Example sentences of "i were [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually Frankie and I were called in by Mum and told to get a wash and change as it was nearly time to go . |
| 2 | So Derek and I were called in . |
| 3 | The roller-coaster cliff-top walk was tiring but both Vanessa and I were spurred on as we approached the final climb up Golden Cap . |
| 4 | It started nineteen seventy one or seventy two , it must have been , when my predecessor and I were sat down , and we said what about a band , they all said , what band , well let's have a band , and and it started just like that , and we , we managed to get the whole of the brigade alerted to it , and we had a meeting at headquarters , to which about forty or fifty people turned up , of which two had probably blown a an instrument in the past , and there was enough enthusiasm to learn and we had a , a chap who was a musical teacher in town who was would happily teach our people you see and so we went out , we had a penny , with no help from the authority or anybody else and we got every type of brass instrument for a band on tick and we said we 'd pay for it , and er |
| 5 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 6 | What , and I were brought up in church ? |
| 7 | Once once I opened the door and I were knocked back and all me rent and . |
| 8 | I were knocked back on the bloody floor . |
| 9 | In Tblisi , Stalin 's birthplace , my wife and I were shown around by enthusiastic Georgians from the Technological Institute . |