Example sentences of "i [was/were] a teacher " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were a teacher I would cook up some real scorchers for the children of doting parents . |
| 2 | If I were a teacher of French , I would be worried that 50 million French people would know ‘ my ’ subject better than I do ; as it is I have no such fears . |
| 3 | It reminded me of when I was a teacher and watched one of my pupils , Dan Waterman , grow up to be a fireman . |
| 4 | Many years ago I was a teacher but I was no good at that at all . |
| 5 | ‘ I was a teacher . |
| 6 | It 's about er ten years ago nearly that I er stopped being a teacher and when I was a teacher er up having to do assemblies er it was always something that I did with great reluctance and er was er pleased if I could get other people to do it er it seems rather odd then er that I 've actually said yes coming to do er an assembly here today and it 's perhaps a sign of mental instability on my part . |
| 7 | Er the only difference between the situation now and the situation when I was a teacher is that there are a lot of Christians in this room per square metre than there would have been in a school where I taught and that applies to where I work now er because er the number of Christians who are around me in in the workplace are actually even smaller I guess and er that may be something that er you will need to recognise is an unusual feature of your school life and that er as you leave school so you 're going to go into very different environments where people behave very differently . |
| 8 | they 're not putting money into delegated budgets now , I , I , I was a teacher , a head teacher and I was told that the erm , the essential , the educational departments finding more money for devices and to give advice to school , now , they 're all unnecessary as it is , I would say , we are the ones that carry out the job , we 're on the ground , we 've got to do it . |
| 9 | In fact I was a teacher and in fact I think you learn off children to be quite honest . |