Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , yes yeah , I mean , I think if I if I were to say to you , shall we sing the National Anthem , we 'd say , oh no , no , no . |
| 2 | What kind of a reception would I get if I were to go to your mother now ? |
| 3 | I were looking at your feet but |
| 4 | there 's something on the radio and I were commenting on it and then he all of a sudden he played it back , oh , er , it was about then probably |
| 5 | ‘ You let him believe Oliver and I were moving into his territory ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ — if I were affianced to him , ’ continued Anne without batting an eyelid , ‘ instead of — ’ |
| 7 | Both Benjamin and I were lost in our own thoughts and I was mystified by Agrippa 's revelations . |
| 8 | Floy said , slowly , ‘ If Snodgrass and I were to agree to it — ’ He stopped and Caspar said , ‘ Yes ? ’ |
| 9 | in village , not far up us and er I were getting round me mum and pulling on her skirts and and this old woman says , get him fed Frances , he wants a bit of pap , get him , get him picked up and give him a bit of pap and that 'll shut him up |
| 10 | So I were working for nothing really . |
| 11 | Yes , yes , it does n't compete with the fireplace , we have a , a , er mock fire in there you know , normally in the winter that , that 's on and it looks , it 's very realistic , it almost looks as if it is a fire glowing all the time cos there 's a rotary spinner in it and it flickers , er , and er the room is very warm because it 's central heated anyway and , no I would n't say , it never bothers me the television , I do n't suppose that er , if I were left on my own I 'd hardly have it left on you know I think men watch television more than women . |
| 12 | AR : After Inday and I were forced from our land by the Del Monte Corporation , it became impossible for us to make ends meet . |
| 13 | You imagine that if I were to catalogue for you the incidents of my life , and tell you all my memories , you would come to know me better . |
| 14 | Yeah she told Christie that I were going with her . |
| 15 | But , in meantime while I were waiting for them to ring me I were that mad ! |
| 16 | you tell mother when I were fighting for me country , he ai n't got a bloody scratch on him now |
| 17 | By then Mala and I were sunk into our pouch-seats , awash with laughter . |
| 18 | I were talking to him on Friday , and er , I mean , they 've not been down there five minutes . |
| 19 | I were talking to her for about half an hour . |
| 20 | Well if I know who they are and I do n't know where they come from I 'll just put who they are day I were talking to them and dash it . |
| 21 | Then I were talking to our Karen to about quarter to three |
| 22 | Like a , thousands more , and another thing we knew we we very often , my wife and I were talking about it only the other day , there was an old saying that er er Percy White 's out of prison . |
| 23 | What I was on about me ringing is , she were talking in town , I says , oh , you know we 're Bi I says if ever , I were talking about you first off |
| 24 | When Howard and I were attacked on our way back from the hills , two of the men were carrying Lugers — they 're unmistakable . ’ |
| 25 | Now if I were to suggest to you that in some gay bars the ‘ lads ’ pop off to the toilets that number of times to indulge themselves , then you might think I was repeating lurid propaganda put about by the puritan league . |
| 26 | If , in addition , I were accompanied by his fifteen soldiers I believed we should be too strong a party to invite attack , while not so strong as to alarm and provoke the tribes . |
| 27 | I was going mad : my mum was swearing at me , I was swearing at her ; finally I just lost my temper and said . |
| 28 | That was totally unplanned. erm I was told by a friend that there was erm Pebble Mill were going to organise an Environment Project Competition for Great Britain , and they suggested I sent for a form , which I did , and filled it in , and erm to my astonishment a film crew came down and filmed the pond , and later on I was invited with my husband to Pebble Mill to get this award and it was given me by Virginia Mackenna and Bill Waters , and David Bellamy was there , and erm we had a wonderful time . |
| 29 | We would meet secretly and , when she knew her father was away , I was invited to her home . |
| 30 | I went to erm the guy I work with is a Belgian and I was invited to his birthday party . |