Example sentences of "i [was/were] i " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'm not a betting man , Miss Mackenzie , but if I were I 'd put my shirt on your being able to do just that .
2 In the time office , I worked that till I I were I did about er seven or eight months in there , and from there I went on the screens .
3 I were I were er We won that .
4 Yes well well I were I think I was running after me mother more than anything .
5 And I were I was doing the job there th that 's how I started on working on shore .
6 ‘ I 'm not your wife and if I were I would n't be suspicious anyway .
7 But I were I were upset about that , you know .
8 I were I were but I and were n't I Bet ?
9 I was me and it was both frightening and exciting , like driving very fast round a precipitous bend with someone now and again taking my hands off the wheel and forcing me to trust .
10 I used to be Harry Maxim , then I was me and Jenny , and now I just do n't know and it 'll take more than lemon tea and a pink silk handkerchief in my sleeve and reading Goethe over breakfast to tell me .
11 Someone who would smile when I walked into a room , look pleased that I had come home — not because they wanted something from me , but because I was me .
12 Oh if I was me and I was on my own I 'd ha I 'd have to have the telly in the bedroom .
13 Tell you if I was I would n't see you .
14 We had rather a lot to drink , and before I knew where I was I found myself being hustled into a broom closet by three men .
15 Snip , the mare , was n't as friendly or cooperative as Dick , and used to be very awkward when I was I sweeping the hay with her .
16 Well , maybe ‘ blossom ’ is an exaggeration , but I told Gillian one or two of Oliver 's jokes , and we talked about being apprehensive over coming to the group , and then it emerged that she was half-French , and I had something to say about that , and the estate agent tried to bring in Germany but we were n't having any of it , and before I knew where I was I had half-turned my shoulder to exclude the other chap and was saying , ‘ Look , I know you 've only more or less just arrived , but you would n't like a spot of supper would you ?
17 So I have , for the most part , named neither although wherever I was I sought a Black or Asian presence .
18 But erm I do n't think that the town show perhaps I was I 'm prejudiced to the fact that , that we 'll be losing money rather than making it but it was n't anything like we put on for entertainment !
19 I had n't bothered with landing lights and I was n't sure , any longer , where I was I only knew I had to keep climbing and that somewhere at the top was relief and safety .
20 Well I was I 'm
21 I was I was
22 I think the architects cos I was I was engaged in trying to find a sort of temporary work for er somebody in archaeology and and erm I remember I got to s to an architect and and he did quite a lot of that sort of work you know and they
23 About here I was I just had the urge you know
24 I was I was gon na suggest that Trevor an an and Andrew draw up
25 And and I was I was in in the grocery on Monday morning but erm we were go through a pack of you know .
26 N well I was I was erm I would have been called up in another two months after the War was over , if the War had continued I would have been eighteen in in that in the following January .
27 I can only really remember one occasion when my husband knew that I was I was taking Pills at the time , I think I took about twenty eight in one night .
28 I was I was er er we we were n't butties because butties worked on the face , you see ?
29 I 'd I was I was glad when they said no more can move into Green , cos I was thinking , Well my sister 's getting a house soon and my other sister she 's getting a house and I do n't want them two living round here as well cos the me mam and dad wo n't be able to see them either , you know if they move into the flats so I was glad .
30 flats , I was I was working erm in with a voluntary agency .
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