Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |
| 2 | And then er I were telling you about the er where the marshes was n't I . |
| 3 | Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that . |
| 4 | That was my auntie and that was the l the woman who gave me that tea set I were telling you about . |
| 5 | I were telling you about Irene , I were filling this thing in and I put right , sixty four I were gon na put sixty four , that were it . |
| 6 | I were telling you about that sugar place , we 're doing it again . |
| 7 | Some of you er may take it amiss if I were to describe you as veterans but my by contrast , this is my first annual public meeting and not just as chairman . |
| 8 | If I were to put it in er stewed apples or something I would n't eat the actual ginger but in a casserole , it 's nice . |
| 9 | If I were to ask you for your address , what would you do ? |
| 10 | The idea was I was using them as sub-headings originally but then people were kept y'know slowing d it 's erm very hard to work out whether what you actually want is a good detailed set of notes . |
| 11 | ‘ Never once , during our association , did they guess that I was using them to further my revenge against the Wolfkings . |
| 12 | ‘ I knew it could n't be the murder weapon , ’ he gravely told Wickham , ‘ because I was using it on Friday evening , hours after MacQuillan was found dead . ’ |
| 13 | Anyway , I was using it behind his back . |
| 14 | In the dream , I was singing it in all me funny voices , from the squeaky one to the gruff one and it was a pile of bollocks . |
| 15 | Fine er what we 're , what we 're saying to you basically is , right , and , and another thing you 're doing is proving that you 're capable of doing it , now if I was training you from cold , right , and you had n't done it |
| 16 | It 's odd because I was watching him on Football Focus yesterday , him and Bob Wilson , and I was trying to stay awake |
| 17 | I like him , I was watching him on the telly the other day , I think he seemed nice . |
| 18 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 19 | PS Stoke just won thier first game under Joe Jordan … so what ? well I was watching it on telly , had to come to work , & had to find something to do ! |
| 20 | Yeah and I was watching it on This Morning and what it is it 's because most things you 've got in your kitchen like myself are all tested on animals and they do n't label it |
| 21 | ‘ I was watching you through the net curtains — how 's that for snooping ? |
| 22 | Well , I was watching you through the window . |
| 23 | ‘ I was watching you with the stopwatch . ’ |
| 24 | I was accompanying him in the show anyway and I think we just had the nerve . ’ |
| 25 | And I remember at the time , I was chasing you over a most ridiculous national press story that Emlyn did n't like the idea of you a pop singer appearing in one of his classics . |
| 26 | Six years later she remembers , vividly , a match against Fiona Anderson in the Scottish Championship at North Berwick which was won by Gillian Stewart : " I had been listening to " The Mikado " before I set out and I was humming it in my head all the way round . |
| 27 | You do n't know how glad I was to see you in that little cottage talking to old Freitas . |
| 28 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 29 | I was weathering the winter and believed that if there was anything in my lung , then at the very worst I was holding it at bay . |
| 30 | I was holding it in such an awkward way that fingers eventually protested . |