Example sentences of "i [was/were] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 2 | Eventually Frankie and I were called in by Mum and told to get a wash and change as it was nearly time to go . |
| 3 | So Derek and I were called in . |
| 4 | The conviction started from my body and the discovery that no one could prevent me — if I were determined enough — from treating it as I wished . |
| 5 | how old he was , Nicodemus was born physically just the same as you and I were born physically . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | My friend and I were made very welcome at the centre — the staff , atmosphere and facilities were excellent , as was the food . |
| 8 | He is teasing me , as the hon. Member for Normanton ( Mr. O'Brien ) and I were teased occasionally in the Standing Committee on the Local Government Finance Bill during the past three weeks . |
| 9 | One day in 1964 , while Richard was playing in Hamlet on Broadway , he and I were interviewed jointly in a private corner of an Eighth Avenue bar and restaurant much frequented by theatre people . |
| 10 | at eight o'clock I were sat outside |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 13 | What , and I were brought up in church ? |
| 14 | Budgie was a great part and I loved playing Frank Carver in Love Hurts erm and I did n't when when I was asked to do i , well w actually i it was n't a series , the writers and I were put together by a man called Alan who 's now my partner in Alfie as well he 's and he asked me why was n't I working and would he would I mind being put together with the two writers . |
| 15 | If I were told to-morrow , ‘ You can have a united Ireland if you give up your idea of restoring the national language to be the spoken language of the majority of the people ’ , I would , for myself , say no . |
| 16 | Once once I opened the door and I were knocked back and all me rent and . |
| 17 | I were knocked back on the bloody floor . |
| 18 | If I were laid low tomorrow you would n't have to worry . |
| 19 | In Tblisi , Stalin 's birthplace , my wife and I were shown around by enthusiastic Georgians from the Technological Institute . |
| 20 | It was the kind of illogical fear of the supernatural that in others made me sneer ; but all along I had felt that I was invited not out of hospitality , but for some other reason . |
| 21 | Because er because I was invited on to speak about current educational issues |
| 22 | Through the communicating voice tube I was invited up to the bridge . |
| 23 | For lunch , I was invited home by , and met a group of teachers from CIEFL . |
| 24 | Three weeks ago I was invited down to a meeting of water workers . |
| 25 | She was hard at work in her jealously private workshop , though she called in briefly at the library from time to time , and I was invited back to the Lodge for meals some evenings . |
| 26 | I was invited back to Clandeboye after the game by some other friendly Bangor folk . |
| 27 | Last weekend I was invited out to Sunday lunch by the young teacher who is involved in organizing this course . |
| 28 | Thursday , 18th : After the day 's programme , I was invited out by , a local participant , to visit another garden of the Moghul era , where we saw a son-et-lumière celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Jaipur by the Maharajah Jai Singh . |
| 29 | I was situated immediately behind the cameraman , being at the organ and playing for the service . |
| 30 | ‘ I was spoiled long ago by that maudlin old wreck you bought for me , what more can happen to me now ? |