Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago .
2	I were real rubbish at school .
3	Slater glanced at Graham , " Sara and I were next-door neighbours for a while , I do believe our parents may even have intended us for each other at one time , without actually saying anything about it , of course . "
4	D' ya know , I got weighed on my scales other day , and I thought , I were eleven stone again .
5	Malc and I were all part of the same gang when we were 14 , sort of ‘ paired off ’ when we were 15 , and started putting our biology theory into practice at 16 .
6	He came to me He had a problem , he and I were good friends and he said that erm that this one girl s erm Michelle , was his favourite wife and that he had been with her since erm she was twelve .
7	As neither he nor I were long-term government servants , we were rather more critical of policies and decisions , and did our best to see that reasonable criticism was reasonably answered .
8	If a human observer sets out to interpret the " emotions " of a rat what else can he do except say of himself : " Now if I were that rat , how should I feel ? "
9	‘ How I wish that I were that dog ! ’
10	Szell and I were great friends .
11	Cos I were twenty minutes over the
12	If I were growing potatoes , like most sensible gardeners I 'd let them grow .
13	Terry and I were worst hit and for a couple of days I was left off the chain so that I could use the toilet whenever I needed .
14	People milled past , skirting me as though I were bad luck .
15	so he said I said I do n't have to tell you where I were last night David , I were out , so I said even if I were in it 's none of your concern I said what I do in my private time is up to me , he said well why was n't you there ?
16	I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton .
17	as if I were some Arab with five gold watches up his arm . ’
18	You are treating me as if I were another Rosette Fournier . ’
19	So I were ten stone three .
20	If I were ten years younger , my girl , I should come and carry you away myself . ’
21	The flight engineer and I were one-time apprentices at Trenchard 's , Halton , and he had left the Service at the end of his 12 years and returned when the war started .
22	I thought yours were same make .
23	Benny felt as if she were eight years of age again , instead of almost eighteen .
24	I 'm very lucky , ’ Susan repeated sternly , as though she were daring Breeze to disagree with her .
25	Settling back against the pillows , he drew her against him and , holding her as if she were egg-shell china , cradled her head on his chest .
26	She 's finally abandoned any fantasies that if she were five foot two and blonde , life as an actress might be easier .
27	She had no objection to working for her keep , but if Penry Vaughan went on treating her as if she were some kind of serf she 'd stick to plain , basic cooking from now on , she thought resentfully .
28	He released her , his fingers still loosely in the escaped strands of her hair , staring at her as blankly as if she were some phantom being from another incarnation , a mythical seductress beamed unexpectedly into the passenger seat of his car .
29	Kandinskaya watched her as if she were some lab specimen but eight months of training had taught Jezrael techniques that smoothed her responses to a minimum .
30	‘ If you must know , ’ Leith exploded , her anger turning to fury at the way he , with his ‘ two men at least ’ comment , had made it sound as though she were some tart , ‘ I had a bad experience in the last place I worked . ’

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