Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were to leave the job in 1995 or 1996 I would not want to leave behind a wrecked team because that 's not my style . |
| 2 | If I were writing the article today … |
| 3 | I think that it would be helpful if , at this point , I were to remind the House that we have made special provision for students in certain groups . |
| 4 | For instance , what it is for there to be a red rose in this darkened room is for it to be the case that if I were to turn the light on , I would make a certain observation , and if I were then to move to another place , I would make an observation rather different , and if you were to come in , you would observe such and such , and so on . |
| 5 | Yet you would have thought that you know , it was n't as if I were disrupting the class or anything . |
| 6 | Now I would not want to live in a country where my ex-wife and I were denied the right to another chance . ’ |
| 7 | The light , detached tones inside my head grow low and reluctant , as if I were switching the tape-recorder to a slower speed . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , it would be helpful if I were to explain the background to the Government 's overall policy on the financial support of full-time students . |
| 9 | When Moira and I were passing the bandstand , I touched his arm and said , Hello , Cam . |
| 10 | If the content of a putatively infallible belief is merely that things are looking that way to me now , there is clearly less room for error than if I were to risk the belief that that way is pink . |
| 11 | Says Catherine ‘ My flatmates and I were expecting the return of our £780 deposit when we were told the agency had gone bankrupt . |
| 12 | I were given the chance . |
| 13 | It is sometimes easier to proceed on the basis of : ‘ If I were doing the job this is how I would do it ’ , but this can be delusory even for analysts who have past experience as operators . |
| 14 | By this time Sandy and I were feeling the effects of our long day and by mutual agreement we made our way back to the ship . |
| 15 | Lee and I were feeling the tension . |
| 16 | It was a difficult case to argue , though , without sounding as if I were asking the Government to give in . |
| 17 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
| 18 | " Suppose I were to break the bones in my wings , and then fly to the top of the mountain and back . |
| 19 | Understand this , though — if I were to dispute the matter with you , I would win . |
| 20 | Well , if I were to run the car backwards for long enough then obviously that would do it . |
| 21 | Ma , Patrick and I were walking the dog |
| 22 | What I do not possess , however , is any suitable travelling clothes — that is to say , clothes in which I might be seen driving the car — unless I were to don the suit passed on by the young Lord Chalmers during the war , which despite being clearly too small for me , might be considered ideal in terms of tone . |
| 23 | Whatever , the cops eventually moved on and the Englishman and I were spared the task of explaining what such an unlikely pair of lads as ourselves were doing with such a gleaming trophy . |
| 24 | Even if someone were to leave the Department , or drop dead-even if you were to , what 's the expression , take out a contract on one of us ’ — he laughs to show that this is a joke , displaying a number of chipped and discoloured teeth , set in his gums at odd angles , like tombstones in a neglected churchyard — ‘ even then , I very much doubt whether we should get a replacement . |
| 25 | The world got clearer , as if someone were twiddling the focus of her retinae . |
| 26 | ‘ I was hating the analyst . ’ |
| 27 | The next day I was to take the train to Puno , yet another notorious journey . |
| 28 | If I locked my door at night , I was to take the key out , never leave the key in |
| 29 | He pointed out that although my title was an attractive one — since there was such a thing as a ‘ servile ’ society , namely a totalitarian one — the reader would assume that I was using the word liberal in the modern sense , which was certainly not my intention , He then went meticulously through my argument , and it almost pained me that he should take so much trouble over a work which I can not think it deserved . |
| 30 | I had to go upstairs to tell the woman above that I was using the bathroom , because if she walked about above , the plaster fell off . |