Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [v-ing] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and I were eating heartily when Byron threw down his fork and cried , ‘ Oh for the horrors of polite society again ! |
| 2 | I ca n't rem I were reading about when I were in hospital on er Tuesday while waiting |
| 3 | At the time I was playing a Les Paul , which was n't my first choice because I had been playing Telecasters when Stevie ( Nicks ) and I were working together before we joined Fleetwood Mac , but when we joined the band there was an existing sound and the Telecaster was n't cutting it . |
| 4 | And then I were coming home and I were , I were really awful . |
| 5 | If I were saying here that I do n't approve , then obviously it would be of no value , it would just be generation gap inanity , but it 's not that , and approval does n't come into the equation . |
| 6 | I mean I think we 're all when theirs were running about but they 're |
| 7 | She felt as if she were sinking deeper and deeper in her own panic , her whole consciousness going down into a quicksand while her body stood there , stupid with fear . |
| 8 | On the but she said erm that she were going away and I could work , cos the lessons finish on a sa start up there on a Thursday , she said , if I work Thursday , Friday , Saturday , Sunday and I could have Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday Thursday off . |
| 9 | " For God 's sake , Maureen , you were yelling yesterday that you could n't be bothered with it . |
| 10 | right , and I look over to Roger and Roger 's flicking through his notes like this and as you , you were peeping through and he 's trying to find out what , what he 's talking about , they 're not looking at each other and anyway at the end of it , er we went through it and at the end of it he turned round and went how was it , what were you playing at , what was that spiel that you gave it 's in my brief , that 's one of my objections |
| 11 | And you were hanging on and trying to keep your feet on the floor ! |
| 12 | When you were hanging over that skip the other evening — ’ he rolled his eyes ‘ — they seemed to go on forever . ’ |
| 13 | You were jumping up and down and then you fell off . |
| 14 | You know what you were taking on when you married me . " |
| 15 | But if you were locking up or cautioning , that was different — but you had to put it in your book that you had cautioned her . |
| 16 | Now some of you were nodding there and some of you were smiling , it might be that you actually would quite like to say you know that I believe it 's wrong for people to be born disabled , handicapped . |
| 17 | It 's as if you were leaning forward and you overbalanced . |
| 18 | Either it works or it does n't — it shows you whether you were thinking correctly and is a fascinating test of your own mind . |
| 19 | You 've always made it quite clear that you were staying here and that I could fuck off to the other end of the world for all you cared . |
| 20 | ‘ When you went to sleep , you were coasting along and everything was just floating . |
| 21 | As he said , you ought to know what you were giving up before you gave it up . |
| 22 | You were supplementing rather than competing with other musical institutions and also indirectly benefiting other orchestras ? |
| 23 | So he said erm , well in that case , he said erm , you were walking together but not arm in arm ? |
| 24 | Ah , when you were walking about and said I 'm trying this out I thought it was erm I thought our exercise bike had come . |
| 25 | If er if you were going out and you knew the coal man might be round that day so you just left a couple of coal tokens out at the door or whatever . |
| 26 | when you were going out and the had stopped and all the girls had a you know , the ordinary paper bag with a got their shoes in there . |
| 27 | Well I 'd forgotten that you were going out and I ma I was going to make a chilli . |
| 28 | but he he were getting cos you were going out and having a drink er on er Tuesdays Thursdays Saturdays and Sundays . |
| 29 | When your mother was sort of having a lot of a lot of children and and after you you know you you were growing up and she was still having children erm had you any idea of erm the processes by which all this was coming about ? |
| 30 | And the Saturday before that none of us had it cos you were gallivanting up and down the country with the |