Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today my brother and I were catching the 7.00 am aeroplane from Newcastle to Corfu . |
| 2 | I were flying the next day to Benidorm I 've had trouble all the time with me back |
| 3 | I wish we were having a picnic , and that it was hot , and I do indeed wish that we were all together ; though even if I were to hold the whole world against my chest , it would probably save us from very little . |
| 4 | ‘ It is n't very high on my list of priorities but I guess I 'd change my mind soon enough if I were to meet the right person . ’ |
| 5 | Without noticing it , while I was looking the other way , I had become old ; so old that I was an ‘ old lady ’ , known as such at the village school . |
| 6 | I was looking the other day , when I was looking for some of these things . |
| 7 | I was looking the wrong way . |
| 8 | I was looking the wrong way . |
| 9 | I remember this fear quite distinctly as that of being swallowed up into some great emptiness : the struggle for individual identity , central to phenomenon of anorexia nervosa , had already begun , and already I was using the appropriate metaphor . |
| 10 | Suddenly , one of the organisers called my number , I had to take off my socks and shoes as you had to do the jump in bare feet and I had to go over to get weighed again on different scales to make sure I was using the correct cord ( they were very safety conscious about every aspect of the jump ) . |
| 11 | But I was dreading the French paper to which I had only given the dregs of my time as I had had so much else on my plate . |
| 12 | I was dreading the inevitable hitching to Ullapool . |
| 13 | ‘ I was acting the other times , yes . ’ |
| 14 | I was calling the L-shaped room home for the first time , and thinking of it as such . |
| 15 | I was calling the white bag . |
| 16 | I was chatting the other week to a chap called Peter Davenport . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh yes , I was watching the six o'clock news . |
| 18 | Mm , what , something I what I was watching the other night erm , what on earth was , something , it was nineteen forty seven that were , it was er , it was an old repeat |
| 19 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 20 | I 'm not ashamed to admit that I was encountering the vast majority of the fish on show for the first time . |
| 21 | ‘ First , may I say how glad I was to see the honourable gentleman in the Government lobby last night , ’ Lang said . |
| 22 | A harassed young intern assisted by a cool , pretty nurse ( called Ruth , from Stanmore ) told me that I was bucking the statistical trend by having three fingers smashed between the knuckle and the phalangeal joint . |
| 23 | But if I was to ask the same question throughout industry today the answer would be very different . |
| 24 | He did n't realize I was guying the whole idea . |
| 25 | And I was born the same day . |
| 26 | The trouble is , I ca n't for the life of me remember what I was wearing the last time I went to see Angy , or on the day she died . |
| 27 | I spent about seven weeks there and I felt great inside but it was like I was wearing the wrong slip cover . |
| 28 | I was digging the last row next to the gravel path when my father returned . |
| 29 | He himself would put the fear of God into the professors of Königsberg and Breslau ; I was to do the same thing in Danzig . |
| 30 | A few days later I was touring the African townships . |