Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mugs would n't know how to treat me straight if I were a twelve-inch ruler . ’ |
| 2 | I was so impressed with this program , I only wish I were a gardening enthusiast , so I could put root directory through it paces . |
| 3 | The only thing that I noticed which would annoy me if I were a glider pilot was that , engine off , the propeller does have a habit of rotating slightly . |
| 4 | ‘ You could say that a great many English women are still metaphorically wearing the yashmak , ’ she said now , speaking with a kind of didactic , impersonal severity , as if I were a studio audience . |
| 5 | The other actors , who were now gathered around Terry 's table with jars of yellow beer in front of them , had turned their chairs around to watch me , as if I were a football match . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm tired of men who look at me as if I were a fillet steak , that 's all . ’ |
| 7 | She really talked as if I were a woman friend of her own age , her confidante . |
| 8 | Certainly , if I were a script writer , and I had to think up the most inappropriate name for a girl dressed as a man , the above tendencies would lead me to choose a monosyllabic form , using a closed syllable , ending in a consonant as far away from a continuant as I can find — a plosive — and with a vowel as far away from /i/ as I can find , such as /a/ or /o/ . |
| 9 | Er I was a field intelligence officer . |
| 10 | I was a computer engineer , though normally I tell journalists I was a gravedigger . ’ |
| 11 | Yes , I was a crane driver then . |
| 12 | Well I was a crane driver from nineteen thirty two till I went stevedoring , what time would that be , oh about nineteen fifty five I reckon . |
| 13 | I mean I know in my time when I was a crane driver if they , if one of them did n't turn up dow down at Cliff Quay they 'd come along to a crane driver and they 'd say , take a rope for us will you . |
| 14 | I was a video game addict . |
| 15 | I was a relief manager , sent around the Gaumont circuit . |
| 16 | Families were breaking down when I was a probation officer in King 's Cross , but then I could get these kids rent money for private accommodation up front . |
| 17 | When I was a boy Barn Owls were very common here , but the pesticide DDT killed them off . |
| 18 | I hold my hands over the cooker like I was a boy scout crouched over a camp-fire . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's interesting , because I was a history teacher . |
| 20 | ‘ Anyway , I have reason to believe that she told her young man I was a history teacher in a modest direct grant school . |
| 21 | I was a rotor man for Bridge Depot . |
| 22 | From then on , I was a centre half . |
| 23 | On our first meeting he thought I was a removal man working for Frank and Salome who had gone on to higher things ( mainly higher rates , mortgage repayments , so fourth , so fifth ) . |
| 24 | When I was a TV newscaster , I was enjoying my new-found fame , and signing some autographs up in Manchester , when an old lady said , ‘ Who 's he ? ’ 'He reads the news , ’ someone told her . |
| 25 | ‘ I was a mathematics don at Cambridge living a rather sheltered life , but I was part of a group that enjoyed playing cards . |
| 26 | Of course I had this spell er er do n't forget I was five years as a prisoner of war , and a lot of interest because I was a union member pra b previous to that you see ? |
| 27 | When I was a union official , most — if not most , a good part — of the serious or fatal accidents that occurred at my pit involved men who were working excessive hours . |
| 28 | I was a union representative for 14 years , and I know a lot about the industry and how important the legislation to protect the hours of working is to miners . |
| 29 | But anyway , the railways there was a spurt on between in the late sixties on the railway and that 's when I think I was sure , not only because I was a branch secretary at the time but I 'm sure that all the British Railways there was a greater awareness of the fact that we had been deceived by the word nationalization . |
| 30 | ‘ I was a university lecturer at one time . |