Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , on the other side of the door he was impatiently eyeing , Karen and I were locked in a windowless room about five feet by three , with no possibility of escape short of flushing ourselves down the lavatory . |
| 2 | ‘ Katy and I were living in a small flat and we were so low that we did n't even bother with a Christmas tree . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I was intrigued to read in the Observer newspaper that the Chancellor and I were engaged in a furious row on this subject . |
| 4 | ‘ Because we were having work done on our house , Sophie and I were staying in a rented place and it did n't have a phone . |
| 5 | MY WIFE and I were walking in the Lake District when I slipped and fell . |
| 6 | ‘ However , what upsets me is that I have heard unconfirmed rumours that some of the riders were threatening to pull out if I were put in the third row of the grid as was at first planned . |
| 7 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 8 | Miss Maton died in 1923 and about a year later I remember that my friends and I were playing in the street when there was a sudden shout from a young man . |
| 9 | It was as though I were sitting in a movie and my actions were flashing in front of my eyes . |
| 10 | One Saturday evening , when I had been apprenticed to Joe for four years , he and I were sitting in the pub , with some of the villagers , listening to Mr Wopsle . |
| 11 | One night my mother , my father and I were sitting in the dining room . |
| 12 | And I always think back to the er the time I think Edmund and I were sitting in the back garden here and deciding that we 'd go off and join the paratroopers |
| 13 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 14 | " I was looking in the window of that Primrose Cottage . |
| 15 | Good , fine , I 'm not surprised , I was looking in the wrong rate book was n't I ? |
| 16 | And I was looking in the yesterday and they sell them in You Ca n't Go Wrong for five ninety nine for Robert . |
| 17 | I tried to push her knees round but there was n't enough room ; I was wedged in the doorway , her arm still half round my neck . |
| 18 | Instead I kept silent , but inside I was singing in a very loud voice . |
| 19 | Cassock and surplice , a black cassock and white surplice once I told you that my grandmother was once living with us , she used to delight in washing my surplice and ironing it up except me when I was singing in the choir , I did n't take a , the treble solos , that was after the choir used to sister of ours at least oh twenty men , and as many lads and youths the as I say Johnny was in the choir there was er the two brothers and there was Dick was a incense boy and his father was a manager to go in the , he used to have a red cassock and surplice , but he used to Dick 's dad was the incense swinger and they used to go about swinging incense and that , I do n't suppose they do that at all now , but er your first job as a choirboy was to pump the organ it , have you ever been in the church ? |
| 20 | I was afraid that I was lost in the snow . ’ |
| 21 | I laid it on the floor and I was hit in the back . |
| 22 | The noise had an insistent quality — like a small animal gnawing away at something or gathering food and stopping every few minutes to listen , as hard as I was listening in the dark of Mr Marr 's house . |
| 23 | I tell you our night really told you One night I was standing , we were getting ready to go out to do a show and I was ironing in the kitchen and it were about six o'clock at night and all of a sudden Rudy come flying at me like this all over me , I thought Christ not this time of bleeding night ! |
| 24 | I was kicked in the back in the melee . |
| 25 | Meanwhile I was fainting in the back seat , just thinking of what that tight black mid-thigh skirt concealed . |
| 26 | I was dressed in a heavy winter coat and still wore my gloves . |
| 27 | Dad , Jack and Charlie just wore a black armband each with their Sunday suits , and I was dressed in a white lace dress with a wide black sash of silk ribbon . |
| 28 | I was dressed in a cream linen suit with a light grey silk blouse . |
| 29 | I was dressed in a stiff new black suit , a starched white shirt with ruffles , a black bowtie and gleaming black shoes . |
| 30 | Soon I was dressed in the King 's clothes , the horses were ready and we were on our way . |