Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 2 | Eventually Frankie and I were called in by Mum and told to get a wash and change as it was nearly time to go . |
| 3 | After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one . |
| 4 | I gave the old man a tip , and soon Mrs M. and I were speeding back to Ballina . |
| 5 | I were tidying up at half past six this morning . |
| 6 | The Clown was racing alongside and Lollo and I were showing off to him whooing and waving . |
| 7 | I felt quite calm again , as divorced from my own immediate problems as if I were coming out after seeing a particularly absorbing film . |
| 8 | ‘ I imagine so , if I were to dig around in my files . ’ |
| 9 | Late afternoon yesterday , my family and I were going up to Dunkil to visit the Bible class who About a dozen deer and one or two stags high on the hill . |
| 10 | He were parked up there well every coalman I 've pulled him about this coke stuff and I 'd seen him other day and I pulled him , explained that I were going over on April first |
| 11 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 12 | What , and I were brought up in church ? |
| 13 | I were knocked back on the bloody floor . |
| 14 | In Tblisi , Stalin 's birthplace , my wife and I were shown around by enthusiastic Georgians from the Technological Institute . |
| 15 | Through the communicating voice tube I was invited up to the bridge . |
| 16 | Three weeks ago I was invited down to a meeting of water workers . |
| 17 | She was hard at work in her jealously private workshop , though she called in briefly at the library from time to time , and I was invited back to the Lodge for meals some evenings . |
| 18 | I was invited back to Clandeboye after the game by some other friendly Bangor folk . |
| 19 | Last weekend I was invited out to Sunday lunch by the young teacher who is involved in organizing this course . |
| 20 | Thursday , 18th : After the day 's programme , I was invited out by , a local participant , to visit another garden of the Moghul era , where we saw a son-et-lumière celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Jaipur by the Maharajah Jai Singh . |
| 21 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
| 22 | As it happened my ‘ tablees ’ were fine and fun-filled and the only remaining knee jerk came after the Duchess had made an excellent speech and I was called up before 150 people for the photo call , which turned out to be a speech . |
| 23 | One morning I was called up in front of the 2ème Bureau and walked into an office to be interviewed by three Sergeants who spoke perfect English . |
| 24 | A week later I was called back to Downing Street by Margaret Thatcher and told that I was taking over the Department of Health and Social Security and also the question-and-answer session . |
| 25 | It happened that I was called back to the farm on the following Thursday to " cleanse " a cow and was in the byre when Dodson the drover called to pick up Blossom . |
| 26 | I was called back in . |
| 27 | One day I was called back from my duties of covering the coroner 's and juvenile courts and told that henceforth I was to be the paper 's " walking reporter " tramping the Dales and picking up whatever stories I could find . |
| 28 | I woke to manoeuvre a rock under the groundsheet , then to put cream on my burning ears , later to pull my knees up to my chin to get warm , then to eat some dates , and finally when I was called out by diarrhoea . |
| 29 | She explained : ‘ I was called in at the last minute to help style a photographic session for Kylie about 18 months ago and it went from there . |
| 30 | They were arguing about who had the softest fabric and I was called in as arbitrator . |