Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | eh he says , then I were transferred to another one , then from another one , to another one . |
| 2 | It happened in a flash , although in retrospect everything seemed to occur in slow motion , as though I were watching from another planet . |
| 3 | I were looking at that one |
| 4 | I apprehend however that it would be disappointing to you — I ca n't think why — if I were to stop at this point . |
| 5 | Besides , I would have to love him if … if I were to live like that . |
| 6 | I were thinking about that bungalow , and , well actually it 's as far from our road , nearly as far from our road to there , as what is it from bungalow window to road . |
| 7 | You see I were born in nineteen hundred so that means to say that when it 's nineteen ninety eight I 'll be ninety eight , I think they did that so I could er reckon me age up more easily . |
| 8 | I were born in forty seven . |
| 9 | I were born in forty seven |
| 10 | Since I was unprepared , lacking a condom , she and I were endangered from two directions in another sense also : from disease ( for we were strangers to each other ) , and from a pregnancy desired by neither of us . |
| 11 | Gastric juice ammonium concentration , antral histology , and serum concentrations of gastrin and pepsinogen I were examined in nine H pylori positive and nine H pylori negative uraemic patients . |
| 12 | Certainly my bank manager would take a dim view if I were to indulge in widespread massive discounting — margins are not that generous to begin with ! |
| 13 | Phil and I were getting in two stories a week . |
| 14 | It was as if I were surrounded by snarling dogs held back by chains . |
| 15 | I were going through one of them a week ! |
| 16 | Barbara and I were interviewed by one team upstairs in the top bar . |
| 17 | Five minutes later Tony and I were trudging through deep snow , wishing we had spared the time to search out the snow shoes and wondering whether there had ever been a previous occasion in Iceland when the approach of a car had been heralded by walkers . |
| 18 | John was careful , but as a singer I felt with him as I were standing on one leg after my time with Walter . |
| 19 | Anyway I were , I were talking to that lady and er she were on about you , and she says about putting your name |
| 20 | Yeah , the sort of thing Lucy and I were talking about earlier is , it was just before I went on holiday so my memory is kind of hazy , it 's one where I was going to see the Arts Council and see if they were interested in the idea if they work |
| 21 | We we we also Sally and I were talking about this last week , we said often you know you get you can get bankrupt stock |
| 22 | Suppose you and I were playing against each other , and suppose we both knew that the number of rounds in the game was to be exactly 100 . |
| 23 | That is ‘ No comment ’ , but it 's ‘ No comment ’ done in such a way that it is implying intelligence on the part of the audience , saying , ‘ Well , you realize , of course , that if I were to comment on this , you know , it would prejudice either the chances of the prisoner if we catch him or , you know , any possible clues and so on . ’ |
| 24 | Holmes and I were sitting on either side of a bright fire in our sitting room in Baker Street . |
| 25 | My feet almost disappeared in it ; it looked as if I were paddling in muddy water . |
| 26 | Do you know what she said last night , after I 'd told her what Dieter and I were planning for next week ? |
| 27 | I was destined for great things — Oxford or Cambridge , a string of letters after my name , a successful academic career , and would no doubt end up being the first woman Prime Minister . |
| 28 | I was led into all these commitments in a very friendly and deferential spirit , and in a similar spirit of friendship and hospitality I was invited to numerous social engagements , from impressive lunch in honour of the Minister of Education to an invitation to a private home in Jaipur , where my kind host and hostess had gone to the trouble of preparing sandwiches , cake , chips ( without the fish ) and pudding , in case I should not like the Indian dishes served for the other guests ! |
| 29 | I was invited by two revolutionary movements , the Black Panthers and the Palestinians … . these two groups have a very strong erotic charge . |
| 30 | I then went on to an Orion double bed , followed by a pink Passap ; I still wanted a single bed for speed — we ran a guest house and I was deprived of all knitting during the summer months . |