Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tal talking about pensions Tom , the chap er cha with the office girls and that and , and checking our expense sheets , he , he er they put a notice on the board you could ante your what , in your pension , you could a put a bit more into it and I were looking at notice and he says ooh he says it 's no good for you , he says er w well I told you about it did n't I ? |
| 2 | Afterwards ( another former Lancaster student ) invited me home to tea , and in the evening , and I were entertained at home by |
| 3 | I felt as if I were drowning in sleep . |
| 4 | He was later filled with remorse for this , saying ‘ I would I were assured of pardon for that sin , though on that condition that this right hand were cut off . ’ |
| 5 | And this policeman , I were coming down Lane off over the hump back bridge . |
| 6 | ‘ Bill and I were left on stage gaping as they all got up and made for the exits . |
| 7 | Apparently Alice had told her that I were going to town with them |
| 8 | A friend and I were driving in spring to Crarae gardens near Inveraray so I could salivate over the rhododendrons , but we grew tired of travelling at seven miles an hour behind clods in caravans and on reaching the Rest And Be Thankful pulled into the side to wander about at the base of Beinn an Lochain . |
| 9 | Oh that 's where I were banging on wall ? |
| 10 | After several days of rain , my wife and I were praying for sun . |
| 11 | After several days of rain , my wife and I were praying for sun . |
| 12 | ‘ I would n't ask him for a drink of water if I were dying of thirst . |
| 13 | Gillian and I were falling in love and you 'd think we 'd have wanted to be by ourselves all the time , gazing into one another 's eyes and holding hands and going to bed together . |
| 14 | Something in all three of us knew that this was a one-off , that this was a first and last summer , because there would n't be another time when Gillian and I were falling in love as opposed to just being in love or whatever . |
| 15 | Yes , I should know if I were falling in love , she thought . |
| 16 | I have tried to explain why the hon. Member for Gateshead , East and I were talking at cross purposes . |
| 17 | At the same time Penny said of Diana : ‘ If she were to fall in love with someone prepared to go through hell , fire and water — not to mention Royal opposition — for her , she might think about separation . ’ |
| 18 | If she were to insist on veal goulash , for example , all would be lost . |
| 19 | Even as she struggled he was lifting her clear off her feet as easily as though she were made of thistledown . |
| 20 | At first she had let him wash their three-month-old child but Fred 's face had become red and perspiration stood out on his forehead as he held the mite as though she were made of china . |
| 21 | The buzzard flew to the king 's palace , waited , perching in an oak tree , until the princess came out for her evening stroll , and then picked her up and carried her back to the forest , holding her as carefully as if she were made of rose petals . |
| 22 | And the buzzard , who had been waiting hidden in the branches of- an oak tree , swooped down , picked her up as carefully as if she were made of rose petals , and carried her back to the forest . |
| 23 | As his fingers explored further , slipping inside her , moving rhythmically against her , a drowsy and confused acceptance possessed her mind while , at the same time , her body responded to his touch as though she were made of fire ; and the centre of that hotness burned deep and slow and fierce inside her , tantalizingly with the magic of Johnny 's moving fingers . |
| 24 | As though she were made of fire . |
| 25 | He thought she might not have a heart , or tried to explain away her indifference by imagining she were made of obsidian through and through . |
| 26 | In the exercise of his power of arrest , it was perfectly proper for the constable to have taken into account that ‘ there was a greater likelihood … that Mrs Mohammed-Holgate would respond truthfully to questions about her connection with or knowledge of the burglary , if she were questioned under arrest at the police station , than if , without arresting her , questions were put to her … at her own home from which she could peremptorily order [ him ] to depart at any moment ’ . |
| 27 | She felt as if she were operating on auto-pilot . |
| 28 | she were parked at side of me |
| 29 | And she were wet through , she were laid in side of cooker |
| 30 | ‘ I think these old places always have ghosts , ’ said Elizabeth as though she were talking of woodworm . |