Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It happened in a flash , although in retrospect everything seemed to occur in slow motion , as though I were watching from another planet . |
| 2 | I were thinking about that bungalow , and , well actually it 's as far from our road , nearly as far from our road to there , as what is it from bungalow window to road . |
| 3 | Phil and I were getting in two stories a week . |
| 4 | Five minutes later Tony and I were trudging through deep snow , wishing we had spared the time to search out the snow shoes and wondering whether there had ever been a previous occasion in Iceland when the approach of a car had been heralded by walkers . |
| 5 | John was careful , but as a singer I felt with him as I were standing on one leg after my time with Walter . |
| 6 | Anyway I were , I were talking to that lady and er she were on about you , and she says about putting your name |
| 7 | Suppose you and I were playing against each other , and suppose we both knew that the number of rounds in the game was to be exactly 100 . |
| 8 | Holmes and I were sitting on either side of a bright fire in our sitting room in Baker Street . |
| 9 | My feet almost disappeared in it ; it looked as if I were paddling in muddy water . |
| 10 | Do you know what she said last night , after I 'd told her what Dieter and I were planning for next week ? |
| 11 | She felt as though she were treading on thin ice and any false move might plunge her once more into the dark depths of despair . |
| 12 | Her tiredness seemed to soak away from her , as though she were lying in warm water ; she felt not only welcome , but positively needed . |
| 13 | She were knocking for this thing you know . |
| 14 | You know , for one pound she were paying like three quid a week or whatever . |
| 15 | Too often , friends and colleagues react to the information that someone is suffering from depression either by agreeing that they often feel a bit down themselves but manage to cope , or else by treating the person as if he or she were suffering from mental disease . |
| 16 | she were going with this lad through and it 's the easiest three pound , three pound ten I 've ever earned Good though that int it ? |
| 17 | ‘ I thought you were referring to that episode at Rocamar . |
| 18 | You were referring to tw sorry you were referring to twelve hour flows which |
| 19 | So some were staring down at you and others were well below your eye level , which meant that you were scanning for each piece rather than reading them as a series . |
| 20 | You were telling about that witch story afore , is that something that your father told you ? |
| 21 | His eyes did not leave the view as he said , ‘ Did you ever think when you were living in that flat in Manchester that you would one day own all this ? ’ |
| 22 | Everything was family-centred , see , so you were living in little towns , little plantation villages , just like the black folks in the South . |
| 23 | With slides at £5 each it would seem to be hard to justify buying one 's own film recorder unless you were dealing with confidential material . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not sure I approve of the way you were looking at that visitor , ’ he went on , bending towards her and speaking quietly . |
| 25 | Now in this particular period if you were looking at these figures just like this , what would be your automatic reaction in terms of the type of holidays we ought to be providing ? |
| 26 | Tha that Scottish card that you were looking for that painting ? |
| 27 | Is this what you found when you were looking for that card ? |
| 28 | If you were thinking of herbaceous plants , good ones to try are Iris unguicularis and Helleborus niger , if you were looking for a shrub , I would suggest Chimonanthus praecox , or winter sweet ; Lonicera fragrantissima , one of the hammelis , perhaps H. mollis , H. intermedia or H. japonica , or Viburnum x bodnantense . |
| 29 | May I ask who it was you were addressing by that name ? ’ |
| 30 | " The man , " Katherine snapped , " what was the man doing while you were chatting to this woman ? " |