Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were to choose any country in the world to live as a family in it would have to be somewhere different , perhaps exotic . |
| 2 | If I were to rewrite this book in ten years ' time , in the light of further research and experience , my own views might well have changed somewhat . |
| 3 | ‘ I would back myself to score 20 goals this season if I were to have three chances in every game , but those opportunities do not come so easy for me in Italy . |
| 4 | I was drawing these pictures in my head of walking across a tightrope and falling into a chasm . |
| 5 | When , in 1986 , I collected a new Nissan car that a sponsor had bought for me , I was stopped four times in one day because the car was new and , as I had been told frequently enough by the police when I worked on Ealing Community Relations Council , black men ca n't afford new cars . |
| 6 | The targets I was given last year in my appraisal were n't covered at all this year in my appraisal by the manager , |
| 7 | I remember years ago , when I was teaching slow learners in a Child Guidance clinic , a little girl from a small village was reading a story in which reference was made to someone ‘ cheeking the dinner lady . ’ |
| 8 | Well I was reading that article in the Sunday Times with you and the chap who 's the champion said he liked it because it 's like chess and bridge . |
| 9 | It 's quite a good subject though — I mean , I was reading this serial in my Mum 's Woman 's Own , all about this governess and this French Comte who was . |
| 10 | I was reading this article in a Playboy Magazine round at my boyfriend 's place , or was it Penthouse , anyway , I seem to be spending quite a lot o' time round at my boyfriend 's reading magazines and here it says how these several top U.S. psychiatrists had done this survey on how your emotions can sabotage your sexlife even if you are a man and here it blamed the sexually aggressive female of the seventies for the sexual recession of the eighties . |
| 11 | ‘ I was reading some rubbish in The Guardian … it 's almost as bad as The Observer … ‘ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ I was waving this wrench in front of her face , ’ 61-year-old Jean says . |
| 13 | With the great republic of Russia as our gallant ally , I was spending many hours in the hotel cafeteria with Rhys where he extolled the virtues of the Russian peoples . |
| 14 | I mean it could work on that basis then , that if , for example , I 'm just thinking about , well just from my point of view , when i was arranging that date in Stirling with the Oxford people , I could of said well , Thursday 's okay with me is it okay with you until I 've checked with |
| 15 | I was co-ordinating operational activities in the Institute , an international project on commodities last year , and I had to visit a number of research institutes in Asia , erm in Africa and in the Americas , where they were conducting studies on the commodities they produced . |
| 16 | The BEA also looked carefully at the possibility of importing plant and materials , but ( with steel prices significantly higher in the USA and Europe and considerable difficulties in obtaining foreign exchange ) they confined themselves to importing only a few specialist components which were causing serious delays in the programme . |
| 17 | In several respects this period witnessed a working out of the legacy of the Civil War , and many of the issues which were to cause political division in English society under the later Stuarts stemmed from problems which had been left unresolved by the Restoration of 1660 . |
| 18 | The Wolfson Archaeological Science Laboratories , which were opened last year in the first phase of the institute 's development plan , represent the latest advances in archaeology and incorporate modern developments in technology . |
| 19 | The main reasons for the delay have been my interest in self-preservation , my desire to protect the members of the gang , and my fear of exacerbating the gang situation in Glasgow which was receiving nationwide attention in 1968 and 1969 . |
| 20 | It is difficult to assess the impact of Christianity on a sector of experience which was undergoing profound change in the course of late antiquity . |
| 21 | A decision which was to affect future events in Burma was now concluded in New Delhi . |
| 22 | MPs had been pressing for an enquiry following the publication of a damning report on the state of school discipline by the Professional Association of Teachers in 1987 , which was given prominent coverage in the press . |
| 23 | This is , of course , titillating information for its readers , but we need to remember that this woman was now said to be happily married ; her child would now be aged 10 and could be quite aware of a trial which was getting widespread coverage in the popular newspapers . |
| 24 | Others have cast the Vikings as archetypical " market-men " ( perhaps the literal meaning of the word Viking : wic-ing ) , releasers of hoarded wealth , stimulators of social movement and peasant production : in short , as agents and prime movers of the economic growth which was to characterise western Europe in the High Middle Ages . |
| 25 | As my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) said this afternoon , any passenger who encourages and any driver who recklessly drives causing injury or damage is guilty of reckless driving , which was renamed dangerous driving in the Road Traffic Act 1991 and is liable to two years imprisonment . |
| 26 | A village which was flooded three times in a year has been celebrating the fact that it will never happen again . |
| 27 | However , in this latter nexus , the relation between the real wage rate and the level of aggregate demand — a relation which was accorded great prominence in the General Theory — was to become obscured almost to the point of invisibility . |
| 28 | The US balance of payments capital account deficit in the early 1960s which was undermining foreign confidence in the dollar , encouraged the US authorities to restrict overseas lending by resident US banks and the domestic financing of direct investment ( multinational plants ) abroad . |
| 29 | John Tame , chief accountant for the Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund , which was awarded first prize in Category 1 ( best report and accounts from a charity with income over £1m ) , explains : ‘ We 've entered for many years . |
| 30 | But nothing could be done until the MoD had considered the Devonport bid , which was submitted last month in spite of the refitting having been earmarked for Fife in the so-called core programme for the Scottish yard . |