Example sentences of "[pron] were [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were just looking at this . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's all right , Dr Markham , ’ she replied , then in a sudden flash of inspiration , and hoping that David would realise what she meant , she said , ‘ Jimmy and I were just discussing visiting Len Seager in hospital . |
| 3 | ‘ My cousin and I were just discussing you , ’ Mandy admitted cheerfully . |
| 4 | I were just pretending to him , because I ai n't really full of beans . |
| 5 | Well no , but and I were just thinking well why ca n't it just be all things together that make us what we are and when you 're trying to find a single thing , the only single thing is the one , which is the unity and then there 's no differentiation but I do n't think that , that we are , we are our body as well and that then can affect the soul you know , if you , if you 've got a big nose and all your life people stare at you you 're gon na , you 're not going to be unaffected by it . |
| 6 | I were just thinking where my sander were . |
| 7 | If I were just starting zandering from the beginning I would not even consider night fishing for them until I had got my act together in the daytime . |
| 8 | ‘ The little lady and I were just talkin' about where to have dinner . ’ |
| 9 | " Harry and I were just wondering how we were going to get her clothes on again . " |
| 10 | Oh yes I appreciate but I were just wondering what branches they were in , you 've explained that , that . |
| 11 | Oh I were just wondering . |
| 12 | And the manager the un the the deputy met me he says , And I were just going down main road at nighttime as me dad were coming up . |
| 13 | I were just talking about you to Maggie then . |
| 14 | ‘ Caroline and I were simply arguing over an appropriate bedtime for you . ’ |
| 15 | As George Dionisovich and I were finally parting , he passed on a suggestion to Dimitri Likhachev and the USSR 's then Minister of Culture , Nikolai Gubenko , about concrete assistance for the establishment of the museum . |
| 16 | Here my brother and I were immediately enrolled in the choir of St Luke 's church . |
| 17 | But some months after when I was er I were badly hurt th that last time . |
| 18 | Both my husband and I were strictly brought up and , if we were naughty , were beaten . |
| 19 | ‘ You and I were both born here , in Cork , but you think of it as Cork , Ireland , while I think of it as just Cork , where I live . ’ |
| 20 | Nobody explained to me what this meant , and because she had a hard and heavy hand , which she used freely on her husband as well as me , I supposed that Joe and I were both brought up by hand . |
| 21 | Mac and I were both entered in the 100 metres . |
| 22 | I know why my experienced colleague and I were both having trouble with the yarn looping at the edges . |
| 23 | It got rather nasty — at one point my sister and I were actually playing tug-of-war with a vase — and ended with us rowing about which of us was his favourite . |
| 24 | Reason and conscience both told me that if I were ever to have any chance of escaping successfully this was that chance . |
| 25 | This was why Louisa Agnew had chosen the title of that text for her epitaph ; and if he and I were ever to unravel that secret , he said , we should get back to work . |
| 26 | Both he and I were greatly diminished by Dr Maté , who now made a proclamation , reading from a box . |
| 27 | With so much happening , and no central authority , Lorne and I were constantly harried by the attempt to film only the crucial events , which appeared to erupt spontaneously at any time of the day or night , while conserving the precious little film stock we had put aside for the intended Bugis film . |
| 28 | I were only saying to a lady this morning about ee aye our Emma used to come to Leyland with a a wad of ten shilling notes new and we 'd go to er Southport would n't we ? |
| 29 | I were only going to have a look . |
| 30 | I was n't I were only bandaged up . |