Example sentences of "i were [verb] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sergeant Morris and I were trying to stop the bleeding when you came . ’ |
| 2 | IN A desperate attempt to cheer ourselves up at one particularly gloomy moment last week , my Somerset neighbour William Rees-Mogg and I were trying to construct the scenario of what might happen if Labour scraped into power . |
| 3 | On condition that we both covered our heads , Olivia and I were invited to watch the proceedings from the rear of the crowd . |
| 4 | ‘ If I were asked to name the most important date in the history of the human race , I would answer without hesitation August 6 1945 . |
| 5 | Indeed , if I were forced to try the impossible , to imagine what it is like to be a bat , I would guess that echolocating , for them , might be rather like seeing for us . |
| 6 | If I were going to spend the time and effort to write a book , I wanted it to get to as many people as possible . |
| 7 | If I were to try to explain the little I understood about alchemy it would run through my fingers like water . |
| 8 | From Madras my wife and I were taken to see the Shore Temples at Mahabalipuram and beside this is ( or was ) a very large boulder resting on the hillside . |