Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |
| 2 | And then er I were telling you about the er where the marshes was n't I . |
| 3 | Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that . |
| 4 | Duncan , Bert and I were to secrete ourselves behind the curtains along with Aspel , who was to demonstrate the trick with the help of his three ‘ assistants ’ . |
| 5 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 6 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 7 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 8 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 9 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
| 10 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You were telling me about a party . ’ |
| 12 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 13 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 14 | You were getting yourself into a whole load of trouble , Fran , and I needed to ensure that there would be someone around to look after you when I could n't be . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 17 | And you got the odd look but it was n't too severe because at least though they had no clothes on at least you were holding them by the waist . |
| 18 | You were congratulating yourselves on the fact earlier , I know . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ So you were using me as a stud , min kaere . |
| 20 | If you were to compare it with a really accurate map there would be very little in common but the map achieves its aim successfully through massive simplification and artificial emphasis of the important features , in this case the stations and interchanges . |
| 21 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 22 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
| 23 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 24 | If you were to touch him with a pin — and he 's a boy or a girl by now — he 'd move away , he feels pain . |
| 25 | You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout . |
| 26 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 27 | It is easy to have an opinion about a moral issue like capital punishment , but if you were to discuss it in an essay you would usually have to give your reasons . |
| 28 | However , if you were to help yourself to a reasonably generous helping of watercress as part of a salad meal , it is unlikely that your portion would weigh more than half an ounce . |
| 29 | My guess would be that if you were to place it over the letter and shuffle it about a bit , some sort of pattern might well emerge . |
| 30 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |