Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After five minutes or so both Rick and I were properly awake and using his scoop technique ( which incidentally had n't been quite perfected ) my first catfish was on the bank . |
| 2 | I suppose we thought Vic must have said try it this way because Matt and I were already into our quarrel and it shows what a pro he was to his fingertips that he carried on as per normal . |
| 3 | Sebastian and I were later to be condemned from altars about divorce . |
| 4 | Sebastian and I were later to be condemned from altars about divorce . ’ |
| 5 | I may venture to add Jerry and I were probably the first Scottish kids to hear this coming over the air . |
| 6 | If I were reasonably satisfied that , other things being equal , substantially fewer persons would be murdered if the death penalty were available than if it were not , I should have opposed its abolition and would support its restoration . |
| 7 | Will and I were mostly at home in Stratford in the summers . |
| 8 | Both Mike and I were away at the time . |
| 9 | Course I were away then working , I were putting the bi the big plant in in Burnley . |
| 10 | If I were completely , it would n't matter . " |
| 11 | If I were completely sober I might just manage to get you back to Brides Haven , but I doubt it . |
| 12 | The first week-end , and I were frantically busy preparing for our first meetings with the students , and also unpacking and setting out all the books , tapes , etc. which we had got via the Embassy and the British Council . |
| 13 | I remember on one such occasion in early 1920 , my sister Gladys and I were upstairs in the top back room , looking out of the window , when we heard a terrifying scream . |
| 14 | I 've heard name before but I do n't know who he is cos I were n't watching it , I were upstairs , I 've only just come Hey guess what ! |
| 15 | ‘ I try to answer the question — If I were here , what would I be getting out of this experience ? ’ |
| 16 | I thought , when , last time I were here , I kept thinking , well , why 's he only doing it , 'cos I know he never done it before . |
| 17 | I 'd put it just down here , I marked it down here when I were here last last week . |
| 18 | ‘ Your Mum and I were just about to phone the police . ’ |
| 19 | I were just pretending to him , because I ai n't really full of beans . |
| 20 | My girl-friend and I were just making-up after a quarrel . |
| 21 | And and John and I were just in fits . |
| 22 | " Harry and I were just wondering how we were going to get her clothes on again . " |
| 23 | Oh yes I appreciate but I were just wondering what branches they were in , you 've explained that , that . |
| 24 | And the manager the un the the deputy met me he says , And I were just going down main road at nighttime as me dad were coming up . |
| 25 | And , for the slenderest sliver of a human second , wish I were just any other ordinary shortlife mortal lesbian on that dancefloor … |
| 26 | If I were just starting zandering from the beginning I would not even consider night fishing for them until I had got my act together in the daytime . |
| 27 | Billy and I were just good friends , really good mates . |
| 28 | Well no , but and I were just thinking well why ca n't it just be all things together that make us what we are and when you 're trying to find a single thing , the only single thing is the one , which is the unity and then there 's no differentiation but I do n't think that , that we are , we are our body as well and that then can affect the soul you know , if you , if you 've got a big nose and all your life people stare at you you 're gon na , you 're not going to be unaffected by it . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's all right , Dr Markham , ’ she replied , then in a sudden flash of inspiration , and hoping that David would realise what she meant , she said , ‘ Jimmy and I were just discussing visiting Len Seager in hospital . |
| 30 | ‘ My cousin and I were just discussing you , ’ Mandy admitted cheerfully . |