Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've heard name before but I do n't know who he is cos I were n't watching it , I were upstairs , I 've only just come Hey guess what ! |
| 2 | So he says oh I said I were n't taking you this week . |
| 3 | I were n't eating it until |
| 4 | I were n't doing it all although I sort of organized it . |
| 5 | ‘ My cousin and I were just discussing you , ’ Mandy admitted cheerfully . |
| 6 | Well erm if I were then to ask you when what was your best estimate to when the programme was likely to be commenced . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | God ooh , the operation I was nearly heaving I was |
| 10 | I I was nearly doing it too . |
| 11 | ‘ Just that I was rather hoping we might have achieved that long before then . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I was rather hoping he was going to be here this afternoon . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I was rather hoping you 'd do a nice follow-up photo session for me ’ , he said slyly . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , ’ said Ian , ‘ I was rather hoping you might do that for me . |
| 15 | ‘ I was rather hoping you could tell me . |
| 16 | I was rather hoping you 'd forgotten that one . |
| 17 | It exceeds the 10½ inches , but not the 12 inches , and I was rather hoping it may be a record size . |
| 18 | Father Abbot , here is a strange saying , for she came to me when I was not seeking her at all , when I knew nothing of her . |
| 19 | I was not expecting you . ’ |
| 20 | I can honestly say I was not expecting it . |
| 21 | I was not accompanying her to the home but was treating her to a taxi all the way . |
| 22 | Of course I was not saying I see people elbowed in the face 200 times a week . |
| 23 | I was not manipulating them or elevating them artificially , so much as attempting to support talent to reach its natural level . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Today he told me to deliver a packet and I was not to tell you . |
| 25 | I was not told you were coming . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I was not told you were here . ’ |
| 27 | I was not to know it then , but once the worst of the operation and shock was over , hospital was the best bit of this accident . |
| 28 | I thought that in some way I was n't pleasing you . |
| 29 | Because I started to believe that I was n't seeing him . |
| 30 | No well I was n't accusing you Steve . |