Example sentences of "i was [v-ing] [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was looking and they 'd got red , black in one window . |
| 2 | I 'm wearing a blue prison-issue shirt — open-neck , of course — and the jeans I was wearing when they arrested me . |
| 3 | I was hoping when they got that link road through they might connect up , but I do n't suppose it , sort of roads got ta put parking towards the long piece of |
| 4 | Yeah well changes platforms of all these trains , anyway after a bit we decided that the Redditch train was going to come in before the train , so , er they did n't change it to say it was n't going to Redditch cos once when I was doing that they said to me , the lad was it , because it 's not to ready to change that time , you would n't matter , cos oh there 's people here waiting to go to Redditch , change it , so he said oh anyway it came , the twelve six came all the young folks going to you should of seen the number that had got off |
| 5 | The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought . |