Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been living in the city for three years and if I were to go to the estates now they would n't give me work . |
| 2 | The day after we first visited the castle , my sister and I were treated to a walk along the cliffs . |
| 3 | If I were to turn to a man on a bench |
| 4 | JC : Peter , do you remember that really worrying evening when you , Ben , William and I were invited to a dinner party by the Harewoods at Orme Square [ May 18,1953 ] ? |
| 5 | Sergei said Bernard has n't been in touch with Bailey for days , certainly not since C.W. and I were assigned to the case . ’ |
| 6 | We saw , we saw one or two others that were involved , that were involved in it , and er I were talking to the , one of the young producers that were there and er and I said if you 're short of some ac actors I said me and my mate will be actors you know , oh she said you 're dressed just right I 'll tell ya |
| 7 | ‘ You looked wonderful , ’ she said , as if she were speaking to a ten-year-old after a school play . |
| 8 | She held out her hand , palm upwards now , and moved her head slowly as she looked at Aggie as if she were talking to a friend who would understand that a cousin of hers had not married beneath her . |
| 9 | ‘ But if I tell you , ’ Harriet Shakespeare said , as though she were talking to an idiot , ‘ I 'm putting Liam 's life in worse danger . |
| 10 | She spoke as if she were admitting to a considerable lapse of manners on her part . |
| 11 | I was just gon na point out that if you were to refer to the approved key diagram , you can get a quite easily visual representation of what that embraces . |
| 12 | Dr Wise , you were called to the home of Mrs Rodriguez on the day of her death . |
| 13 | Ah right yes so let me see , you were the one who said that you were getting to the S P S S stage or something were you ? |
| 14 | He joked : ‘ In England , if you were sent to a rugby league match at Batley on a night you had to park your car on the touch line and leave the headlights on and hope the players would run into the beam of light so you could get a picture . |
| 15 | Wh where did you go to anyway when you when you were sent to the front ? |
| 16 | For example , to send data to the communications port ( serial port without the printer filter ) , you can open a file to : COM.0 and PRINT to it just as if you were PRINTing to a file . |
| 17 | Erm , I ca n't remember what happened at the end , if you were tempted to the barrel as well . |
| 18 | It 's like you were speaking to a foreigner you know a French person or something . |
| 19 | I , I said I was sp you were speaking to an expert er so we went off at a blind tangent . |
| 20 | and then you were inveigled to the R and D and then you inveigled to become a Vice Chair , and today you 've been handling the ceremony so well , we 've had to keep you in cotton wool to make sure that er , that you kept your health . |
| 21 | Chairman Judith Eyles said : ‘ You were responding to an acute emergency and had made considerable efforts to avoid driving . ’ |
| 22 | I also heard that you were selling to a surgeon from the hospital . ’ |
| 23 | It was fascinating to hear hir talk ; pretending first one minute you were talking to a girl , and then the next , a boy . |
| 24 | If you were talking to a prostitute on the beat , you 'd get booked for gossiping — for idling your time . |
| 25 | You mention the fact that er you were talking to a new manager or relatively new , erm had w was the trouble if you like in any way related to the appointment of this new manager ? |
| 26 | okay , okay So supposing , supposing I did an interview with you , the , the idea about the pub talk is I 'm trying to get you to use the language as if you were talking to a mate . |
| 27 | Oh you were talking to the cat ? |
| 28 | ‘ I thought you said you were going to the bridge ? ’ |
| 29 | And I mean you yourself , you know , during the Westland you you you left a cabinet meeting , apparently Mrs Thatcher thought you were going to the loo and you went on television to say , I 'm resigning because I think she 's got it wrong over Westland . |
| 30 | Ah yes , I ask you about those , erm cos we did say at one time that we thought some of you were going to the half yearly Council meeting and pick them up there . |