Example sentences of "and i [was/were] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would you chaps mind terribly if Barry and I were left alone ? ’ the other Rex asked . |
| 2 | And so demanding was Doctor Who that both Barry and I were working sixty- and seventy-hour weeks in those days , consistently . |
| 3 | ‘ In those days you had Charlie Griffiths chucking them like a 90mph dart and I was bowling slow left arm . |
| 4 | And I was thinking awful things — like how I could get my revenge … ’ |
| 5 | It was my lunch hour and I was dressed classic BR Clerk Chic ( beer-stained jacket , tightly knotted skinny tie , crimplene shiny ass pants and shoes with animal tracks and a useful compass in the heel ) . |
| 6 | I thought about it last night and I was laying awake all last night thinking about it |
| 7 | Oh I was bored to tears and I was eating whole time |
| 8 | My pole was varnished , and I was wearing white . |
| 9 | And I was getting tired , I 'd had no idea how much hauling one of those things around the sky would take it out of you , and then I was coming ‘ down ’ , ‘ down ’ fast . |
| 10 | We were living at Southport and we were being bathed by mother before the kitchen fire , and I was getting undressed and being helped with the buttons by the housemaid . |
| 11 | When we actually saw the approach lights we were 450 feet above the threshold , and I was getting ready to go around . |
| 12 | and I was getting ready to hear it . |
| 13 | The train was over five seconds late and I was getting cold . ’ |
| 14 | On that particular Sunday my chaplain would n't shut up and I was getting hungry . |
| 15 | Well er anyway as it , as it worked out , although I did a lot of s sloshing about , erm when I actually got to erm on to the four one four and I followed that through to the M one and straight up and I was running parallel with the M twenty five , virtually |
| 16 | But I got caught , along with my father , and I was knocked unconscious . |
| 17 | And I was knocked clean out of my right wits at first . |
| 18 | ‘ I had three kids , Australia seemed to offer them better prospects than England and I was proved right , ’ he says . |
| 19 | ‘ I knew he would get the humour and the pathos just right and I was proved correct . |
| 20 | They were a bit big for me but they were lovely and dry and I was feeling great when he came in with a bottle of champagne . |
| 21 | My sausages had n't been all that satisfying , and I was feeling hungry again . |
| 22 | And I was doing alright myself , I should n't 've let him do it . |
| 23 | No you see if you had n't have told me , and I was doing alright . |
| 24 | Well I 'm a single parent and I was left pregnant by my my boyfriend , I did n't have a choice in the matter of having I was quite happy , I was in love , I was quite happy , but I left , on my own , with a child so where does that leave me ? |
| 25 | It was n't a nice ten minutes , all the consoling thoughts I 'd scraped together during the night ran away and I was left alone . |
| 26 | But he did , and off she went and I was left alone . |
| 27 | A taxi was called and Hugo and the children left for Liverpool Street and I was left alone with my own thoughts , in a state of mind I could only describe as lustless . |
| 28 | When my parents went and I was left alone I cried for most of the night . |
| 29 | It was a couple of weeks before and I was left high and dry without a partner . |
| 30 | But he never came near me again , and I was left high and dry with all that power lying idle inside me . |