Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time I took a big breath I were getting short pains all down this side ? |
| 2 | Said I was to take extra care to keep your ears warm , specially with this wind . |
| 3 | I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques . |
| 4 | I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques . |
| 5 | I was singing little Hareton to sleep when Catherine came in . |
| 6 | Oh I was bored to tears and I was eating whole time |
| 7 | I was watching Central News , Mr was on it and all , like you know that bloke that comes in with his wife with the grey hair that 's always really moody , they have a bottle of Frascati and always drink las |
| 8 | Although we are n't a politically active family , I was discussing Prime Minister John Major 's plan for a classless society with my sister Lynn when my niece Natalie said : ‘ Will this mean we wo n't have to go to school any more ? ’ |
| 9 | I was crouching just feet away , terrified that at any moment one of the massive males would charge into me in the desperate struggle . |
| 10 | It was my lunch hour and I was dressed classic BR Clerk Chic ( beer-stained jacket , tightly knotted skinny tie , crimplene shiny ass pants and shoes with animal tracks and a useful compass in the heel ) . |
| 11 | I was made head girl there and captain of the senior hockey team . |
| 12 | I was sprinting full tilt across the playground , with the ‘ bad boy ’ of the year hot on my heels , as it was ‘ boys after girls ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I was wearing lime-green chiffon and my mother 's emeralds . |
| 14 | Since I was wearing posh garden visiting attire — a pair of thin striped leggings , white leather ballet pumps , a halterneck top , a cute bolero cardigan and dangly earrings — we were only planning to leave the car for some air . |
| 15 | I think that because I was wearing dark clothes and not giggling , he saw me as a challenge . |
| 16 | I went cold with horror — I was wearing odd shoes ! |
| 17 | People would occasionally point out that I was wearing odd shoes , but it really did n't seem to matter . |
| 18 | ‘ Not in the conventional sense , but I was given moral codes of conduct to follow . ’ |
| 19 | I was given anti- depressants , that did n't help and it was n't until four years later when they actually admitted me to hospital and then an ulcer and the depression disappeared once it had been diagnosed . |
| 20 | Obviously I was learning new things all the time and each day we built on what we had learned the day before . |
| 21 | I was learning bad language . |
| 22 | And I was thinking awful things — like how I could get my revenge … ’ |
| 23 | I did n't know it then but I was receiving subliminal training for later business life . |
| 24 | But you see , the Reverend has a distant relative whom he means to put in my place and so I was granted sick leave over the holiday in order that his dear Jonathan could come and assist him with the Christmas services . |
| 25 | With my own two children , I felt cheerful and reasonably well during the first pregnancy ; the bonding process with the baby was immediate and passionate , but nine months later I was seeking medical help for exhaustion . |
| 26 | I remember years ago , when I was teaching slow learners in a Child Guidance clinic , a little girl from a small village was reading a story in which reference was made to someone ‘ cheeking the dinner lady . ’ |
| 27 | Oh I 'm really pleased about that , cos last time on a , I was really disappointed I 'd been refused the course cos I thought oh , it 'll be right up my street that , cos when I was teaching full time I was quite into these er computers at the beginning and the one that went |
| 28 | So I , I was earning good money . |
| 29 | ‘ Like the good doctor Scawsby , I was completing certain errands — Scawsby was buying medicines for the Queen , ’ he yawned , ‘ I , of course , for the Lord Cardinal . ’ |
| 30 | Indeed erm I can say this now er that at that time , unknown to the top management of I was buying large quantities of leather from my old firm it into the town , right past the front door of my old offices which were now the hea the local headquarters of our and selling them , literally , within sight of the building that used to be the place where I operated from on their behalf . |