Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been living in the city for three years and if I were to go to the estates now they would n't give me work . |
| 2 | Tom and I were led through the mock-Thirties-liner interior to a table in a rather draughty corner , and were brought freezing spritzers , black bread and tempting French menus . |
| 3 | Sergei said Bernard has n't been in touch with Bailey for days , certainly not since C.W. and I were assigned to the case . ’ |
| 4 | One day , soon after our night outside the castle , Princess Flavia and I were riding through the town when we saw a group of people dressed in black going to the church . |
| 5 | Marius and I were chosen by the rest of the group to finish off punishing him . |
| 6 | I wonder if the Secretary of the Cabinet would go into the box if I were found outside the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 7 | One day , while he and I were walking on the moors , he announced , ‘ Jane , I 'll be leaving in six weeks . ’ |
| 8 | Flora and I were walking through the palm grove , on mud paths between tiny squares of pale green barley . |
| 9 | If I 'd a , if I were walking down the street going Nigger ! sorry ! |
| 10 | MY WIFE and I were walking in the Lake District when I slipped and fell . |
| 11 | I dropped my right wing suddenly as if I were turning into the cloud and immediately swung over into a steep left hand turn . |
| 12 | Early fog had cleared and the airport manager and I were standing on the tarmac lining up the motorcade when my car phone rang . |
| 13 | ‘ However , what upsets me is that I have heard unconfirmed rumours that some of the riders were threatening to pull out if I were put in the third row of the grid as was at first planned . |
| 14 | I could never replace you … never find your equal if I were to look until the very day I die . ’ |
| 15 | We saw , we saw one or two others that were involved , that were involved in it , and er I were talking to the , one of the young producers that were there and er and I said if you 're short of some ac actors I said me and my mate will be actors you know , oh she said you 're dressed just right I 'll tell ya |
| 16 | Molly , Edith ( Harlow ) and I were talking about the Medauring in Germany started by Sofie Trappe , and I said we ought to form a group in England — Molly 's reaction was ‘ that 's fine Andy so long as I have nothing to do with the organisation ’ … so that year we formed the Studio Club . |
| 17 | Miss Maton died in 1923 and about a year later I remember that my friends and I were playing in the street when there was a sudden shout from a young man . |
| 18 | One Sunday afternoon , when Dana and I were sitting on the edge of the bed working over versions of various poems , the door , which we always left unlocked , suddenly burst open and a group of surly-looking students entered , led by a big bully who was not Spanish but Venezuelan . |
| 19 | One Saturday evening , when I had been apprenticed to Joe for four years , he and I were sitting in the pub , with some of the villagers , listening to Mr Wopsle . |
| 20 | One night my mother , my father and I were sitting in the dining room . |
| 21 | And I always think back to the er the time I think Edmund and I were sitting in the back garden here and deciding that we 'd go off and join the paratroopers |
| 22 | Last week I was gutted at the sale of Batts , but last night I was so happy that the scum failed . |
| 23 | ‘ When Boro played Peterborough United in the Rumbelows League Cup I was cheering on the lads . |
| 24 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 25 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 26 | Micheline sounded excited to hear from me and I was invited to the group 's meeting a few weeks later . |
| 27 | I was invited to the school in the village of Atgor . |
| 28 | I was invited to the Royal Premiere in London to view the production before it came to our theatre . |
| 29 | A few years back I was invited by the Church of England to be an ecumenical guest at a consultation , held at Ely , on the charismatic renewal movement . |
| 30 | I was invited by the owners of a struggling estate in Bardez province to look around their 300-year-old house . |