Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway I were looking and I looked and I looked and I looked and I says well what cigarettes do you use for it ? |
| 2 | And I was looking and they 'd got red , black in one window . |
| 3 | , but erm , and I notice that quite often the shelves would be half empty , came here , I would stop on the way back from the school the bank and the butcher 's and the paper shop over the road I could come in quarter to nine and I 'm , you know , I , I was done and I said to my Arnold they 're not going to sell much unless they put some money into filling the shelves surely Spa will back them , and he said I keep on telling them that I keep on saying to them if you do n't put the goods there on display people are going to go over the road to Lipton 's and and |
| 4 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 5 | I was smoking and he did n't say nothing to me , see . ’ |
| 6 | Cos he thought I 'd , I 'd smoke it , I was smoking and he did n't like it and then erm he told me I do n't wan na talk to you any more , blah , blah , blah , all that rubbish . |
| 7 | I was drawing and I read and and I played with toys and I read this game |
| 8 | She has got in ( and out of ) problems with drugs , alcohol and a quasi-religious cult : ’ I was brainwashed and I gave them an enormous amount of money , ’ she says with a shrug . |
| 9 | I was gardening and he said er er I bent over to do something and he said I just went dizzy , he said , and I fell over he said and then I realized my right side was paralysed . |
| 10 | " I was passing and I looked in . |
| 11 | ‘ I was passing and I thought I 'd just pop in and see how you were . ’ |
| 12 | The other thing I wondered when I was watching the video , you sat there at one stage , while I was writing and I thought , I thought , what are you thinking ? |
| 13 | I was drowning and it did n't hurt . |
| 14 | I was appointed and I 've got the job . ’ |
| 15 | and I said and I was hesitating and I said I 'm sorry I said I feel a bit embarrassed he said for what reason and old Rose was with me well at door she said she knows me she said well she said if it will interest you what if I never . |
| 16 | but you 'll see players who , I mean , I mean , did it the other day when I was playing and she did this , oh yes , she I said you 've moved it , I thoroughly accepted it was n't through , you should n't do that . |
| 17 | She had settled there to some extent by the time I was released and I did n't think it was good to disrupt her again . |
| 18 | The reason I 'm asking you about that is erm I had er I had when I had my own business I was approached and we 've got an estate agent in the Hamilton called |
| 19 | And this morning she jumped on my neck and I was sleeping and I woke up , you know what she does while she 's doing it ? |
| 20 | I , put me in a detention centre because I was shoplifting and I did n't like it there so I left ! |
| 21 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 22 | The sudden change of colour on the wall had upset its sense of direction and it buzzed about angrily and eventually it came into the porch where I was sitting and it stayed there for a few minutes and then went outside searching the wall again for the entrance . |
| 23 | It was my first baby and I was panicking and he said there was no need to panic ! |
| 24 | Anyway , I was shattered and I went to bed . |
| 25 | Without noticing its onset I found that I was crying and I went on crying until I slept . |
| 26 | ‘ So I was upset I said I did n't want to , I was crying and it made him madder . ’ |
| 27 | But you see , I just went to the education officer and I say , he , he ran it , he , it , it was , it was his responsibility the Guild 's were and I went to him about a Guild matter and I said oh , erm how I mentioned that I was working and he said well where are you working ? |
| 28 | But I would if I ever got a job and I was working and I had to make a casserole or something . |
| 29 | I used to do that when I was working and I had to leave at half four , used to do our kids , see when that clock gets to nine waken me I 'm fucking cold out our Ashley said mummy it 's after nine |
| 30 | The first time I was too young to know what I was doing and we split up after only seven months . |