Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | D' ya know , I got weighed on my scales other day , and I thought , I were eleven stone again . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? " |
| 7 | ‘ How I wish that I were that dog ! ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | People milled past , skirting me as though I were bad luck . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | as if I were some Arab with five gold watches up his arm . ’ |
| 13 | You are treating me as if I were another Rosette Fournier . ’ |
| 14 | So I were ten stone three . |
| 15 | I thought yours were same make . |
| 16 | I 'm very lucky , ’ Susan repeated sternly , as though she were daring Breeze to disagree with her . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She 's finally abandoned any fantasies that if she were five foot two and blonde , life as an actress might be easier . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | I knew her for months before she admitted , in a low voice , what her job was — as if she were some sort of traitor to society . |
| 24 | After soaping her every nook and cranny , he rinsed her , and kissed her body reverently as if she were some deity to be worshipped and adored . |
| 25 | He could n't be sure she would have the heart to go on running racehorses if she were forced to believe Harry a murderer … if she thought he had left her without warning , without a note , if she were worried sick by not knowing where he 'd gone , and was also haunted by the thought of Harry with Angela Brickell . ’ |
| 26 | She stood there and stared at herself , seeing herself from that unexpected angle , as though she were another person , as though she were a dim white and blue statue on a tall pillar , a wet statue , a statue in water , a Venus rising from the sea , with veined white marble globes for breasts . |
| 27 | And , he used to lean over bloody fence while she were digging garden and she were pregnant . |
| 28 | Miranda had remained quietly on the stool looking at her fat knees , as if she were happy doing so , until one of the shopgirls in costume jewellery leaned over the counter and said , through scarlet lips , ‘ Where 's your mummy gone to then ? ’ |
| 29 | One thing baffles me about that , Lord Wilson : you were Prime Minister , you were the boss , you were presiding over Cabinet government . |
| 30 | Some screws were more lenient than others and you learned when you saw who came round to wake you up how much you had to hurry — whether it was one who 'd put you on report if you were one minute late or if they would give you five minutes ' grace . |