Example sentences of "[subord] we [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we were to carry out a similar survey in the future and recording conversations would you be willing to take part ? |
| 2 | For as well as suggesting that if we were to give up the view that most actions are autonomous we should have to give up a great deal else as well , it asserts that this transformation of our attitudes is actually beyond us . |
| 3 | Of course , if we were to add up the term in every market/island in the economy we would have the answer zero — the markets with below-average demand cancel out those with above-average demand . |
| 4 | If we were carrying out a similar survey in the future , recording conversations , would you be willing to take part ? |
| 5 | If we were to wind up the POWs fund and pay out the money once and for all to all POWs that we could find , we could run into severe problems in the next 10 to 15 years as these chaps get very old and need help even more . |
| 6 | One particular sadistic character opened up his observation hatch while we were groping around a smoke filled tank , looked in with a satanic grin and shouted , " Ha ! |
| 7 | And as I said , I spoke to the supervisor , switchboard supervisor , Di Combes , when we were setting up the course , and asked her what sort of things she would like to put across at a course like this which would make the switchboard 's job easier . |
| 8 | She has been a couple of times but er when we were bringing up the family course she could n't reasonably go with me every week and er , but she had used to be er a good supporter when she was a girl , she used to go with her father in those days my son 's been with me , cos I took him las well he took me last night with his wife I went in their car . |
| 9 | My actual first thatching was done at Chessington Zoo on the ladies ' loos when we were helping out a fellow franchisee with whom Eric had trained . |
| 10 | Erm when we were picking up the trunk off erm Uncle Alan who 's on on the beginning of the fishing |
| 11 | So my sisters er When we was coming down the lanes , now them country lanes , were n't all done nice , they were grass , where the carts used to come through . |
| 12 | As we were clattering down the worn red tiles of the corridor , a junior aide bumped into De Gaulle , apologising with great profuseness . |
| 13 | Then , just as we were tying up the canoe , came the first heavy spats of rain on the leaves and with a roll of thunder the heavens opened . |
| 14 | When a girl whom I knew only as Meriel remarked , as we were washing up the cocoa-cups , that she was ‘ brought up in a bog ’ , and I commented naïvely that she had no trace of Irish accent , the unassuming daughter of the Earl of Meath merely smiled . |