Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I certainly do not charge the Minister with dishonesty ; if I were to do so I should be reprimanded . |
| 2 | Moreover if I were to fly there what should I do but renew sorrows and incur perhaps insupportable difficulties in attempting to record them . |
| 3 | Karen and I were waiting here nobody invi we sat in all night and watched T V actually . |
| 4 | I kept the key safe , Father Herluin , but never had time to toss the coffer into the bushes , before I was flung there myself , winded among the brambles , and scratches enough to show for it . |
| 5 | I was thinking today you and Jennifer got honours Emma got highly commended and Lisa got commended . |
| 6 | If I was thinking straight she 'd be simply walking round the block . |
| 7 | He got up out of bed and then I was thinking then he had a sneaky feeling that he tried to get out the door . |
| 8 | ‘ I was thinking maybe we could sort of … get in this bag , sort of thing , ’ said Masklin . |
| 9 | Well I was thinking maybe we could bring it to Beeston with the other one . |
| 10 | ‘ I was thinking maybe she had a husband or a brother or somebody who did n't think much of the set-up . ’ |
| 11 | I was thinking perhaps they 'd bring them back . |
| 12 | I was hoping maybe we could discuss it . ’ |
| 13 | On my way back to the surgery I brooded on the fact that I was achieving absolutely nothing with my treatment . |
| 14 | I was really annoyed last night , I was getting really There was all this like down tuning and up tuning like all over the place That looks like Bart Simpson 's dad |
| 15 | When I was running away they put me in an approved school for girls run by nuns . |
| 16 | Even if I was paid twice what I get at the cafe , I still would n't bloody stick at home all day . |
| 17 | Now I was voicing both mine and Gill 's view at that point . |
| 18 | I was told later it was ozone . |
| 19 | I treated her rotten whilst I was studying like I would n't take time off studying to go and see her or phone her when I saw her as often as I could , every weekend |
| 20 | Yeah erm oh well looks like we 're nearly drifting towards the end , again as I , as I say I 'm , I 'm , I 'm fairly , pretty happy with the questions erm you know er going back to what I was saying earlier I was just thinking that some of them might be more f easily phrased as non directional statements and you have the , you know , kind of have the words in the scales yeah right , good , so yeah |
| 21 | In fact if I 'd known I was coming here I could have brought you some in , let you seen what we used to do . |
| 22 | Whilst I was wondering just what I might buy with it , the problem was solved when Mum bought me a grey shirt . |
| 23 | I was wondering actually I think I might wait until that dress comes through , I 'll try |
| 24 | Bill : I was wondering recently what effect the AIDS hysteria has had outside the gay movement and I was talking about it a bit in a pub I use down in Sussex . |
| 25 | I used to think going out was like a balance to work , so if I was working hard I would go out to balance that |
| 26 | John — fit and well — said : ‘ The clinic 's doctors just tried to fool me I was dying so they could make money . ’ |
| 27 | I was doing exactly what we were told to do . |
| 28 | ‘ When they came home I took time off a typing course I was doing so we could be together . |
| 29 | I became conscious of where I was and what I was doing so I quickly stood up and dried my eyes . |
| 30 | Is , it was my sweep that I was doing so I 'm keeping the money , nobody else can have it . |