Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My girl-friend and I were just making-up after a quarrel . |
| 2 | She and I were always friends , and David and I remain friends . |
| 3 | Nay , would I were so anger 'd with the same ! |
| 4 | It 's time I was away Fred . |
| 5 | erm I was slowly sort of pulling a few ideas out of thin air . |
| 6 | Then people thought I was completely bonkers . |
| 7 | As one said , what Easton has , unlike many areas , is ‘ ordinary civil policing ’ ( FN 16/11/87 , p. 6 ) , so that there is a continuity with policing in Easton before the current troubles began : ‘ I was in Easton years ago when it was the old station , though basically policing at Easton has n't changed from when I was here years ago . |
| 8 | ‘ Ello young 'un , ’ he grunted , ‘ I was just watchin 'em lave-nettin' on the river there . ’ |
| 9 | It is not really because I was just Noel and I just had a chat this morning . |
| 10 | And I was just squeezin maself into a five and a half when Moira McVitie round the crescent in the cul de sac comes by and shouts out ‘ Hiya there Verena is that you trying on some fuck-me shoes for yer man gettin back . ’ |
| 11 | Oh , Maurice , I was just making-up . ’ |
| 12 | No but I was just sort of testing you out to see , you know , how you reacted . |
| 13 | I was just sort of helping . |
| 14 | Well the grey come through and I was just sort of I thought I ca n't wait all those years with dark hair . |
| 15 | No I , I was just sort of erm A wondering and B wondering whether to go back a different way round and |
| 16 | It was late at night and I decided , I was just sort of talking I 'd say , I ca n't get rid of this headache , and I do n't know what I 'm gon na do , I do n't whether I should just not worry about it cos I 'm not that old , and I was really pouring my heart out to him , and he turns round and he says , yeah , you need a new clutch you really need a new clutch . |
| 17 | I was just goon interesting to ask about was erm well just how how how people pass evenings you know , did they go visiting each other or |
| 18 | I was also coauthor of the Black report on ‘ Inequalities of health ’ and continue to play a part in debates on that subject . |
| 19 | I was also part of a problem ( although it was no problem then ) of falling rolls . |
| 20 | My job essentially was to introduce general management , and therefore I er , I was able to use many of the skills which I had acquired in I B M , but of course , I was also part of the Griffiths debate , here I 'm talking about Griffiths Two , not Griffiths One , I was implementing Griffiths One , which was general management , Griffiths Two was a community , the community debate , so I saw something , which I 'm certainly not allowed to quote , of the great debates that went on over the period of eighteen months before the eventual decision was made about community care . |
| 21 | I 've kept touching you because I still have the greatest difficulty keeping my hands off you , but I was also doing Simon 's trick , attempting to nudge fate along . |
| 22 | I was neither Jew nor English nor white , or even a proper Indian or a proper Pakistani ; but my travels through Europe and stay in the USA and my near acceptance there as a living entity capable of suffering pain and enjoying pleasure had temporarily given me a sort of quasi-human status , further aggravated by those willing to be my sexual partners ; I had become spoilt and pampered . |
| 23 | It is more likely that the elements of secrecy and self-deception involved in my behaviour were already so strong that what I was actually doing could n't be described in words at all , least of all in the incriminating written word . |
| 24 | Yet what I was really doing was hardening myself against disappointment — my mother was going to be abroad when the baby was born . |
| 25 | ‘ I was really spacey , ’ she giggles . |
| 26 | It was funny cos I could hear them talking and I was really sort of like |
| 27 | ‘ Homesickness only strikes occasionally now , but when I first arrived in February and setting up home here seemed so alien I was often mopey . ’ |
| 28 | I was subsequently Chief Constable of the combined Sheffield and Rotherham Police Force which whilst a joint committee , still regarded so very much as serving the two separate authorities and finally I was Chief in a Metropolitan country , with a county council and a police committee and I 'm quite sure that the police were much more sensitive to the needs and the wishes of their local communities when you were sitting at one of those , not necessarily police committee meetings , but the county council meetings , when they discussed the minutes of the police authority . |
| 29 | I was mentally calorie counting every time , it took me ages to get back to a sort of normal life . |
| 30 | I was always Bachelor No.2 and I was never picked for a date . ’ |