Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , yes yeah , I mean , I think if I if I were to say to you , shall we sing the National Anthem , we 'd say , oh no , no , no . |
| 2 | there 's something on the radio and I were commenting on it and then he all of a sudden he played it back , oh , er , it was about then probably |
| 3 | ‘ — if I were affianced to him , ’ continued Anne without batting an eyelid , ‘ instead of — ’ |
| 4 | Floy said , slowly , ‘ If Snodgrass and I were to agree to it — ’ He stopped and Caspar said , ‘ Yes ? ’ |
| 5 | You imagine that if I were to catalogue for you the incidents of my life , and tell you all my memories , you would come to know me better . |
| 6 | Yeah she told Christie that I were going with her . |
| 7 | But , in meantime while I were waiting for them to ring me I were that mad ! |
| 8 | I were talking to him on Friday , and er , I mean , they 've not been down there five minutes . |
| 9 | I were talking to her for about half an hour . |
| 10 | Well if I know who they are and I do n't know where they come from I 'll just put who they are day I were talking to them and dash it . |
| 11 | Like a , thousands more , and another thing we knew we we very often , my wife and I were talking about it only the other day , there was an old saying that er er Percy White 's out of prison . |
| 12 | What I was on about me ringing is , she were talking in town , I says , oh , you know we 're Bi I says if ever , I were talking about you first off |
| 13 | Now if I were to suggest to you that in some gay bars the ‘ lads ’ pop off to the toilets that number of times to indulge themselves , then you might think I was repeating lurid propaganda put about by the puritan league . |
| 14 | I was going mad : my mum was swearing at me , I was swearing at her ; finally I just lost my temper and said . |
| 15 | After the race they seemed to be coming up a little more , and by the time we arrived back in Britain I was covered in them . |
| 16 | I was in my room sorting out what I was to take with me when I heard the front door . |
| 17 | As I was called by you on Question 16 , only to be discourteously interrupted by the hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) , will you refer to the Procedure Committee whether or not such an interruption should be permitted as a means of closing a question , or whether Members should be afforded the courtesy of asking their question , after such an interruption , when Question Time ends ? |
| 18 | ‘ I was looking for you all over . |
| 19 | But when I looked down , I saw the board was all made of bones and wire ; and I screamed and you said , " Swim — everybody swim " ; and then I was looking for you everywhere and trying to drag you out of a hole in the bank . |
| 20 | I was looking for you . |
| 21 | They took hold of each other with an awkward kind of formality , and he said , ‘ I was looking for you earlier . ’ |
| 22 | I was looking for you . |
| 23 | I was looking for you earlier . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I was looking for you , Robert . |
| 25 | ‘ No , I was looking for you and I would n't have figured you for this particular humming and vibrant example of the capital 's nightscene . ’ |
| 26 | I wondered what he was up to when I spotted him coming back inside while I was looking for you . ’ |
| 27 | I was looking for it . |
| 28 | ‘ I was looking on you as my date tonight . ’ |
| 29 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 30 | I thought when I was looking at her talking and I thought , you 're a school mistress . |