Example sentences of "me [conj] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DID MY ears deceive me or was yesterday 's BBC TV news saying that even the Queen has ‘ flu ? |
| 2 | Was he a savage creature with evil designs on me or was it his idea of a joke ? |
| 3 | If people told me that was all well and good but if they did n't , but I did hear about this erm er she did the operation on the girl who er who could n't get rid of her baby , and then it , she lo she sent she sent a telegram to her husband or a letter er it took a long while to come from the Far East , he was in the Far East . |
| 4 | I felt that I was using a part of me that was n't used to functioning and I 've just recently started juggling |
| 5 | And if there were h a wagon or a hutch went off the road there you were with not enough height to lift it all back off the rail again and believe me that was experience in itself . |
| 6 | And God and mercy me that was just have mercy on me . |
| 7 | And mine matey and bess be about me that was quite a long exclamation but it was something surprise them terribly , Oh bess be about me , just sort of , Oh God come to me help , sort of thing . |
| 8 | Now it seemed to me that was n't a very erm reasonable balance and er comparing that with the with the Secretary of State 's recent pronouncements where he talks about local planning authorities needing to breathe fresh life into the countryside through their development plans and I want local planning authorities in rural areas to give the need to diversify the rural economy as much priority priority in their thinking as protecting the countryside and the two go hand in hand , and comparing those two er points I I would I would put to North Yorkshire the question , Do they think that the explanatory memorandum is is consistent with that er policy statement from the Secretary of State ? |
| 9 | Was it just me that was excited you said . |
| 10 | And to me that was the wrong way to go . |
| 11 | You told me that was Westgate last time I |
| 12 | Urgh urgh urgh urgh ooh ooh fuck me that was a |
| 13 | And there were two more people in front of me that was waiting to go on the course . |
| 14 | erm well , Li erm she , she goes well Lizzie told us that erm that your taxi was in front of hers , I went oh no no no , that was n't me that was someone else . |
| 15 | yeah it was alright , I think it was me that was being a bit , got a bit het up in case anybody had too much and started you know |
| 16 | and they could n't find anybody living round by me that were employed . |
| 17 | He had taken them away from me and was making them his own . |
| 18 | This she did , however , rather rapidly and the next moment I found she had overtaken me and was standing before me , effectively barring my way . |
| 19 | Mick had arrived before me and was almost at the front . |
| 20 | It meant a lot to me and was a fine and understanding gesture by Lynn . |
| 21 | Moreover , as the joker in the pack , the only person without a partner , I was a subject of general interest , and to make matters still worse , Lynn Carter had conceived a pallid intellectual crush on me and was always hanging around trying to engage me in conversation . |
| 22 | Uncle waited up for me and was so cross that I was really frightened . |
| 23 | She came to meet me and was ecstatic when she saw Zephyr , telling me she was absolutely gorgeous and everybody would love her . |
| 24 | What he did was relatively harmless , yet it damaged me and was the cause of reckless behaviour with consequences as far reaching as now . ’ |
| 25 | The other day I was on a plane , and a man came up to me and was absolutely thrilled to see me . |
| 26 | My sister took a bit of stick at first , too , and although she 's two years younger than me and was in a different class , we stuck together at break times and tried to avoid the sneering eyes . |
| 27 | He was two years older than me and was only eighteen when he had first killed somebody . |
| 28 | She turned quickly away from me and was very still as she fought with her emotions . |
| 29 | Then she stood on tiptoe , kissed me and was gone . |
| 30 | Pointy-Beard was somewhere underneath me and was trying to roll me out from under Armstrong . |