Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have reason to believe that if I were to ask you the time you would n't be able to accommodate me . |
| 2 | It was as if I were doing him a big favour . |
| 3 | Fact that I was calling him a murderer had nothing to do with it . |
| 4 | Thank you very much indeed for the smelly duck — or should I say scented , it is such a nice smell ! — and for the pretty scarf which , you may be surprised to hear , Mark admired when I was wearing it the other day though he had n't realized it was new and from you ! |
| 5 | Which which company if I was to give you a choice , and the luxury that most recruiters do n't have . |
| 6 | Erm if I was to give you an option a choice of which market area you think you would be most happy with , where do you think ? |
| 7 | I was teaching them the fine art of drinking Tequila Slammers , one of the fastest ways of getting spifflicated known to man . |
| 8 | Well , it 's funny , I was telling Stephen , my boyfriend , about that , and I was telling him the question and he said |
| 9 | In the Anglo-Italian Cup , group A , the other game being played in this country tonight as I was telling you a short while ago , Bolton nil , Brescia one , the goal scorer after three . |
| 10 | I was telling you the truth . |
| 11 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 12 | Erm I 'm , I admit er that that was one I just bolted simply because I was taking it the wrong way round , I thought we had identified what was the priority , life insurance , P H I and pensions and was summarizing it whereas I should 've realized we 're doing that page towards the priority |
| 13 | I was expecting you a little bit earlier actually , I think perhaps you got the times wrong I was |
| 14 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
| 15 | My mum said , she 's going my mum said , she was going to sign in because she was late , and then I was giving her a pen like |
| 16 | On that morning I was giving them the latest news of Nigel . |
| 17 | I thought I was giving you a lift |
| 18 | no , no , I was giving you an example to what would happen on the time scale , but let me go back to January nineteen eighty seven , if the brochure was printed in January nineteen eighty seven if the brochure was printed in January nineteen eighty seven and I went to buy in March , April , May nineteen eighty eight , the figures in the service charges would be out of date |
| 19 | Although unladen with any climbing gear — even the daysack was being carried by Singi — I was finding it a hard struggle to make upward progress in the thin , cold air ; surprisingly more so than on Mera Peak when ice-axe , crampons and heavy climbing boots had been used . |
| 20 | ‘ Does remembering how awed I was give you a thrill ? |
| 21 | ‘ I was showing her a bird , ’ Mandy interrupted , turning and wrinkling her nose in playful warning at Charity . |
| 22 | If I was to enter it a number , one O two . |
| 23 | Of course , in thinking like this , I was doing him a great injustice : the change was not so much in him , as in the way I saw him . |
| 24 | As it turned out , I was doing him a service . ’ |
| 25 | I was doing him a favour looking after the house over Christmas . ’ |
| 26 | I was doing it the other day yes . |
| 27 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |