Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] i [was/were] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duncan , Bert and I were to secrete ourselves behind the curtains along with Aspel , who was to demonstrate the trick with the help of his three ‘ assistants ’ . |
| 2 | I told Big Ben all about the hijackers , Danny being in the refrigeration unit and how Jean and I were following them . |
| 3 | It 's bad enough at first but then it gets worse even as they keep me because they found more , they found two more and that was while I was here for Christ 's sake while they held me while things were still happening more stuff came in while they were questioning me and they looked at me with disbelief horror disgust and I was going What ? |
| 4 | I remember as clear as day , standing talking to Penny and I was calling their plumber , I 'll always remember that and er I was quite took back and Penny said ooh she 's been very good to me |
| 5 | MINTO : Paxford and I were saying it was so clear . |
| 6 | It was winter and I was changing her clothes three times a day and my self-control snapped and I shook her very hard to stop her sitting down without her pants and was so upset by my behaviour and frightened by what I had done that they agreed to put her in a home . |
| 7 | At the end of the day Child and I were cursing our luck and Douglas Hamilton was waxing lyrical about the placidity of the beasts , who had allowed him to come within six yards of them . |
| 8 | And he and I had oops er had earlier talked about people , no that 's fine , that 's fine I like the crust , erm parking on verges and I was decrying it . |
| 9 | Which , you know , Alan and I were saying we were a bit concerned about because he 's doing i such a good job I think on the lobbying , that North Yorkshire are not going to be flavour of the month in terms of ministers or senior civil servants |
| 10 | A few minutes and I was shaking his hand , completely dumbfounded by the physical perfection of the man , his elegance , his charm . |
| 11 | Housing official signed transfer forms and I was told I would receive notification of anew house within a week . |
| 12 | And I thought , well I 'll just pop in chemist and I was hoping it would clear it up , so I would n't |
| 13 | ‘ I was out with Annsley one evening and I was giving him some stick about not putting something back into the game , ’ said Armstrong . |
| 14 | Although I left the car park wearing a long-sleeved T-shirt with my warmer clothes packed away in the rucksack , the walk was now a serious business and I was wearing everything I had with me . |
| 15 | She was packing his stuff and I was bringing him upstairs to his room like away from her like . |
| 16 | I did n't want to wear glasses , and I was thinking how I could get out of it but finally they brought in a bunch of pairs of glasses and I was trying them on in the mirror , and I tried on a pair and I thought , ‘ Gee , these do n't look too bad ’ . |
| 17 | Just to be on the safe side I also set up a stick float and a bleak whip but I was hoping I would n't need them — so much for being positive . |
| 18 | ‘ They became the rage and I was delivering them all day in the Rolls , ’ said Crawford . |
| 19 | But I 'd had no sleep and I was feeling it got worse . |
| 20 | After three such days the night nurse told us she thought that Caroline and I were exciting him and that it would be better if we went home and merely visited during the day . |
| 21 | said God I hope I do n't look like big Kath and I was saying I think my dear it 'd be a blessing if you did you look like big Kath . |
| 22 | ‘ Talking of freedom , ’ James said , ‘ Kate and I were wondering what you were doing for Christmas . ’ |
| 23 | It began one morning at breakfast in the days when I was still a bachelor and Tristan and I were taking our places at the mahogany dining table . |
| 24 | ‘ When I got home I called the NRA freephone pollution number and I was told it was too dark and cold for anyone to go down and somebody would be there first thing in the morning . |
| 25 | ‘ Lonely This Christmas ’ by Mud was playing of the radio and I was swinging my body from side to side in time to the music in order to pass the time . |
| 26 | Anyway our Darren came in , and I 'm gon na forget Darren came to the caravan and I was telling him about these wet sheets and beds and the mirrors done and what I was doing there and Oh he said and about the mattress he said and I said to him mattress , it 's still the same mattress . |
| 27 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 28 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 29 | One day when we were at the hospital , Michael was undressing behind screens preparing for his treatment and I was helping him ; and we heard the radiographer say , ‘ If you hear a lot of laughter coming from behind those screens , Doctor , it 's only the Homes . |
| 30 | KENNETH Branagh brings a lot of folk out in hives and I was scratching myself furiously at the thought of Ken , Em , Stephen , Tony , Hugh and Imelda — plus Em 's distinguished mum Phyllida Law as the faithful retainer — all holed up , chummy as you please , in a country house over the Yuletide hols , quaffing bubbly and beating their breasts . |