Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I did not have the slightest intention of going down for a drink : all the drinking I was going to do was at the reception — if I ever got to the wedding . |
| 2 | Somewhat eccentrically , the question that I was going to ask was about next Wednesday 's business . |
| 3 | Mm That 's how I was , I was saying had been at the hospital , come back and says no , my |
| 4 | A French housewife recently thought that she had discovered the world 's first metal potato — until she realised that the object she was trying to peel was in fact a Second World War hand grenade , which had probably been scooped up by a potato picking machine before it found its way into her groceries . |
| 5 | Alas , it was said to have been of not much practical value . |
| 6 | He was n't sure which of them was meant to have been in school uniform . |