them , might be rather like seeing for us . |
6 | If I were going to spend the time and effort to write a book , I wanted it to get to as many people as possible . |
7 | If I were to try to explain the little I understood about alchemy it would run through my fingers like water . |
8 | From Madras my wife and I were taken to see the Shore Temples at Mahabalipuram and beside this is ( or was ) a very large boulder resting on the hillside . |
9 | When I went to Beverley on Easter Sunday 1987 I was invited to join the choristers on the roof . |
10 | Our Borders MP was David Steel ( who had beaten Robin McEwen at the by-election which won him the seat ) and as a member of his local Liberal party , I was invited to join the Scottish Liberal Party 's Council . |
11 | In the middle of these difficulties I was invited to visit the Chicago headquarters of Binks Manufacturing ( Binks Bullows 's parent company ) to negotiate selling the machine to the US . |
12 | It was as a result of this withdrawal that I was invited to write the paper ( Currie , 1979 ) . |
13 | Seeing my interest was now aroused , I was invited to try the unit myself on a day 's diving . |
14 | I was tempted to use the quay , but did n't . |
15 | Years later , when I heard that Inez had left her husband and that the police were investigating her disappearance , I was tempted to carry the matter a little further . |
16 | In attempting to answer this question , I was tempted to follow the Economist and define services as : ‘ anything sold in trade that could not be dropped on your foot ’ . |
17 | I 'd had some sailing instruction before on Lake Bala , in a larger Wayfarer which has room for two people and an instructor , but I found that I was tending to leave the thinking to my partner and the instructor , and just doing what I was told without knowing why . |
18 | So I was delegated to broach the subject with Paul Coleman . |
19 | Richards , 40 , said : ‘ I was flattered to receive the offer , but morally I could not accept . |
20 | As I approached it I reached out my talons to land and perhaps the prey I was holding obscured the view for I should have seen sooner what had been put on top of the post by Men . |
21 | There was the occasion I was sent to report the speech day at West Bank School , a private school , in Bideford . |
22 | There was a longer wait when I was sent to interview the Rolling Stones . |
23 | And then I was sent to retrieve the balls from the headmaster 's garden . |
24 | I was hoping to see the Seychelles black parrot , which has never been recorded from any island other than Praslin . |
25 | I was hoping to get the chance to see the new Beethoven opera . |
26 | With a sigh he admitted , ‘ I was hoping to find the ring quickly . ’ |
27 | I was hoping to film the kits growing up and discovering the world around them , but before they were old enough to fend for themselves , a fisherman trapped and killed the mother . |
28 | " I was wanting to see the kids , " he said when Mr Blakey came closer . |
29 | And it was right one evening , at an art college gig where I was helping lug the gear to the van . |
30 | ‘ On clay courts I was trained to make the other guy play tennis all day . |