Example sentences of "[noun] i [was/were] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waterloo I was defeated you won the war . |
| 2 | That 's the story I was thinking you were doing it today erm it 's called the green knight , but he has a name does n't he ? |
| 3 | But you dare n't take the risk of trying it on in case I was calling your bluff and would refuse you . |
| 4 | When they reached their van they drove off a short distance in case I was observing them . |
| 5 | Wrapped in a white towelling robe I was making my way back towards my room when I encountered a tall bearded man clad only in a towel . |
| 6 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 7 | We 'd known that in the mountains and in due course I was to see it myself from the other side of the fence . |
| 8 | Except , that , except that of course I was doing everything for everybody . |
| 9 | During the afternoon I was given my answer . |
| 10 | Jean I was telling you all my problems . |
| 11 | Yeah granddad I was saying you know when erm you know when Richard was saying it 's an insult to be called a cockney when he 's not a cockney . |
| 12 | So , there 's something given , that entitles feedback I was giving you then , some people referred to it as this . |
| 13 | at the speed I was doing it keeps it to that , if I 'd of kept it to fifty it would of been a lot more |
| 14 | I was singing it in , not in my feet I was going I was me going to do all the words |
| 15 | ‘ Did you tell your parents I was taking you out today ? ’ |
| 16 | When I look back on my marriage I ca n't believe what a fool I was to allow myself to stay in that situation . |
| 17 | What a bloody fool I was to trust him even in this . ’ |
| 18 | Nicole , this is Alyssia , the young girl I was telling you about . |
| 19 | ‘ You remember the girl I was telling you about ? |
| 20 | But I was thankful when the summer holiday started and I could be released from duties I was finding it harder and harder to cope with . |
| 21 | From the moment I was born I was a nuisance . |
| 22 | Now came the difficult part : telling Patterson I was borrowing his car . |
| 23 | At the interval I was allowed my first glass of champagne . |
| 24 | Then on Monday I was told I was n't getting the vehicle . |
| 25 | After eighteen years I was feeling everything was against me . |
| 26 | Pendero was off the day I was riding him , that 's what matters . |
| 27 | The other day I was telling her about something that had happened , crying as I told the story , and she started crying too . |
| 28 | " It 's one of the things I was telling you about . |
| 29 | After about a week she was tearing off big lumps of the dead chicks I was feeding her . |
| 30 | So Sunday I was nursing myself until you came knocking on my door , and Monday I spent here , pottering about . |