Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be helpful if I were to outline briefly the history of the STUCC and of the Government 's thinking on this matter . |
| 2 | I felt as if I were moving just a beat faster than everyone else . |
| 3 | If I were taking on a new act , their ability to perform on stage would be second only to the quality of their songwriting . |
| 4 | If I were to draw up a spec list of preferred bass amp facilities , the resulting layout would probably look similar to the Hartke 's : uncluttered and functional . |
| 5 | Actually , Cole was n't proposing donations to aid agencies as the ‘ solution ’ to mass starvation any more than Stuart Weir and I were doing so a few years ago . |
| 6 | I were weighing up the value of the frame |
| 7 | One evening in mid-April , Dr Jaffery and I were walking down the Chandni Chowk heading towards the doctor 's rooms in the Ghazi-ud-Din Medresse . |
| 8 | I was trundling out the obvious . ’ |
| 9 | Well I was looking out the other side cos I was trying to work out where Glynis lived . |
| 10 | Course , I was looking out the window and I know he took I picked it out and it I looked again , there 's another one in there , course she 's only getting out the bath put them in a bowl like I was ! |
| 11 | Instead I was looking down the quay to where a pathetically thin girl was walking beside a smartly dressed woman . |
| 12 | And then the whole thing swivelled round in my head , and I was looking down the same chimney from the top , and nothing was about to stop me falling down it . |
| 13 | I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional . |
| 14 | I was dragged down the hard , concrete steps on to the pavement . |
| 15 | For appearances ' sake I maintained the fiction that I was setting up an independent enterprise in the EFL field . |
| 16 | Every Saturday morning , while I was setting up the barrow , Mr Salmon used to disappear off to the Whitechapel synagogue leaving his wife to run the shop . |
| 17 | ‘ When I was setting up the Fine Chemicals Manufacturing Organization [ FCMO ] in the early '80s , there was no doubt quality was the main way to compete more effectivey and raise performance . |
| 18 | At the time I was mucking out the byre stalls , and piling the manure on top of my big heap when I saw the lights go on in the house . |
| 19 | There I was strolling down the scrubby end of the Kings Road , mooching along . |
| 20 | At one point in 1987 I was bowling up the M6 talking to a colleague in London on my ‘ hands-off ’ Cellnet phone — it had a microphone in front of me on the visor . |
| 21 | Dad said I should wait until it stopped snowing so hard , so I watched from the window , and before very long it did ease and I was sent down the cellar for the fuel . |
| 22 | The sun on my back was warm , but the February nights were still near zero and I was wearing only a sweater . |
| 23 | After landing on Kiwi soil , the Kerryman smiled : ‘ I thought I was seeing double the airport we touched down at was called Kerikeri ! ’ |
| 24 | Mine seem to vary — I was given both a biography of Nancy Reagan , a quite old hardback of TV critical reviews and articles by Clive James and Muriel Spark 's autobiography ( about her childhood in Edinburgh ) recently and have enjoyed them all in different ways . |
| 25 | I was given only the pau . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I was beaten up a lot by my aunt . |
| 27 | ‘ I was thinking maybe a Mafia don who 'd turned State 's Evidence against his Family . ’ |
| 28 | ’ I was thinking only the other day , ’ he went on , ’ that if I did n't have a wife and child to support I would throw in my resignation , take the voluntary redundancy on offer , sell the flat and go . |
| 29 | On that occasion , I was moving down a long , straight road with wide meadows on either side of me . |
| 30 | I was flying out the next day and they changed my flight to the night before and I missed it . |