Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] i [was/were] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a warm , sunny june day in Fontanellato and I was riding out into the country on my bicycle when another cyclist gave me the news . |
| 2 | I got out of Bullwood Hall on a Tuesday and I was picked up on the Thursday , two days later , for robbery . |
| 3 | The Clown was racing alongside and Lollo and I were showing off to him whooing and waving . |
| 4 | One evening in mid-April , Dr Jaffery and I were walking down the Chandni Chowk heading towards the doctor 's rooms in the Ghazi-ud-Din Medresse . |
| 5 | Eventually Frankie and I were called in by Mum and told to get a wash and change as it was nearly time to go . |
| 6 | Ken Pitt : ‘ It was 1968 and David and I were going across to Germany quite often to do television shows and on one occasion , the producer whose name was Gunther Schneider , asked us if David would be interested in doing a half-hour programme with him . |
| 7 | After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one . |
| 8 | I tell it just as it happened , from where we ran up the hill almost straight into the man ; I leave out what Andy and I were doing just before , and the man 's line about dirty , perverted things . |
| 9 | Karen and I were waiting here nobody invi we sat in all night and watched T V actually . |
| 10 | The result was that on the Saturday morning , I told my mother there was nothing for me in England and I was going back to Germany to try and get my old job back . |
| 11 | ‘ When my father died my mother took me on a trip to Spain and I was bowled over by the El Grecos . |
| 12 | The men followed them and within a few moments lord Hulton and I were standing there just as before watching the tiny figures on the skyline , listening to the distant " Haow , haow ! " |
| 13 | J. Chapman , Sledmere Drive , Acklam , Middlesbrough : I was a final year pharmacy student in Sunderland and I was setting up apparatus for a chemistry experiment , when another student came in with the sad news that the King had died . |
| 14 | It was a hurried occasion , as we were all going to catch a train : the same train , as it turned out , for Donald and I were going home to Oxford , and Ivy and Margaret were going with Herman Schrijver — the Dutch interior decorator who became the closest of her men friends — to spend a week at Woodstock , and walk in the park at Blenheim . |
| 15 | Jenny had digs on the Iffley Road and I was going there to see her , to tell her , to break it to her , to break her fragile , trusting heart . |
| 16 | What if Mercia and I were to take over Northumbria ? ’ |
| 17 | Actually , Cole was n't proposing donations to aid agencies as the ‘ solution ’ to mass starvation any more than Stuart Weir and I were doing so a few years ago . |
| 18 | So Derek and I were called in . |
| 19 | We 'd had a huge rally of 10,000 people for Ronald Reagan at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas and I was flying on to Los Angeles with one of the co-ordinators the next morning . |
| 20 | My start was beginning to let me down around this time — Ron and I were concentrating more on my pick-up — but I had the satisfaction of beating Calvin Smith quite comfortably . |
| 21 | Early in the summer of 1946 Hellen had been transferred to Toronto and I was becoming more and more disenchanted with the CBC . |
| 22 | One November afternoon Leithen and I were coming home from a ride . |
| 23 | Just because Hawks were going to go to Iran and I was wondering how many planes it was going to be this time . |
| 24 | I was partnering Sandy Lyle against Lee Trevino and Sean Connery and I was shaking so much with nerves , I could n't even balance my ball on a little wooden tee at the first . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I gave the old man a tip , and soon Mrs M. and I were speeding back to Ballina . |
| 27 | There was a hush-hush meeting with Eliot and I was to keep out of the way . |