Example sentences of "and [pers pn] were [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time my mother and me were getting on just a little bit better . |
| 2 | I could n't stop him and I was so frightened that horse , machine and me were going over that I jumped off . |
| 3 | Adrian and me were going out and all that , I just did n't notice anything else . |
| 4 | I gave the old man a tip , and soon Mrs M. and I were speeding back to Ballina . |
| 5 | After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one . |
| 6 | Eventually Frankie and I were called in by Mum and told to get a wash and change as it was nearly time to go . |
| 7 | So Derek and I were called in . |
| 8 | The roller-coaster cliff-top walk was tiring but both Vanessa and I were spurred on as we approached the final climb up Golden Cap . |
| 9 | What if Mercia and I were to take over Northumbria ? ’ |
| 10 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 11 | What , and I were brought up in church ? |
| 12 | Late afternoon yesterday , my family and I were going up to Dunkil to visit the Bible class who About a dozen deer and one or two stags high on the hill . |
| 13 | In Tblisi , Stalin 's birthplace , my wife and I were shown around by enthusiastic Georgians from the Technological Institute . |
| 14 | Once once I opened the door and I were knocked back and all me rent and . |
| 15 | It started nineteen seventy one or seventy two , it must have been , when my predecessor and I were sat down , and we said what about a band , they all said , what band , well let's have a band , and and it started just like that , and we , we managed to get the whole of the brigade alerted to it , and we had a meeting at headquarters , to which about forty or fifty people turned up , of which two had probably blown a an instrument in the past , and there was enough enthusiasm to learn and we had a , a chap who was a musical teacher in town who was would happily teach our people you see and so we went out , we had a penny , with no help from the authority or anybody else and we got every type of brass instrument for a band on tick and we said we 'd pay for it , and er |
| 16 | One evening in mid-April , Dr Jaffery and I were walking down the Chandni Chowk heading towards the doctor 's rooms in the Ghazi-ud-Din Medresse . |
| 17 | The Clown was racing alongside and Lollo and I were showing off to him whooing and waving . |
| 18 | The rocket motor was on and you were speeding up — you were accelerating , and you thought it was gravity because there was no way to tell them apart . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You attended Edwin Garland in his last illness and you were called in at his death . |
| 20 | He tried again : ‘ When Edwin Garland collapsed in his studio and you were called in , he was lying close to one of the two easels in the studio — is that correct ? ’ |
| 21 | And you were jumping around for joy and saying |
| 22 | And you were hanging on and trying to keep your feet on the floor ! |
| 23 | And that was put into your hand and you were sent out to play . |
| 24 | I mean seven years continual dredging for seven years apart from a month they in dock and you were taking out eight hundred tonne every hopper load and some days you were doing five loads and sometimes four loads , was a lot of mud we dumped so much mud out at erm near the Cork Lightship , now you would think they would level theirself off would n't you and if they did n't that up . |
| 25 | Oh right , I 'll and then she 's moaning at him cos she wants to go and post it and you were mucking about with your C D thing or something and you were saying wait for me I 'll do this then I 'll miss the post . |
| 26 | Last time we went the , the came on and declared that it was your birthday and wished you a very happy birthday and you were standing up there , bouncing up and down . |
| 27 | and you were going out into the |
| 28 | No , the next bit I looked over me bit and you were parked up alongside me , why ? |
| 29 | We did n't find you till late , and you were curled up on the landing , outside the kitchen door . |
| 30 | Peter nodded , and we were waved through . |