Example sentences of "[conj] i were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had somehow supposed her to sit in that room for ever , real only when Hugo or I were with her . |
| 2 | George and I were to be victims , I was to be taken to the top floor and George to the third floor up . |
| 3 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 4 | Wendy and I were at once amused and embarrassed , but also concerned lest he be mown down by a passing train . |
| 5 | We stayed in a cottage on the cliffs , overlooking the harbour , and within moments of arrival , my brother Ian and I were at the end of the pier , fishing . |
| 6 | ‘ Did you know that he and I were at school together ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Anna and I were at Alassio . |
| 8 | ‘ Rory 's a chap Bootsy and I were at school with , ’ she said . |
| 9 | He and I were at a lobby at the House of Commons yesterday , in er , celebration of the mobility allowance , which campaigned very successfully , and we , in the Community Transport field , have very close working relationships and communication . |
| 10 | ‘ Charles and I were at Sussex together . |
| 11 | Their natural children are very well qualified academically — they only played tennis — but my brother and I were into sport . |
| 12 | she was for the top of the hockey team and I were for the football |
| 13 | Normally when he and I were with girls he would be all competitive , even if he was n't meaning to be . |
| 14 | ‘ Heinrich and I were with each other all the time . |
| 15 | Even from where Taff and I were on the road it was obvious that the dead soldiers were German . |
| 16 | John and I were on the dole . |
| 17 | It needed no great powers of prophecy to realize that Nigel and I were on a collision course . |
| 18 | Finally Mary Knelle and I were on our way once more , driving past hillsides where neat black cut-away shapes showed that turf had been extracted . |
| 19 | ‘ What I would like to know is why you saw fit to tell barefaced lies to your grandmother while your Dad and I were on holiday . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Charles Laubscher and I were on standby , ’ relates Gerald Bellamy , ‘ and for some reason did not hear the scramble . |
| 21 | Years later Moira and I were on board the Queen Elizabeth II as guest lecturers when she sailed from Hong Kong to Acapulco in Mexico as part of that year 's world cruise . |
| 22 | Now Derek and I were on one side of the hedge , stuffing the ferrets down , and Brian was positioned on the other , with the bird , waiting for the evicted rabbits . |
| 23 | Mike the Rhodesian and I were on ‘ corvée ’ duties one afternoon and were carrying the dustbins out to the shed behind the cookhouse where all the rubbish was deposited , which was home to a lot of stray cats and some aggressive rats . |
| 24 | Vic and the crew were on the bank , Matt and I were on the raft with about a dozen Indians paddling and poling . |
| 25 | ‘ Dear Thomas and I were on the point of announcing our engagement . |
| 26 | Heather and I were on friendly terms by then . |
| 27 | Suddenly I found that he and I were on a collision course , both in Atlas aircraft . |
| 28 | And I were on fire from head to foot ! |
| 29 | He and I were of course aware that we were making two assumptions which were obviously incorrect . |
| 30 | My friends and I were of the resistance . |