Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They keep questioning me , always asking where I was what I did why I did it , did all of them where I was who I was with who am I trying to kid why do n't I just admit I did it well if I did n't do all these things , who did ? |
| 2 | All I could see was the posts and the exact spot centrally between them where I was going to touch down . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've had a little help from Barry Humphries in this , and I hope I 've paid him due credit , thought he did start that nasty rumour that he was me or I was him . |
| 4 | The mentality that got me where I was , then held me back . ’ |
| 5 | Yet he , the archer , might have gone back there to check again after all and if he had he would know I was alive , but he would never find me where I was now , deep in impenetrable shadow along a path he could n't follow in the dark . |
| 6 | With a sigh of relief I dropped my hands , because instead of Dad lying there there was the attic door which had fallen in such a way that it was wedging the door back , trapping me where I was . |
| 7 | I 'm so self reliant that I if I was going o do anything it 'd have to be me that would do it , for the simple reason I could n't trust anybody else , not in that particular thing anyway . |
| 8 | Erm I if I was talking to an audience in the United States , you 'd probably have a somewhat different approach cos over there they seem to throw their desktop devices away every two or three years and replace them with brand new technology . |
| 9 | I if I was a building the last thing I would want would be people gawping at me . |
| 10 | I if I were you I 'd probably be er you know looking around a bit . |
| 11 | Yes , yes yeah , I mean , I think if I if I were to say to you , shall we sing the National Anthem , we 'd say , oh no , no , no . |
| 12 | but you 're on about something else , you said the first thing I 'd do , that 's got nothing to do with Harold Wilson the first thing I if I were in power |
| 13 | He said , I if I were you ! |
| 14 | So I 'd stay away from 'er if I was you an' come an' play marbles with me like you used to do . ’ |
| 15 | And I was good Oh and I and I was a good player as well . |
| 16 | And I was in the depot and I and I was er trying to er get some money for , for this thing or , or doing something for it anyway , and this bloke said , said John , he said , what the bloody hell are you got interested in the people of Spain for ? |
| 17 | So do I and I was just talking to her downstairs and I was asking her like the differences between here and the States , you know the boar cos she was in a boarding school before , and she was saying erm how you know just generally the people are nicer and the blokes talk to you not just because you 're cos they |
| 18 | And I cos I was amazed they told me about this salt rubbish ! |
| 19 | and I bought this I mean I cos I was n't paying cash wanted . |
| 20 | I had killed someone and I was afraid . ’ |
| 21 | Er I I could n't tell you off the top of me head I because I was working on it till half past midnight . |
| 22 | ‘ I looked for a single builder , because I wanted to work closely with someone while I was doing the ‘ unpicking ’ myself , ’ Timothy says . |
| 23 | Oh well it must be my before I was a teenager . |
| 24 | Er cos I I would n't have in I When I was making the the analysis I w was n't including Hereford and Worcester and I was n't |
| 25 | No , no I did n't tell anybody when I you know I when I was doing me upmost , of course they knew afterwards that er because of me going in the hospital you see . |
| 26 | We 've got three sets , we 've got four now there was another put in wh that one when I when I was I . |
| 27 | Yes cos I when I was with B P for six years , a non-contributory pension scheme , I lost every you know |
| 28 | When I when I was learning to drive it was oh , right at the August , September time |
| 29 | As I as I was talking about for a new pattern |
| 30 | I had a fling with someone when I was at college , but that was the only occasion . |