Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were just looking at this . |
| 2 | I were just pretending to him , because I ai n't really full of beans . |
| 3 | ‘ The little lady and I were just talkin' about where to have dinner . ’ |
| 4 | And the manager the un the the deputy met me he says , And I were just going down main road at nighttime as me dad were coming up . |
| 5 | I were just talking about you to Maggie then . |
| 6 | I were only saying to a lady this morning about ee aye our Emma used to come to Leyland with a a wad of ten shilling notes new and we 'd go to er Southport would n't we ? |
| 7 | I must have accepted the prospect of this baby with a vengeance , if I were seriously thinking of knitting as a desirable occupation . |
| 8 | I do n't know why , but it seemed important to me to establish that we have n't any fuse-boxes ( and indeed we have n't ) , but she would n't allow this and was quite stern with me about it as if I were deliberately lying to her . |
| 9 | He knew that he was oversensitive to the timbre of the human voice and hers , although not jarring or unpleasant , sounded a little forced as if she were deliberately speaking at an unnatural pitch . |
| 10 | Had Becky got there before him , he wondered , even if she were only living in digs ? |
| 11 | In fact , however , we now owe you money , since you were effectively acting as a salesman ! |
| 12 | well you were probably looking at er |
| 13 | If you were n't actually having a ‘ sleep-argument ’ you were probably dreaming about having one . |
| 14 | ‘ You were probably crawling into prehistoric graves , ’ I remarked . |
| 15 | What needs to be done before you move in — repair or installation work that would make life very uncomfortable for you if you were already living on the premises . |
| 16 | So the reason I asked that question is because I wanted to see if you were already thinking like an archaeologist . |
| 17 | Er although erm basically speaking you were normally talking about basic rates rather than earnings . |
| 18 | ‘ You were just looking at it , when we drove in . ’ |
| 19 | They occupy the time that seems vacant , as if you were just hanging around doing nothing — but where in reality the well is filling up , where you are gathering together the material that will make up your narrative ; rearranging it , transforming it . |
| 20 | You were just pandering to prejudices — ‘ |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't tell me you were just passing by ? |
| 22 | Yeah that 's right that 's right you were just waiting for me to say Tom were n't you yes yes that 's fine . |
| 23 | I thought you were still mad at me for carrying on my work and then I thought you were just waiting for Maria Luisa to come back before … oh , before making your decision … ’ |
| 24 | You you were just saying about us not knowing . |
| 25 | funny mind , we were just speaking about funerals not that long ago and you were just saying like er you remember the , when he died , |
| 26 | Well you were just talking about children erm my feeling is that we 're all children , there is no division between being a child and an adult and I think that they can accept a whole lot , but there 's a whole lot of adults that ca n't accept the shocks that are happening today and they put them into their subconscious and unfortunately it comes out in so many other ways — it comes over as a neurosis or as a mental disorder at some later date . |
| 27 | ‘ What do you think Father and Mother would say if they knew you were even thinking of going off with those kids — and at this time of night ! |
| 28 | And that 's another one , you know : she would die of shame if she knew that you were even looking at a Felton , never mind expressing affection for one . |
| 29 | Perhaps you were even wondering about Dennis 's death . |
| 30 | After a decade of being made to feel that you were somehow lacking as a person if you did n't manage to cram thrice-weekly workouts into your schedule , it was high time that a good reason not to exercise emerged . |