Example sentences of "[noun sg] and i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I certainly wanted it to be true because I was the only boy ( well , nearly the only boy ) in our class never to have had a girlfriend and I was beginning to feel a bit left out . |
| 2 | My girlfriend and I were a conventional hand-holding couple and David and Angela were going to gay clubs at midnight and bringing home people at four in the morning which made things very tense , I would say . ’ |
| 3 | They said my girlfriend and I were being unrealistic . |
| 4 | The Fellowship had George Bell as president and I was its chairman , but the work was done by Hartwell as honorary secretary and joint editor for the movement 's journal , The Bridge . |
| 5 | It was my first American-backed movie and I was the lead . |
| 6 | I had n't seen her since that night at the Club and I was beginning to despair of ever seeing her again . |
| 7 | But Manchester United are a world-famous club and I was ready for a new challenge . ’ |
| 8 | My father was a professional soldier and I was conscious of his excellence and knew I would never achieve that excellence . |
| 9 | I was posted to the er ack-ack brigade and I was posted to Norwich , just at Norwich , Coldershaw really . |
| 10 | Michael is a man who knows his own mind and I was relying on him for some controversial quotes , but he surprised me by agreeing on the whole with Mr Isherwood 's choices . |
| 11 | Erm when I came on to the flats I came with an open mind and I was gon na you know take things as I as I met them . |
| 12 | So I reached Lochinver in style , had time to look around , and mounted the bus outside the post office : the morning 's collection of mail and I were the only passengers . |
| 13 | And this morning she jumped on my neck and I was sleeping and I woke up , you know what she does while she 's doing it ? |
| 14 | and erm , we both decided we 'd take this diploma and er Mr erm in his kindness let us erm erm go off to the workshops and do some practical work and erm my wife lived at Stow Upland and I was lodging in Ipswich and er he even allowed us to study in the , in the erm Enquiry Office in the evenings . |
| 15 | Next morning I cleaned up the vomit and got myself ready for school but I still had a nasty taste in my mouth and I was hot and achey . |
| 16 | Now I would not want to live in a country where my ex-wife and I were denied the right to another chance . ’ |
| 17 | I wish to notify other divers that while diving in Cornwall earlier this year , my buddy and I were charged £2 each for just walking down the slip for a shore dive . |
| 18 | Then we were staggering into a hospital casualty department and I was grateful Bunny was there — they can be dangerous places on a Friday night . |
| 19 | And just I went and got cup of tea and I were a lot better . |
| 20 | My charge was supplying cocaine and I was given two years for that and one year each concurrent for possession of small amounts of cannabis , cannabis resin , amphetamines and LSD . |
| 21 | One day my son Krono and I were there , too busy eating to watch for trouble , and a big bird came down and took him away . ’ |
| 22 | They were arguing about who had the softest fabric and I was called in as arbitrator . |
| 23 | I did n't have a sweater and I was cold . |
| 24 | He reminded me of a barrister I had once watched interrogating a hostile witness and I was sure his switch to English was not for my benefit , it was done to put Rodriguez at a disadvantage . |
| 25 | When the hon. Member for Newham , North-East and I were buying one or two shirts in Sri Lanka , we must have been conscious that we were supporting the industry of the developing world , and rightly so . |
| 26 | Music was a sideline and I was sort of the loner of the family , sitting for hours in my brother 's room listening to records . |
| 27 | The three of us cleaned our plates pretty thoroughly , because morning is the busiest working time in practice and I was always famished by midday . |
| 28 | There was so little space in the car and I was so cramped that one of the policemen lifted me bodily out on to the road . |
| 29 | I can remember being in the back of a car and I was screaming . |
| 30 | I got into the car and I was still erm thinking all about this |