Example sentences of "i [was/were] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I jes ' ordered you t'take charge of the prisoners , told you I wuz goin' t'check on somethin' , an' took off . |
| 2 | ‘ Anyway , like I wuz sayin' , this Angel One character 's still on th'loose . |
| 3 | Then , serious again , he continued soberly , ‘ Anyway , as I wuz sayin' , I do n't think we 've anythin' to worry about as far as this Angel One fella 's concerned . |
| 4 | If I were writing the article today … |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not as though I were writing a new book , ’ Elinor said crossly . |
| 6 | If I were writing it now … |
| 7 | It happened in a flash , although in retrospect everything seemed to occur in slow motion , as though I were watching from another planet . |
| 8 | I were watching it , every time you cough it starts flashing . |
| 9 | And her that , I were watching , that hit her you 'll never guess what she did ? |
| 10 | I were watching her do it . |
| 11 | And then er I were telling you about the er where the marshes was n't I . |
| 12 | Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that . |
| 13 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |
| 14 | Long after I came to the army as I were telling you I used to go to pictures , I were in the S in the Savoy down Mostyn Street one one night I went and there in the programme there was this old er travel picture er some town or other th . |
| 15 | That was my auntie and that was the l the woman who gave me that tea set I were telling you about . |
| 16 | So I says , I , I were telling him though , I 'm going ten o'clock my car needs done ! |
| 17 | I were telling you about Irene , I were filling this thing in and I put right , sixty four I were gon na put sixty four , that were it . |
| 18 | I were telling you about that sugar place , we 're doing it again . |
| 19 | he says , cos me boyfriend were supposed to be coming down and I were telling our Michael he says , oh , he 's black . |
| 20 | If I were looking for a record deal , I would be pursuing individual A&R people , getting them to come and see my band . |
| 21 | If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail . |
| 22 | I were looking at your feet but |
| 23 | as if I were looking |
| 24 | Tal talking about pensions Tom , the chap er cha with the office girls and that and , and checking our expense sheets , he , he er they put a notice on the board you could ante your what , in your pension , you could a put a bit more into it and I were looking at notice and he says ooh he says it 's no good for you , he says er w well I told you about it did n't I ? |
| 25 | There 's the one I were looking for . |
| 26 | I noticed , I were looking at prices , they 're all different prices . |
| 27 | Anyway I were looking and I looked and I looked and I looked and I says well what cigarettes do you use for it ? |
| 28 | I were looking at that one |
| 29 | I were looking for an alarm clock , I thought I better have a new one else I 'm gon na start sleeping in for work . |
| 30 | Cos I were looking at Steve 's . |