Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [v-ing] [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 | I felt as if I were drowning in sleep . |
| 3 | And this policeman , I were coming down Lane off over the hump back bridge . |
| 4 | Apparently Alice had told her that I were going to town with them |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Oh that 's where I were banging on wall ? |
| 7 | After several days of rain , my wife and I were praying for sun . |
| 8 | After several days of rain , my wife and I were praying for sun . |
| 9 | ‘ I would n't ask him for a drink of water if I were dying of thirst . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Yes , I should know if I were falling in love , she thought . |
| 13 | I have tried to explain why the hon. Member for Gateshead , East and I were talking at cross purposes . |
| 14 | She felt as if she were operating on auto-pilot . |
| 15 | ‘ I think these old places always have ghosts , ’ said Elizabeth as though she were talking of woodworm . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | An hour later Sophie left the pet shop feeling as though she were walking on air . |
| 18 | She also felt as if she were sitting in front of a bespectacled lunatic who was making things up as he went along . |
| 19 | Lisa looked at her as if she were suffering from softening of the brain . |
| 20 | She laughed again as Claudia said that once was too much , and from then on she treated Claudia as if she were going on holiday with the man of her dreams . |
| 21 | She braced herself as if she were going into battle , blurting the truth out as she clasped her hands together until the knuckles stood out like bleached bones . |
| 22 | She had n't planned it deliberately , but she even looked as if she were heading into battle , clad in a flying suit , flat boots and a bomber jacket , her long hair captured in a plait . |
| 23 | She heard the sounds of the battle ; she could not even croak out a song to him , for her tongue clove to her palate as if , while her baby drank , she were dying of thirst . |
| 24 | She felt as if she were floating on air . |
| 25 | She felt as if she were floating in limbo , beyond conscience , beyond responsibility and even beyond reality . |
| 26 | With his eyes closed he could see her as clearly as if she were standing in front of him . |
| 27 | Carrie felt as if she were falling through space ; falling and falling with the air pressing her chest and making her gasp . |
| 28 | I think you were teaching at night school . |
| 29 | One thing baffles me about that , Lord Wilson : you were Prime Minister , you were the boss , you were presiding over Cabinet government . |
| 30 | Until a few weeks ago you were jumping with passion . |