Example sentences of "and [pers pn] were [verb] the " in BNC.
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1 | When Moira and I were passing the bandstand , I touched his arm and said , Hello , Cam . |
2 | Now I would not want to live in a country where my ex-wife and I were denied the right to another chance . ’ |
3 | Says Catherine ‘ My flatmates and I were expecting the return of our £780 deposit when we were told the agency had gone bankrupt . |
4 | Today my brother and I were catching the 7.00 am aeroplane from Newcastle to Corfu . |
5 | Whatever , the cops eventually moved on and the Englishman and I were spared the task of explaining what such an unlikely pair of lads as ourselves were doing with such a gleaming trophy . |
6 | Lee and I were feeling the tension . |
7 | By this time Sandy and I were feeling the effects of our long day and by mutual agreement we made our way back to the ship . |
8 | Ma , Patrick and I were walking the dog |
9 | I was laughing and you were getting the hump with it cos I knew I had it all on tape . |
10 | Keep two cartridges in your hand all the time , and then as soon as you 'd handed your gun , and you were taking the other one , and he was the empty one . |
11 | You were enticed by the dark magicians into their palaces and their dark citadels and you were shown the powers and the sinisterly beautiful rewards of sorcery . |
12 | Furtwängler died in November 1954 and you were offered the orchestra . |
13 | So and you were working the variable we were working with is not X but T. |
14 | If , in Lady Chatterley 's Lover , the scales were to fall from Connie 's eyes and she were to see the worship of Mellor 's phallus for what it is , a means of subordinating and oppressing women , she could free herself and develop her authentic will , ego and individuality . |
15 | Er and we were getting the impression then we were only , not wanting to decry them Bettaware salesmen or Bettaware people , you had to go round now and stick catalogues through people 's doors and go back and |
16 | Poor blighter was hanged and we were dancing the night away . |
17 | It was back in 1972 and we were testing the waters , talking about this new magazine we wanted to launch which would campaign for an end to world poverty . |
18 | We 'd arrived too late to enjoy whatever it was that the Sixties had ; and we were left the warm dregs to mull over . |
19 | And with a clearing and we were having the help of the students of course . |
20 | In short order I was to fly with ‘ Deemy ’ on Friday morning and we were to cover the 4,300 miles from Fairbanks to Irkutsk via Yakutsk in one day — about the same flying distance as from New York to London . |
21 | Dawn on Day Three and we were crossing the prairies . |
22 | We were in the 1st Div … it was the first game of the new season , and we were playing the newly promoted Swansea away . |
23 | Most of them came fro Blundell 's School and Castle Cary CC in Somerset , and they were styled the Devon & Somerset County Wanderers . |
24 | And she said it was so funny , she said , you 'd get the , the so the poorer people perhaps would use this shop and erm and yet she said , people I knew in the street erm that were Conservatives dealt at the Co-op , where it was I suppose the best buy and they were saving the divi you know , and we thought it was quite funny really . |
25 | and they were singing the territory , hello darling , they were singing their territorial songs |
26 | ‘ We pulled back two goals and they were kicking the ball anywhere to keep us out . ’ |
27 | His wife said from their Humberside in the UK : ‘ I spoke to Ricky on Christmas Day and they were cooking the mince pies . |
28 | ‘ Each time a memo was fired off and the problem was solved , but it only lasted a few days and they were using the extinguishers again , ’ he said . |
29 | Whenever she was early because there was a christening erm on and they were using the hall afterwards . |
30 | Almost before we 'd begun to really talk , visiting time was over and they were ringing the bell for everyone to leave . |