Example sentences of "were [v-ing] and i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shops were opening and I browsed for a while in one that sold books as well as newspapers and magazines , but I failed to find the American edition of Rodriguez 's book . |
| 2 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 3 | Anyway I were looking and I looked and I looked and I looked and I says well what cigarettes do you use for it ? |
| 4 | and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes . |
| 5 | Well if you 've got a cloth er parcel with , with , wrapped in cloth you know everybody knew where you were going and I did n't like people to know I was going to , been to the pawnshop . |
| 6 | That 's what they were saying and I fought them . ’ |
| 7 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 8 | It , it was a really nice size shop Walsall Wood was , but my sister , remember is eighty-two , I asked her , I told her you were coming and I asked her if there was anything she could tell me but er she do could n't tell me much more than myself . |
| 9 | and they were losing and I went to spur them on . |
| 10 | People were boarding and I elbowed my way into line . |
| 11 | We were talking and I heard myself say , " It must have been a very terrible experience , being with those Apaches . " |
| 12 | New characters were emerging and I began to meet cutter stalwarts such as Denis Mawe , Dick Fidler , Doug Thompson on the deck side , and veteran engineers Joe Reynolds , Eric Langmaid and Alan Cull , the latter two great friends of mine now sadly deceased . |
| 13 | I went out where the rest of the staff were working and I told them ‘ I am leaving . |
| 14 | By the time I got into position , my lungs were bursting and I had to go up for air again . |