Example sentences of "i [vb base] [noun] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but you could see , you could see , that , I mean Pete were getting about hundred and twenty pound a week . |
| 2 | I mean bananas were , were , only children had bananas and er orange juice , you , you got that at the clinic and cod liver oil , terrible horr horrible cod liver oil . |
| 3 | And they were laid off I mean squads were laid off even before the boat was anywhere near finished . |
| 4 | I mean people were dying , men were dying , my brother died , he got killed in the War , pe every day you went to work and somebody would tell you , So and so 's died , you remember so and so , he 's died . |
| 5 | Because in in the early days when it was invented I mean people were actually embossing the dots on by hand individually erm so er anyway yeah so , yeah that , that would be excellent , yeah , mm . |
| 6 | his his delivery I found very solid , I mean I did n't find it particularly humorous but I mean people were n't laughing that much were they ? |
| 7 | I do n't think that one could have a consensus with that regard , I mean people were split really on that issue erm as I have said , personally I was always against the whole thing , against the war in general between Iraq and Iran because it was devastating for both countries . |
| 8 | And although as I say people were very poor they seem to be very happy some of them . |
| 9 | Because as I say people were that poor they they knew that they just could n't afford to er to get anything you know . |
| 10 | Similarly , a sitrep from 1st Guards Bde on 18 May [ KP 176 ] reported : " I Welch Regt were obliged to withdraw their Coys to the North bank of the DRA U , leaving the Croats on the South bank to the tender mercies of Tito 's troops . |
| 11 | I thought well after ten years , I thought , well I want I still want to get on and erm so I heard of this job down at Cambridge Station as Assistant Manageress at the Refreshment Rooms , you see , and er it was n't quite the same because er at Ipswich , you see , although the Catering Manager 's office er my work was office work and typing you know general thing and er because he was away most of the day , most days , because of er er the ten stations er from stretching as I say from Chelmsford , Witham , Marks Tey , Colchester and er I think it was Clacton and er and Manningtree and er I think , I do n't know Manningtree and Ipswich of course and er then er Bury St Edmunds and , and that 's it and I am not sure whether you went to Newmarket or whether to Ca whether to Cambridge now Newmarket but er , you see , so the days went on and we worked every other Sunday and of course I know things were a lot cheaper then but you see the pay was n't , was n't very good . |
| 12 | She 's had help now , but what a pity , you know , then I guess people were n't so aware of what could be done , but what a pity she could n't have had help at the time . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose people were afraid too . |
| 14 | I think blacks were designed to use our speed and agility . |
| 15 | Well then they all come out , everybody , even Dave come out of the union and the only two that were left in it were Jane and Karen on our side and a couple from the warehouse and like there was Judith and I think Sonyou and a couple from the letter shop I , I , I do n't know , I do n't think Elaine went but I think the rest were , yes there were Pam and I think , I think Nigel were , but anyway when Judith comes up about what union money was left , I do n't know where it was left from or how it 's imposed , but they split the |
| 16 | mm , this weekend I think Easter were last year |
| 17 | I think Holland were the better side last night … patient & pretty smooth moving the ball around ( compated to our typical British ‘ pashion ’ ) . |
| 18 | ‘ I think relations were strained to the limit for a few days . |
| 19 | I think people were just dying to seize upon anything they could find . |
| 20 | And I think people were quite suspicious of of their neighbours . |
| 21 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 22 | You know we managed to man the gates in working hours and forced the company to shift slate at ungodly hours in the morning , and I think people were impressed that we managed to stick it out . |
| 23 | ‘ In our case , I think people were looking further afield for education without realising that they had a very good facility close to home . |
| 24 | I think people were fed up with the strikes Larry . |
| 25 | Abnormal Msp I fragment patterns were detected in patients E , C and G ( lanes 4 , 5 and 9 , respectively ) and also in patient D ( not shown ) using the partial cDNA 6G11 . |
| 26 | ‘ He told me , ‘ Joey , I wish faces were disposable . |
| 27 | Other mothers are always saying , ‘ I wish mine were still the age yours are . |
| 28 | I wish Liz were here . |