Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but when they were ringing I were on phone to John 's mum because there were someone hanging about house , so I talked to John 's mum for ages on phone and then Debbie rang , did n't she ? |
| 2 | I were on phone to her and Michael took the phone off and he went Shelley , she said what ? |
| 3 | And I were on fire from head to foot ! |
| 4 | I were just like that when I were at home on me own at night , John used to play dominoes on a Friday night , the kids were in bed I 'd be in and out of kitchen |
| 5 | ‘ Rory 's a chap Bootsy and I were at school with , ’ she said . |
| 6 | Ladies and gentlemen , chairman er at eighteen minutes to two er my colleagues and I were in interview with the Liberal Democrat er Group er for this so called discussion . |
| 7 | I ca n't rem I were reading about when I were in hospital on er Tuesday while waiting |
| 8 | ‘ Once , a long time ago , I was of Wrath in the far northwest . |
| 9 | In that case of Appleford ( Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 ) there was a mandamus brought , to restore him to his fellowship : it was returned , that by the statutes of the college , for misdemeanour they had a power to turn him out ; and that the Bishop of Winchester was visitor , and that he was turned out pro crimine enormi , and had appealed to the bishop , who confirmed the expulsion ; and the particular cause was not returned : I was of counsel for the college , and we omitted the cause in the return for that reason , because indeed it was not so true as it should have been . |
| 10 | Up to a certain point I was succeeding in both roles , driven as I was towards success by anxiety and the fear of failure . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought I was under contract to Paul Lexington Productions . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I was under pressure from my grandfather to become a teacher and that 's the last thing I wanted to be . |
| 13 | Like every other Secretary of State who has ever been in charge of social security , I was under pressure from the Treasury . |
| 14 | I was past caring about feeling guilt and shame and everything was collapsing anyway , so I just looked straight back at her , resigned , and after a while I shook my head . |
| 15 | Er , no I was on holiday for a week |
| 16 | ‘ After all , I was on holiday at the time . ’ |
| 17 | Well , now , I was n't , cos I was on holiday at the last meeting , so I could n't check , I have down Grace , but it was also queried at the time . |
| 18 | Last year , right , I was on holiday in the South of France and I , I 'd made friends with these two German people and I 'm a bit wary of German people anyway , cos of what 's happened and everything . |
| 19 | Sort of , when we went to see Jan 's mother for Christmas , I was saying to myself yeah , mm this time last year I was on holiday from work |
| 20 | ‘ You remember four years ago , when I was on holiday by the sea , in Brittany ? ’ |
| 21 | Yes , if you can , if you can recognise it , or if you 've got , or if , several members of erm , several students we had when I was on grocery at Camden , we had to , I think it was twenty eight on Saturday afternoon , they might have been on checkouts , well I mean , they 're still scheduled to my , I 'm saying out of that about four of them er , are still working at Camden full-time . |
| 22 | I was on top of the world . |
| 23 | ‘ One minute I was on top of the world and everything was going right . |
| 24 | if it 's worth trying to hit anything I was on top of him |
| 25 | I was on watch at the time getting colder and colder and wetter and wetter . |
| 26 | Some years before , when he was hunting for a mill in the West Country , and I was on tour with some show or other , he wrote me : |
| 27 | Friends were surprised at how often I would stay on their floors after an evening out , and I would alternate between trips to my parents ' house in Wales and visits to friends from pre-army days , who I would surprise by telephoning to say I was on leave from the regular army . |
| 28 | : I was on leave from the WRAF and waiting at a bus stop in the town on my way to visit my grandmother . |
| 29 | ‘ I was on leave in Dorset , yes . ’ |
| 30 | I thought it right to apprise Cyril of what had happened at Muirfield , but having corresponded with the Seniors secretary , he assured me I was on course for election . |