Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [noun] and i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were driving north and I saw it at once . |
| 2 | Well , I , I 'd say one thing by illustration from our own situation er we were transferring bulk and I felt that was singularly unfair because the members were given a choice . |
| 3 | Shelley , Shelley come round to me right , and she was , she was , she was stroking Dempsey and I walked in the room , this is Dempsey and he walked past me wagging his , you know when they put the tail down and |
| 4 | I just got me coal and I was looking solvent and I 've only got so many weeks and I 've got to empty the stupid thing again . |
| 5 | ‘ When Terry was coaching Barcelona and I went over to visit him , he asked me to bring a few pounds of good old English pork sausages because he was missing his bangers and mash for tea , ’ he explained . |
| 6 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 7 | I got a cat trapped up here , right , it was chasing Jones and I goes I got you now , and he jumped over the wall . |
| 8 | When I was playing rugby and I hurt my thumb she actually lent me a very expensive Jaeger coat to keep me warm . |
| 9 | You know , she came home and she was watching television and I bought some Bourbon biscuits round and then I thought I 'll have one with my cup of tea and now there 's three left ! |