Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally Mary Knelle and I were on our way once more , driving past hillsides where neat black cut-away shapes showed that turf had been extracted . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not very proper and if I were on my feet you would n't say things like that . ’ |
| 3 | I had somehow supposed her to sit in that room for ever , real only when Hugo or I were with her . |
| 4 | I were with them blokes Saturday at work and er one of them said to me where are you from and I says why ? |
| 5 | How I wish I were with you . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course , if I were with you , Nancy would have us all over to dinner . ’ |
| 7 | I wish I were with you . ’ |
| 8 | were thirty odd , I think I were with you when |
| 9 | In fact he was a sadist , and after my father 's death both Brian and I were among his victims . |
| 10 | ‘ True ; and I wish I were in them . ’ |
| 11 | A post in Italy , the nature of which I never fully learnt , save that it would be of sufficient importance to take me out of uniform if I were in it , fell through with Italy 's declaration of war . |
| 12 | so he said I said I do n't have to tell you where I were last night David , I were out , so I said even if I were in it 's none of your concern I said what I do in my private time is up to me , he said well why was n't you there ? |
| 13 | I would , if I were in your shoes . |
| 14 | If I were in your place , I 'd be careful whom I picked to talk to . " |
| 15 | But if I were in your shoes I 'd be worried silly with a debt of three and a half thousand hanging over me . ’ |
| 16 | I wish I were in my bed at Wuthering Heights , with the wind howling through the trees . |
| 17 | When you and I were in our slit trenches sheltering from the shit that 's flying about , these two here were running around the orchard picking up the dead and wounded . ’ |
| 18 | Four hours later , three miles on , the lads and I were in our tents . |
| 19 | She were alright when she were with me today . |
| 20 | And she were on her about and sailors and what have you and I thought , aye , I 'll know where you 'll end up lady and she has . |
| 21 | Claudia also watched him go ; then she walked into the flat , wishing she were on her own . |
| 22 | If he came back he would see her walking away from the house , walking down the track as if she were on her way back to Paris . |
| 23 | It would be difficult for 'er to get back'ards and for'ards , and she were on her own all the time . |
| 24 | I fought for them two , to get that home for her , so I said no , the only way you 'll do it , and I , when she were on her own , I said , not that I do n't trust Nigel , I do , but you do n't know what 's gon na happen in ten , in ten years time , I said I fought for that house for you , if you exchange it , you exchange it in your name |
| 25 | A degree of light emanated from the silently hurtling water , which she felt as a force urging her forward , as though she were in its grip and swept along with it . |
| 26 | And then he went and sat on the blue dralon chair in the immaculate drawing-room , the bottle of scotch at his side , Rose 's dress draped carefully along the sofa as if she were in it and alive . |
| 27 | Irene she were after it today |
| 28 | Mother always emphasizes what a special friend you were to her too . |
| 29 | He 's told me what a deadweight you were to him . |
| 30 | Added to this was the fact that the clocks themselves were so erratic ; every so often they slowed down , so that time went more slowly the closer you were to them . |