Example sentences of "[pron] were [verb] that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And I were to guess that learning together is also a model of rich and diverse possibilities .
2 It was not a cause of poor economic performance ; it was yet another consequence of the attitudes which were shaping that performance .
3 She were born that way .
4 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 .
5 Well I knew where she were heading that night that day she came to our house .
6 Thirty five people who were killed that day and remember that on Yorkshire television it 's been established that there were and this is something you got ta over , people like you had got the ear of the Special Branch and murky people in the establishment of the
7 Cowley 's meeting with the Commissioner had been successful : CI5 were fully invested with the authority to both guard Stone 's family , and seek out the nature of the person or persons unknown who were harassing that family .
8 Autumn 1945 in Cardiff High School was a season of intensive preparation for a small group of us who were to make that attempt .
9 You were robbing that jeweller 's , in case you 'd forgotten . ’
10 If you were to ask that man what is more important under Heaven — his public achievements or the death of that person — his answer would not be the majority one , the public one , but the private and particular one .
11 If you were to let that iron cool , what form of iron would you actually have ?
12 You 'll not be surprised to find that in terms of national policy , I would have thought that was very clear if you were given that choice , what the policy should be .
13 I wonder if it 's one of those things that I mean she 's reading the story aloud , I wonder if you were reading that story as as well
14 ‘ Well , we certainly had them when you were cleaning that playbill of William as Lear at the Theatre Royal , Covent Garden … ’
15 But listening to you make that case it 's very similar to reading the great debate on franchise reform in this House in the last century , when people said we should be included and that people like us should be able to have the vote and put people into Parliament , it 's I mean it was just that you were you were making that plea about pro that the Board should be representative as being like the group who are benefiting .
16 Well la , last year , when you were doing that painting for er , Derek .
17 You were overwrought that night and after all , we do owe your life to Sarah . ’
18 I remember having a problem like that where we were erm we had a , a load of erm we were watering that material it was warmed , we thought of course would be alright but they did er , they were quite sensitive to it and they looked quite miserable .
19 The Minister must be aware that under the 1988 reform package we were assured that intervention stocks would disappear , but they are now at record levels , whether for skimmed milk , butter , beef or cereals .
20 In my day , we were instructed that frost never hurt a baby yet , and if the baby cried it must be mastered .
21 We were robbing that jeweller 's .
22 Bryan Gould , who resigned from the shadow cabinet over Maastricht in the autumn , said : ’ If we were to abandon that position now it would be a remarkable break not only with tradition but certainly with principle . ’
23 Ultimately we were given that assurance and er we were quite proud of the fact that , you know , the members had gone along with us on the proviso that we had got that principle you know , to establish .
24 There was a banality colouring all visual material reaching us from New York , and the way we were experiencing that banality through the mass-media was regarded as an essential aspect of it .
25 yeah but erm as I was saying , when we on science this morning we were watching that film about the vitamins
26 We were reminded that weather which suits ducks well enough can be more than cruel to other species when we found a dead bird on the path as we turned for home .
27 Well while we were doing that mummy was being all these clothes ready for her birthday .
28 And the announcement that we were having that visit .
29 We were working that month for the Queen 's Men at the theatre called The Curtain up in Shoreditch .
30 We were told that money would follow patients , but now patients have to follow money .
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