Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were to take this gun and shoot … who ? |
| 2 | I did that once with erm that bloody Comfort , I were using that . |
| 3 | If I were to choose any country in the world to live as a family in it would have to be somewhere different , perhaps exotic . |
| 4 | His reply is just about repeatable in this magazine : ‘ Look , ’ he said , ‘ big cars are for men with little dicks , and if I were to spend all my time polishing it , what would that make me ? ’ |
| 5 | When I left at two o'clock , Tally and I were addressing each other by first names ( ‘ Elliot ’ was strange to him and we settled for ‘ Ellix ’ ) and I was able to address the two waitresses by their first names without feeling uncomfortable . |
| 6 | I would be treading a little widely in the direction of sub judice if I were to answer that , because any decision is for the jurisdiction of the court . |
| 7 | I were gon na report it today then I got talking with gaffer I were sorting this job out |
| 8 | ‘ And , if I were to use all my available charm , you 'd be willing again . ’ |
| 9 | I were telling you about Irene , I were filling this thing in and I put right , sixty four I were gon na put sixty four , that were it . |
| 10 | No , If I were to do that , my psychiatrist would reckon it proved my cure was complete . ’ |
| 11 | From the Federation 's point of view , er I have substantially difficult , a difficulty , in guiding you as to where the new settlement ought to be , because in effect I would be choosing between members , and that is a certain route to my unemployment , if I were to do that , and I do n't wish to be unemployed . |
| 12 | And I were to guess that learning together is also a model of rich and diverse possibilities . |
| 13 | Well I got some foot long pruners but the branches were hitting our thing and I were doing this and , you know , and now I 've got |
| 14 | Yeah , cos I mean , I were saying that yesterday , that , that little bit of damaged carpet in there because it 's a carpet |
| 15 | If I were to get half a dozen hens and half a dozen pullets , because I think you would like their little tiny eggs , would that suit you ? ’ |
| 16 | DENNING J. stated the facts and continued : If I were to consider this matter without regard to recent developments in the law , there is no doubt that , had the plaintiffs claimed it , they would have been entitled to recover ground rent at the rate of £2,500 a year from the beginning of the term , since the lease under which it was payable was a lease under seal which , according to the old common law , could not be varied by an agreement by parol ( whether in writing or not ) , but only by deed . |
| 17 | I had a phone call , and you know that place I were going this afternoon ? |
| 18 | Now if I were to mix some of that with another substance I could make printing ink . |
| 19 | If I were to rewrite this book in ten years ' time , in the light of further research and experience , my own views might well have changed somewhat . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps it would help if I were to relate all this to what is known among the micro-electronic geniuses as ‘ virtual reality ’ . |
| 21 | But if I were to find such a change taking place while an animal is learning , unless the conditions for that change met all the subsequent criteria , I would be no further forward than the experiments of the 1960s that I criticized in the last chapter . |
| 22 | I were told that other day . |
| 23 | I felt I had to get clear early on if I were to have any real chance . |
| 24 | Would you object if I were to buy any other land that might be on offer , and work it with the farm ? ’ |
| 25 | I was nurturing this comforting thought when I turned into a large assembly room with numbered doors leading from it . |
| 26 | So I was nurturing this one in the greenhouse . |
| 27 | It was five-thirty in the morning , and when I finally got to sleep I was hating those birds . |
| 28 | Stockholm-based DJ Dr Alban — who has shot to No 4 with It 's My Life admits : ‘ I was drilling this guy 's tooth when all of a sudden blood started spurting everywhere . |
| 29 | He said ooh , he said there was some American students here last week and they were all swimming in there and the man came along with this thing and they bo they were all sat on the middle lo middle of there with their feet dangling in the water splashing away , he said I was dragging this down and this six footer came out , I said , and then they were he said , you 've never seen anybody run so fast in your life like they go |
| 30 | Mark Raggett , a businessman spearheading the effort , said : ‘ If I was to take some of these materials and technologies back to the Soviet Union , I would probably be breaking the law . ’ |