Example sentences of "i [was/were] get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first started I were getting fourteen shilling a day . |
| 2 | Every time I took a big breath I were getting short pains all down this side ? |
| 3 | Late last year I was getting terrible stomach pains . |
| 4 | The first time I ever got it I what do you want me to do and he said right run across there and I 'd run now punch it , and I 'd be punching the you 'd be jumping and turning round , I could n't get the right one , and finally punch it and the would be coming , said quick hit that and I was getting all sort of |
| 5 | Well in the war five pounds a week was extraordinary money , cos they used to say a fella had got a good job if he was getting five pounds a week in those days , so that when I started work first I , I was getting fifteen shillings a week , so you can understand that seventy five pence today , at fourteen . |
| 6 | Frankly , dear readers , I was getting bored waiting for the graphs to get to the point of maximum excitement . |
| 7 | in the morning , half one to four o'clock , I was getting three pound an hour |
| 8 | Well now , although it was not much more of a job really than an errand boy 's , but as I did that for five and a half years I got to know the people at the pawnbrokers , the cycle agents I got to know them so well , I knew the staff , I got to know the people who were pawning clues and that regularly , I was getting more information every year . |
| 9 | I was getting more fish than him but could n't get the quality despite trying every bait in the book . |
| 10 | Erm I thought that erm I , I mean I was getting some things that John has n't , has n't mentioned , erm when you mentioned the wife being there erm when you , when you were introducing the C C Q you then assumed that you would be coming back with recommendations |
| 11 | I was getting some drawing prep once and what I was actually told to draw was a towel hanging over a chair . |
| 12 | I was getting some strength back in my voice . |
| 13 | cos I mean , that 's what prompted all this cos I was getting some information from my |
| 14 | ‘ I was getting wet chatting on the pavement , anyway . ’ |
| 15 | I was getting sick taste |