Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Derek Davy and I were trying to solve this one for a book which eventually appeared as Advanced Conversational English , it proved to be an expensive and time-consuming , but eminently worthwhile task . |
| 2 | If I were to begin to manage another major artist , and Mark Knopfler were to ring up and ask me to get the band back together for an album and a world tour , something would have to suffer . |
| 3 | I was going out later and Sophie and I were going to spend some time on the beach with the two girls . |
| 4 | ‘ If I were going to use this now … ’ |
| 5 | and I were used to do that sort of work , and er |
| 6 | I was invited to observe healing sessions taking place in the College of Psychic Studies in South Kensington . |
| 7 | I was invited to write this article before the election , around the proposition that the policy differences between the parties were so narrow that it did not really matter who won — a political worldweariness with which I sharply disagreed . |
| 8 | I was invited to chair one session last week . |
| 9 | I first saw her when I was called to see one of Mrs Ainsworth 's dogs , and I looked in some surprise at the furry black creature sitting before the fire . |
| 10 | I was bound to get pregnant , but after the first few times , when I was really scared I thought " I 'll be lucky . " |
| 11 | I was tempted to make some sardonic inquiry about how Mala could sound like she was defending Gharr , when he had so obviously been the one how had tried to kill me on Vadinamia . |
| 12 | That 's why I was tempted to have those Staybrite windows cos it repels all that . |
| 13 | It was n't that I was tempted to eat those convenient nuts , just the very fact of their existence . |
| 14 | ‘ As far as I 'm concerned I was elected to represent all of the people of Belfast . |
| 15 | I was flattered to hear this . |
| 16 | When I had finished , I was made to wait two hours before being called back into the office for questioning . |
| 17 | I was made to feel that wanting to have it openly discussed was just exhibitionist boat-rocking . |
| 18 | Gradually , I was made to feel unpopular and I applied these new standards to him . |
| 19 | I think I was born to do that kind of thing , it 's terrible . |
| 20 | I was given to believe that would have been in the flat also we thought that st was going to be in there possibly a wife and it was n't said whether there were any children . |
| 21 | You might say I was learning to fly free , just like Dawn . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , I suppose it was on the floor somewhere , in a pub where I was tryin' to sell some violets to save meself from real starvation . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , I was hoping to do some digging , ’ said the Prince , ‘ but it 's so hard that I ca n't get the spade in . |
| 24 | ‘ I was hoping to do some digging , ’ he told Harold Haywood , secretary of the Prince 's Trust one Friday evening . |
| 25 | I was hoping to miss that one , because you might be trying to persuade me that I should erm , partake rather more of healthier food , than of the unhealthy food that I do eat . |
| 26 | At Codsall I was hoping to link this to the achievement of a balance of teaching methods … |
| 27 | I did it partly for aesthetic reasons ; partly to economize on the number of genes necessary ( if genes did n't exert mirror-image effects on the two sides of the tree , we 'd need separate genes for the left and the right sides ) ; and partly because I was hoping to evolve animal-like shapes , and most animal bodies are pretty symmetrical . |
| 28 | ‘ I came back because I was hoping to get some England recognition and thought my chances would improve , especially under a manager whom I loved working with at Sheffield Wednesday , ’ the player admitted . |
| 29 | ‘ I came back because I was hoping to get some England recognition and thought my chances would improve , especially under a manager whom I loved working with at Sheffield Wednesday , ’ the player admitted . |
| 30 | Well I was going to but I was I was hoping to get some news on er summer cruise cos I 'm gon na do a whole sales department down in swops and changes first |