Example sentences of "i [was/were] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Durance said : ‘ I believed that if I were there I could control what she told you . ’ |
| 2 | And I I last time I were there I went there for erm well to put it fairly straight I went to consult on something that 'd been done . |
| 3 | I was near it when I saw a man sitting on the ground , half asleep . |
| 4 | I thought I was past it but obviously not . |
| 5 | I said no I do n't , he said well what I was anyway he said I 'm retired now . |
| 6 | While I was away it must have rained . |
| 7 | Then while I was away she went on holiday straight after . |
| 8 | Well when I was here they were dealing with somebody er for stealing salmon out of |
| 9 | ‘ Last time I was here it rained for forty days . |
| 10 | ‘ When I was here it was Reid Street senior school for girls but of course now it 's a mixed primary school . |
| 11 | If I was outside I would have got a lot better treatment . |
| 12 | And and the write up in one of the papers well I was well I 'd to tell that guy if he 's watching I can ya nip ! |
| 13 | I was just You know I used to always maybe take one and if I got bad I took maybe two a day you know . |
| 14 | Well I was just I was just thinking , if you had a patterned paper and then you had you 're pattern in your |
| 15 | That one e erm I mean I 'm a I was just I I said twenty pound O six , it was a quick calculation , it ends up at seventeen per cent margin . |
| 16 | Yeah I was just I was just trying to do that |
| 17 | I was just I would n't be bothered anyway . |
| 18 | Something ag again you when you 're doing it , in other areas of the industry if you 're not taught the structure you , you are not taught properly , you get these very bad habits and essential thing which is coming out by not following the structure in order I actually wrote down er by missing the business card and the buyer 's guide at the beginning , I was actually I 've got to slip this in somewhere and not listening to what you were saying and some of what you said went straight over my head which is bad because you 're missing things then . |
| 19 | Something else I 'd just like to , I was actually I was erm aware that time is passing us by . |
| 20 | ‘ He wanted to marry me — he told me I was all he needed to make his life perfect . |
| 21 | I was never I did n't work in |
| 22 | Erm and when she was talking to me about different people , I 'd never know who they was , because I was never I was never that interested in Bay to er to find out who they was or to remember she 'd point out somebody and say that 's so and so and then when she 'd mention him a couple of days later I 'd go , Who 's that ? |
| 23 | I was like she was sitting next to me and you were like all trying to move me up and think |
| 24 | if you if you go and see this afternoon erm he would like to speak to you and I was like he should come and speak to me |
| 25 | he said to me it 's a bit late to go knocking on windows is n't it , and I was like I did n't say anything I just thought well |
| 26 | I mean I it 's different if I was like you know if the summer holidays and we were like this erm thing like erm a magic show that was on quite late or something . |
| 27 | That 's why they picked you , if I was like if I was like you they would have done it to me . |
| 28 | She thinks she 's er , when I was like you , when I was a big girl , |
| 29 | Erm I liked the children 's nursing , I was always you know fond of children . |
| 30 | But I was always you know , always awful tense at er There 's a wee there 's a wee woodworm there sitting . |