Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a voice full of virginal astonishment he said , ‘ 'E were touchin' me fookin' cock . ’ |
| 2 | Halfway up the aisle the Ted turned his head again to the packed house and in the same pained voice of injured innocence repeated , ‘ 'E were touchin' me fookin' cock . ’ |
| 3 | He was matter-of-fact about it , as if he were telling me what time it was . |
| 4 | Your Bill nearly hit it other week he were telling me . |
| 5 | He was shaking me calling me a slut and a whore and saying they were n't his kids everything , I do n't know , I could n't breathe — he were choking me — ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He were choking me . |
| 7 | That same day he told me , as if he were giving me a magnificent present , that he thought he could pull strings and have me posted with him . |
| 8 | Well I did n't actually but he was arsed I just said oh thanks very much ! |
| 9 | You can tell how close I was and he was facing me . ’ |
| 10 | I thought he was conning me when he told me his plan . |
| 11 | I asked , surprised that he was leaving me . |
| 12 | He was watching me . |
| 13 | The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're sure he was watching me ? ’ |
| 15 | He was watching me . |
| 16 | He was calling me all the time-awful things . |
| 17 | He was going to tell his mother and sister on the Friday and , to break the ice , we decided to go to the Fire Festival on Saturday ; he was to pick me up here at eight and we were going together . ’ |
| 18 | He still listened , but now I do n't think he was hearing me , not believing that I meant what I said . |
| 19 | Then he was crushing me and I understood . |
| 20 | When he was conducting I would often sit in the orchestra in the middle of the woodwinds . |
| 21 | Now even Kalim Siddiqui is saying let's forgive and forget , when just a short time ago he was wanting me murdered , deported to Tehran , whatever would spill my blood . |
| 22 | ‘ Your pardon , Aunt Lavvy , but he was stopping me getting to my favourite lady . |
| 23 | As I left my GP — he was passing me over to a surgeon — and he shook my hand and wished me luck — that in itself was a bad sign — neither the truth nor the meaning had really sunk in . |
| 24 | Everything was happening so fast — he could n't be aware of the crisis he was dragging me towards . |
| 25 | He was singing I do n't know why I love you , but I do , and a holiday couple in shades of beige were making it a waltz of dance-class precision . |
| 26 | ( When alone in Tom 's attic recently , found his passport and discovered that when he was born I was already at Grammar School , doing Domestic Science — in vain , as it turned out ) . |
| 27 | When he was born I felt detached . |
| 28 | So fifty five years before Jesus was born the Romans were already he was born I think but they had not come as far as Britain . |
| 29 | ‘ And so do I. Before he was born I decided he would come first and that , if it was at all possible , I 'd be at home with him throughout his early years . ’ |
| 30 | One time I did and he was tapping me on the shoulder saying , ‘ I 've broken a string ’ . |