Example sentences of "[verb] i [was/were] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to pretend I was him ! |
| 2 | I mean I was what I 've mentioned it like to someone in my class . |
| 3 | ‘ How did you know I was there ? ’ |
| 4 | I pretended I was someone else because when I 'm vibing with someone about other people 's records , I can pull it off . |
| 5 | Women would come up to me very unhappy about how I walked out on my children they REALLY believed I was their mother . |
| 6 | We wasted days and days dancing in the Pink Pussy Club , yawning at Fat Mattress at the Croydon Greyhound , ogling strippers on Sunday mornings in a pub , sleeping through Godard and Antonioni films , and enjoying the fighting at Millwall Football Ground , where I forced Changez to wear a bobble-hat over his face in case the lads saw he was a Paki and imagined I was one too . |
| 7 | My conscience over that headache of an interview you 'd promised Cara — and me making believe I was my sister — was really getting to me . ’ |
| 8 | I was the black sheep , you see , and Aunt Pamela did n't want the neighbours suspecting I was my father 's son . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Like I was your little girl . |
| 10 | And erm I remember I was I was about fifteen now and my young brother was only a little tot about two I think three and I remember my father came in and he did he went straight for my mam for nothing at all . |
| 11 | Jean-Claude said , handing me an affidavit , to swear I was his wife . |
| 12 | Just because there were two of them and they had a knife at my ear , they thought I was their prisoner . |
| 13 | ‘ For many years people thought I was something of a rebel or a madman , ’ Annesley recalled . |
| 14 | They thought I was something the cat brought in . ’ |
| 15 | The first time the bird opened its eyes , it thought I was its mother and imprinted on me . |
| 16 | ‘ And I thought I was your first . ’ |
| 17 | Yes , that 's not very nice , I thought I was your friend . |
| 18 | He has no illusions about why he was chosen for the Fogg job : ‘ They thought I was someone who would n't mind the suffering involved — and someone who was cheap . |
| 19 | I had an idea that he thought I was someone else . |
| 20 | Well , she did , but she thought I was someone else . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought I was his best friend . |
| 22 | He seemed to think I was your niece . ’ |
| 23 | He called me Louise , and seemed to think I was my sister . |
| 24 | He still seemed to think I was his baby . |
| 25 | I said I was myself but , but what get 's me is people stand there chat , I mean your walking behind them and then all of a sudden there just stop dead , and you must be carry on walking oh god there 's about twenty of them there blocking the fucking isle |
| 26 | I introduced your name in the conversation , said I was your Factor , told him that you were in the Lakes for pleasure but also with an eye to acquiring property , etc. , etc . |
| 27 | And when I said I was he held out a massive paw that gripped my hand as though in a vice . |
| 28 | He says that 's a when , he said I ca n't let June come to work he said I was he said first things that went through my mind were someone 's decided to finish , what 's gone off ? |
| 29 | I had to sleep in the same room as loads of them on account of we said I was his secretary . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I wish I were you , ’ Alexandra said , ‘ I wish I were a mouse , ’ and then , drawn inexorably , she leaned forward across the table and looked down through the closed window at her mother 's upturned face below . |