Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and I were eating heartily when Byron threw down his fork and cried , ‘ Oh for the horrors of polite society again ! |
| 2 | At the time I was playing a Les Paul , which was n't my first choice because I had been playing Telecasters when Stevie ( Nicks ) and I were working together before we joined Fleetwood Mac , but when we joined the band there was an existing sound and the Telecaster was n't cutting it . |
| 3 | And then I were coming home and I were , I were really awful . |
| 4 | If I were saying here that I do n't approve , then obviously it would be of no value , it would just be generation gap inanity , but it 's not that , and approval does n't come into the equation . |
| 5 | During the 70s , I was using more or less steady throughout . |
| 6 | I was beginning to feel sleepy , and very cold ; the temperature seemed to have gone down , and I was shivering even while I sweated from the furnace-like emanations of the curry . |
| 7 | By the end of the week I was still having the occasional fake nightmare , I would suddenly go very quiet and shivery every now and again , but I was eating more or less normally and could answer most questions quite happily . |
| 8 | Steve Cauthen , who finished 16th of the 19 runners on one of the leading English hopes , Cacoethes , said : ‘ I was hampered continually and had no sort of run . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd driven over , and could n't believe a country so beautiful could harbour such violence as I was to see then and year after year ever since . |
| 10 | I was warned again and again by friendly police officers of some rank to slacken the pace : and I refused . |
| 11 | Fergus said , ‘ And so I was sent away and Grainne was permitted to remain at Tara . ’ |
| 12 | I was sent hither and thither on messages , and sometimes went in the car with a billeting officer to help him or her with young children who were being placed in homes . |
| 13 | I was sent there and they too were strict , severe . |
| 14 | ‘ I was sent home because the girl next to me was smoking , ’ said Amy . |
| 15 | I was born here and I try to stick up for Britain — but things are bad . ’ |
| 16 | No you don't. because er I naturally I went away to work but er I was born here and er you see and , and wh what else did you want ? |
| 17 | mother 's house in because my father was in in the first world war so my mum had to go to live with my grandmother and er I was born there and er then when my father came home we came back to my mum came back to she ha got a little house somewhere I forget where it was street , does n't s it 's not there any more . |
| 18 | I was struck more and more by the fact that there are comparable celebrations of human brilliance in the most deprived places . |
| 19 | Who did I think I was imagining glibly that I could bring up a child all by myself ? |
| 20 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 21 | I think I was treated differently because I 'm Black . |
| 22 | I 've never heard of anyone working the hours I worked but then again I was living there and that was my disadvantage . |
| 23 | I actually believed I was thinking clearly as I plotted ways of fleeing the country before having to pay the thousands of pounds I appeared to owe . |
| 24 | Now I was thinking clearly and coldly . |
| 25 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 26 | " I was thinking maybe that Hughie Green would be in Dynmouth , Mr Feather . |
| 27 | I was thinking maybe when the money was getting split up you know ? |
| 28 | I was thinking recently that if anything was a prime candidate for digital remastering , it would be the early Queen albums … |
| 29 | he kep I was laying there and I was just dropping off to sleep , I was oh it was , and he , in h in he waltzes oh I , he , I , he goes what you doing in here ? |
| 30 | But th i i i I was reading somewhere that they 're bringing it back in again . |