Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | Fact that I was calling him a murderer had nothing to do with it . |
3 | Which which company if I was to give you a choice , and the luxury that most recruiters do n't have . |
4 | 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 ? |
5 | Well , it 's funny , I was telling Stephen , my boyfriend , about that , and I was telling him the question and he said |
6 | I was telling you the truth . |
7 | 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 |
8 | I thought I was giving you a lift |
9 | 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seven and I went to buy in March , April , May nineteen eighty eight , the figures in the service charges would be out of date |
10 | ‘ Does remembering how awed I was give you a thrill ? |
11 | ‘ I was showing her a bird , ’ Mandy interrupted , turning and wrinkling her nose in playful warning at Charity . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | If I was to enter it a number , one O two . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | As it turned out , I was doing him a service . ’ |
16 | I was doing him a favour looking after the house over Christmas . ’ |
17 | Well as far as I was concerned , I was doing what a doctor told me . |
18 | And I felt like I remember sometimes feeling as a child when I was doing something a bit difficult , a bit daring . |
19 | 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 |
20 | 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 |
21 | But how would he react if she were to tell him the truth ? she wondered distantly . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | ‘ If you were to give me a ha'penny I might tell you different ’ |
26 | ‘ You were pushing it a bit today , Fran . |
27 | This afternoon you came to my office as if you were doing me a favour . |
28 | She was using it a week later when Nathan walked in through the kitchen door . |
29 | Laying herself down beside Cad again in the hot room under the single sheet , she instructed her sister carefully , how she was to find Tommaso Talvi in town the next day , to come across him as if by accident , and then , if no one was listening , she was to give him a message . |
30 | As she spoke she was laying him a place at the kitchen table , and serving him his meal . |