Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , for example , the lecture I 'm going to give you today is n't reflected at all in Arnold erm so er I think it 'd be helpful if I were to give you some indication of when there were and when there were n't . |
| 2 | My mother does n't cook very much food , and if I were to cook my own she would see that as greed and put a stop to it . |
| 3 | If I were to approach my sixth criterion I needed to find someone who knew their way round an oscilloscope , and it was n't until the mid-1980s that a bright , if somewhat cranky , scuba-diving enthusiast arrived on campus to do a PhD . |
| 4 | ‘ What would you think if I were to bring someone new into the family ? ’ |
| 5 | Connors had kept very quiet for Connors , while Kress and I were having our little friendly talk . |
| 6 | Well I got word from Street that er I was to take my full month you see . |
| 7 | Well I was looking her front door 's not locking . |
| 8 | Once or twice I started swinging very badly , but as I was using my only hand to stop myself bleeding to death , I was unable to do anything about it . |
| 9 | ’ I heard little else because now I was shouting my own piece about Christianity . |
| 10 | Well I know that my , if I was to name my busiest member of staff , it 's the person that took on that |
| 11 | I was watching you all the time you were out there , so you were perfectly safe . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The first time it was shown on television , I was watching my own performance and seeing how far it was from what I had conceived . |
| 13 | In years to come I was to appreciate his inflexible will , his intense patience , his courage , his horror of cruelty , his dedication to his country and his deep religious faith . |
| 14 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 15 | I was seeing his pock-marked face through a red film of chlorine irritation . |
| 16 | ‘ I was picturing her face when I said I was seeing you this evening . ’ |
| 17 | I was creating my own mythology . ’ |
| 18 | I was feeding him some biscuits and then went to kick a ball . |
| 19 | I was work la last week and I erm I got ta scrub my nails after done everything anyway like every , like after I made the sandwiches , I scrub my nails after I 've been washing up , scrub my nails so I was scrubbing them all day Saturday , last week and it still did n't come out . |
| 20 | What , it does Ma , ma just killed a man , I was given him some |
| 21 | They have a very special significance , and how I wish I had known how to press flowers when I was given my first red roses by my husband , but unfortunately I learnt a few years too late ! |
| 22 | Schoolgirl fantasies were fulfilled when I was given my own dressing room and bathrobe . |
| 23 | I was thinking it another room bigger . |
| 24 | Telling us all how we would have to adapt in various minor ways to changing circumstances , but that basically our lives would carry on very much as normal — and it was weird , I was wanting them all to believe him , and him to be telling the truth . |
| 25 | ‘ They became the rage and I was delivering them all day in the Rolls , ’ said Crawford . |
| 26 | " Aye , I was givin' 'er some hay . |
| 27 | Naturally I was disappointed that the most notable name of which we could boast had to be excluded : and although I knew that he disliked re-reading his prose works , I was as sorry that he felt the essay to be below standard as I was to regret his later repudiation of After Strange Gods . |
| 28 | Being something of a closet linguist , I was teaching myself some Arabic in my spare time . |
| 29 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 30 | I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . " |