Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , ‘ What would my priorities be if the bad dream came true , and I were Minister of Health now ? ’ |
| 2 | I said you and I were man and wife , and to lose me would break or damage your bond with the King . |
| 3 | Complete this sentence : If I were dictator for a day … |
| 4 | Complete this sentence : If I were dictator for a day … |
| 5 | I were dickeyup in a week . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been flung into a filthy cell with a lot of other poor wretches as if I were sack of coals being emptied into a cellar . " |
| 7 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |
| 8 | Nigel , the old Charmer , and I were half-nelson 'd with mirth . |
| 9 | ‘ If I were manager I would … ’ |
| 10 | In fact I were shop steward in the , in the building trade , I was a shop steward in the building trade . |
| 11 | I hope that the foregoing has served to give some idea of the private legislation procedure from the point of view of a parliamentary agent , and I think in conclusion that it would be useful if I were summarise a few of the problems which appear to affect solicitors , executive officers and advisers locally . |
| 12 | A marriage between foreign nationals from different countries and of different religions would have been difficult enough in settled times , but it was rendered much more complicated now by the fact that whatever my family 's record might have been with regard to the Fascist party , my mother , my father and I were enemy aliens who had just lost a war . |
| 13 | Travelling along at such a pace was an experience she would have enjoyed no end on a happier occasion , and even now she savoured the luxury of sweeping by those on foot as if she were royalty . |
| 14 | ‘ Goodnight , ’ she said firmly , her chin tilted proudly towards the stars , as if she were royalty and not a woman sporting scraggly wet hair and a nearly see-through dress . |
| 15 | She was no lightweight , yet he had lifted her as though she were thistledown . |
| 16 | Yet he deposited her on it as carefully as if she were china , and that brought a weak tear to her eye . |
| 17 | She felt transported into their safe , happy world , felt as though she were part of it . |
| 18 | She I I mean she were brigadier and she 'd gone through all her life |
| 19 | She were blotto ! |
| 20 | I know she were , she were brick shit she were , I said to Lyn I said I 'm bloody sure , I could have actually , she , she were nearly eating out of my arm , in them last few weeks , I 'll tell you , ooh the encouragement I got about the driving ooh I ca n't do it Lyn and when I comes in that day the first test I had she 'd made a great big fucking cake |
| 21 | Quite a number of them were turning up at the BBC and the harassed receptionist was heard to say , as she reported the arrival of yet another , ‘ I 'm sorry , where did you say you were king of ? ’ |
| 22 | WHAT would you do if you were chairman of Hongkong and Shanghai Bank ? |
| 23 | The National Gallery became notably richer while you were Chairman . |
| 24 | ‘ But until a few years ago you were chairman , Mr Glastonbury . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You felt you were shit . ’ |
| 26 | erm I would suggest that anybody who 's really erm concerned in the way you were can either approach their local Education Authority and ask them for some kind of information on this . |
| 27 | So when you were stud groom |
| 28 | No disrespect to their craft , that 's their job , but would you like it if you were sister , working in intensive care or an A and E department to have your appeal judged by a plumber or a joiner and that 's what 's happening in the Mersey Region at the moment . |
| 29 | You were so completely his , calling him darling , kissing him goodbye , telling me you were childhood sweethearts … ’ |
| 30 | Crossing the worse danger zones was like some horrible game of ‘ Last Across ’ ; they told you that forty cuistots had got across safely since the last casualty ; you waited for the explosion , then staggered frantically over the open space , knowing that if you were No. 41 the next shell probably had your name on it . |