Example sentences of "[pers pn] were take a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were taking an approved course of training ( see leaflet NI 125 from your Social Security office ) . |
| 2 | Mm I cer certainly think that 's that 's that 's one way of looking at it , but wh wha what about if if you were take a beautiful scene , the sky on Saturday evening was beautiful . |
| 3 | If we were to take a formal view of the entailments of such a declarative sentence ( like that , for example , expressed in Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 150f. ) , we would be obliged to accept as entailments a set of sentences which would include the following : |
| 4 | I suspect that if we were to take a sensate tension structure such as the love-hate paradox that lies at the heart of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet theme , we would be able to transpose it into different forms each appropriate to a particular culture , and , provided we had the necessary skill of course , we would be able to do this for all cultures in the world . |
| 5 | He ran his eyes down the column of figures as if he were taking a good look at Voluptua Whoopee in a no-piece swimsuit and whistled ‘ Dixie . ’ |
| 6 | At Oxford he had gained a First in Greats , for which , according to a contemporary , he had worked as if he were taking a chartered accountancy exam . |