Example sentences of "i [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago . |
| 2 | I were real rubbish at school . |
| 3 | Slater glanced at Graham , " Sara and I were next-door neighbours for a while , I do believe our parents may even have intended us for each other at one time , without actually saying anything about it , of course . " |
| 4 | D' ya know , I got weighed on my scales other day , and I thought , I were eleven stone again . |
| 5 | Malc and I were all part of the same gang when we were 14 , sort of ‘ paired off ’ when we were 15 , and started putting our biology theory into practice at 16 . |
| 6 | He came to me He had a problem , he and I were good friends and he said that erm that this one girl s erm Michelle , was his favourite wife and that he had been with her since erm she was twelve . |
| 7 | As neither he nor I were long-term government servants , we were rather more critical of policies and decisions , and did our best to see that reasonable criticism was reasonably answered . |
| 8 | If a human observer sets out to interpret the " emotions " of a rat what else can he do except say of himself : " Now if I were that rat , how should I feel ? " |
| 9 | ‘ How I wish that I were that dog ! ’ |
| 10 | Szell and I were great friends . |
| 11 | Cos I were twenty minutes over the |
| 12 | If I were growing potatoes , like most sensible gardeners I 'd let them grow . |
| 13 | Terry and I were worst hit and for a couple of days I was left off the chain so that I could use the toilet whenever I needed . |
| 14 | People milled past , skirting me as though I were bad luck . |
| 15 | so he said I said I do n't have to tell you where I were last night David , I were out , so I said even if I were in it 's none of your concern I said what I do in my private time is up to me , he said well why was n't you there ? |
| 16 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
| 17 | as if I were some Arab with five gold watches up his arm . ’ |
| 18 | You are treating me as if I were another Rosette Fournier . ’ |
| 19 | So I were ten stone three . |
| 20 | If I were ten years younger , my girl , I should come and carry you away myself . ’ |
| 21 | The flight engineer and I were one-time apprentices at Trenchard 's , Halton , and he had left the Service at the end of his 12 years and returned when the war started . |
| 22 | I was twenty-two years old , and had never had any industrial experience of any sort . |
| 23 | I was twenty-two years old . |
| 24 | As I said , I was sure Elsie would have started at the top . |
| 25 | For my part , I told her that I was sure Aisha had a lover and we began searching for proof . |
| 26 | I burst into tears because I was sure Mum had pawned it or sold it . |
| 27 | The tone of the letter , the way it spoke of Lori ; I was sure Luke had written it . ’ |
| 28 | Changez 's brother sent him money , too , which was unusual , because it should have been the other way round as Changez made his way in the affluent West , but I was sure celebrations in India at Changez 's departure were still taking place . |
| 29 | I was sure Otto had put them there for me . |
| 30 | I whispered to Catherine that I was sure Heathcliff had heard some of what she said . |