Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were looking to buy a high-performance sports car in 1965 , what would you have chosen ? |
| 2 | To think of it another way , if you were asked to mend a broken chair you would not use every tool you had just for the sake of showing that you had them . |
| 3 | You may still be able to emphasize the division by decorative changes , to give your dining area its own atmosphere , as you would if you were trying to divide a simple rectangular room . |
| 4 | If you were to try to see a top specimen of every breed at Crufts you would have to attend on all four days and walk a good couple of miles ! |
| 5 | Er when you did get a suit it had to be kept for Sunday , for going to chapel you see , and if you were going to have a new suit it would always be at anniversary time , you did n't get one every anniversary . |
| 6 | And what happened in eighty three and eighty seven of course was that the local elections take place the Conservative party managers analyzed the results , fed them through the computers and you could come up with the fact that you would , looked like you were set to win a general election . |
| 7 | There were only 24 hours to go , but we were determined to make a good first impression . |
| 8 | And we were sitting having a wee drink |
| 9 | Unfortunately , both clubs went bust just as we were starting to draw a decent audience ! |
| 10 | On the first occasion , when a clear moonlight night was forecast , the most atrocious storm developed and we were forced to spend an uncomfortable few hours benighted near the summit of Elidir Fawr . |
| 11 | We were forced to arrange an extra weekend in Birmingham from 12 to 14 May . |
| 12 | In the frozen hours of dawn it all appeared rather benign , but on our return , some five weeks later , we were forced to run a sobering gauntlet . |
| 13 | in the Maternity Hospital of San Salvador , we were told to perform a monthly average of 15 sterilizations per day . |
| 14 | ‘ Michael 's a brilliant lyricist , he can talk about things that matter without it being obvious , so when we got together there was no way we were going to do a creamy , greasy duet . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought we were going to get a just Home Secretary . |
| 16 | Did I , but you you you brought it up last meeting , that that that erm people were going as supposed to be coming back with good ideas as to how to cope with interviews in other rooms , but we said in last time that we were going to have a personal round bill . |
| 17 | " Here are the Maplin Sands , off Foulness Island , where at one time we were going to have a great new airport complex , " he said . |
| 18 | ‘ I knew we were going to have a stormy passage right away , ’ said Milestone . |
| 19 | ‘ We were going to have a nice family Christmas . |
| 20 | Denis Taylor : ‘ We decided we were going to have a new singer and hold auditions , the idea being that we would go to the old club we used to play in called La Discothéque , which was in Wardour Street , not far from the Whiskey-a-GoGo . |
| 21 | I remember because in nineteen thirty eight , er we were scheduled to have an opening in about the September and we got a team coming down to play us at football and we were going to have a social evening , darts and that , at , in the evening and of course at that particular time , the war was a definite threat . |
| 22 | We were going to have a special meal … . |
| 23 | We were going to have an 80-foot Brussels sprout flying above Battersea Power Station — and it nearly happened ! |
| 24 | They were intended to provide a rapid procedure under which objectors would have no right to state their case at a public inquiry , and the commission was not required to disclose the purpose for which the land was needed . |
| 25 | Together they were intended to provide an interactive , multimedia snapshot of British society 900 years after the Conquest . |
| 26 | The competition , which was open to students at colleges across the country , required entrants to answer four mini essay questions relating to course work and the five finalists met a panel of judges where they were asked to give a short presentation on one of the subjects . |
| 27 | They were asked to give a positive or negative response as quickly as possible indicating the presence of absence of this ‘ probe ’ digit in the memory set presented . |
| 28 | When they were asked to make a rhyming judgement , the shadowing interfered with performance , as it did with the judgements about rhyming word pairs . |
| 29 | They were asked to make a mouthwatering meal for four using two ducklings , a savoy cabbage , potatoes and up to 3lbs of other ingredients . |
| 30 | They were trying to earn a decent living as human beings . |