Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have reason to believe that if I were to ask you the time you would n't be able to accommodate me . |
| 2 | How would he manage if someone were to hand him a cup of coffee , or to offer him a biscuit ? |
| 3 | Fact that I was calling him a murderer had nothing to do with it . |
| 4 | Which which company if I was to give you a choice , and the luxury that most recruiters do n't have . |
| 5 | Erm if I was to give you an option a choice of which market area you think you would be most happy with , where do you think ? |
| 6 | Well , it 's funny , I was telling Stephen , my boyfriend , about that , and I was telling him the question and he said |
| 7 | I was telling you the truth . |
| 8 | My mum said , she 's going my mum said , she was going to sign in because she was late , and then I was giving her a pen like |
| 9 | I thought I was giving you a lift |
| 10 | no , no , I was giving you an example to what would happen on the time scale , but let me go back to January nineteen eighty seven , if the brochure was printed in January nineteen eighty seven if the brochure was printed in January nineteen eighty seven and I went to buy in March , April , May nineteen eighty eight , the figures in the service charges would be out of date |
| 11 | ‘ Does remembering how awed I was give you a thrill ? |
| 12 | ‘ I was showing her a bird , ’ Mandy interrupted , turning and wrinkling her nose in playful warning at Charity . |
| 13 | This paradox remained until early 1974 , when I was investigating what the behavior of matter in the vicinity of a black hole would be according to quantum mechanics . |
| 14 | If I was to enter it a number , one O two . |
| 15 | And again perhaps to follow up a previous question and the question is this , that in the first draft of the statement of faith which was presented two years ago , there was a very clear statement which said that Christ died for our sin in connection with the cross and I was wondering what the reasoning was which took away that very specific meaning of the death of the Christ into a much more general and ambiguous one in the statement before us today . |
| 16 | As it turned out , I was doing him a service . ’ |
| 17 | I was doing him a favour looking after the house over Christmas . ’ |
| 18 | Well as far as I was concerned , I was doing what a doctor told me . |
| 19 | And I felt like I remember sometimes feeling as a child when I was doing something a bit difficult , a bit daring . |
| 20 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 21 | ‘ And it would be nice , ’ she added slowly , ‘ if someone was to give us a bit reading . ’ |
| 22 | So even if somebody were to offer us a piece which they would n't I 'm sure , a piece of old medieval furniture , we would n't take it . |
| 23 | His narrow victory at Mosport over Regazzoni put the two men equal on points with one race to go at Watkins glen , with Scheckter still in with an outside chance , and when Rega retired , Emerson settled in behind Reutemann , Pace and Hunt for the fourth place which was to give him the championship . |
| 24 | and she were telling me the guy that runs it wo n't let them talk to the customers , said that was pig ignorant surely |
| 25 | But how would he react if she were to tell him the truth ? she wondered distantly . |
| 26 | No , I thought she were giving them a pound and then taking change off them , she were getting change off them or summat were n't she . |
| 27 | She give us all these , like diseases and we had to learn parrot learn them the definition for them cos she were giving us a test on them . |
| 28 | I think the answer is that simply as it who were doing what the name would otherwise have done , erm for the reasons your Lordship has given and , and your Lordship has seen of course that the analysis of the relationship between the name and the agent , erm , certainly as far as Mr is concerned , indeed we said it certainly it follows from what , what article eighty five does , it does n't effect the extensible authority point but and the |
| 29 | Playing the exact same solos every night on tour is good too , because the notes are firmly ingrained in your head and that makes it harder for you to mess up in a major way , which is something that could happen if you were winging it every night . |
| 30 | ‘ If you were to give me a ha'penny I might tell you different ’ |