Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | Julia , delighted to see that the affection between them was solid enough to allow such teasing , said , as though she were considering some knotty legal problem : |
| 26 | I still remember my headmaster 's damning indictment : ‘ Jeannette could be a Cambridge scholar if she were to stop this nonsense of falling in love . ’ |
| 27 | She does n't , she did n't mind taping or owt , she were pretending that |
| 28 | ‘ She were born that way . |
| 29 | She felt again that same deep chill , that same sense of horror she had always felt when in the presence of such venom , as if she were discovering that evil really did exist , that liberal attitudes were vaporous , that filth could find its way into the universe and be embodied and spread relentlessly , terrifying those it infected . |
| 30 | She were doing all this that and i the audience was screaming were n't they ? |