Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I do n't want you to give me your answers now , I am as it were giving you the opportunity now , over lunch , to consider this matter . |
| 32 | Playing the exact same solos every night on tour is good too , because the notes are firmly ingrained in your head and that makes it harder for you to mess up in a major way , which is something that could happen if you were winging it every night . |
| 33 | Even after five years they were finding it a bit difficult in Oxford , you see , a bit sticky . |
| 34 | He said , ‘ Angie … ’ and she stood aside to let him in , lost for words , then followed him to the kitchen , as if he were showing her the way . |
| 35 | Cos , they was telling us about the weave for the white people and they were showing us a booklet and the |
| 36 | He was singing I do n't know why I love you , but I do , and a holiday couple in shades of beige were making it a waltz of dance-class precision . |
| 37 | So even if somebody were to offer us a piece which they would n't I 'm sure , a piece of old medieval furniture , we would n't take it . |
| 38 | I have reason to believe that if I were to ask you the time you would n't be able to accommodate me . |
| 39 | I think the doctors were telling her the truth . ’ |
| 40 | and she were telling me the guy that runs it wo n't let them talk to the customers , said that was pig ignorant surely |
| 41 | But , there are ways of checking , yo you can you can , obviously compare words and then perhaps you can er invariably time about the situations and draw your own conclusions as to whether they were telling you a lie earlier on . |
| 42 | Paths were lost which the water had obliterated and silent highways were marked by great trees lying prostrate across the track . |
| 43 | But how would he react if she were to tell him the truth ? she wondered distantly . |
| 44 | How would he manage if someone were to hand him a cup of coffee , or to offer him a biscuit ? |
| 45 | But Lothar then extracted a further concession , " since he would not have , he said , in the share [ of the regnum ] they were offering him the wherewithal to make good to his own supporters that which they had lost . |
| 46 | Well that 's right , I mean were see what the weather 's like . |
| 47 | She was using it a week later when Nathan walked in through the kitchen door . |
| 48 | Lizzie had bought the kind of steak he liked and now he was cooking it the way he wanted . |
| 49 | Their successful defence , apart from moving their headquarters to a New Jersey hotel protected by a gang and three cannons , was to issue themselves a mountain of new shares ( which was illegal , but they bribed the judges ) . |
| 50 | Furthermore , he was keeping it a secret until the day he moved out . |
| 51 | Hitler no longer seemed to be speaking to convince ; rather , he seemed to feel that he was expressing what the audience , by now transformed into a single mass , expected of him . |
| 52 | It even took us into Cambridge a few times , but that was pushing it a bit — and once or twice we really had to . |
| 53 | The second time was pushing it a bit . ’ |
| 54 | on the way back it was pushing it a bit . |
| 55 | That place was costing me a fortune . |
| 56 | After my fourth or fifth lesson I was able to see that it was I who was causing myself the discomfort . |
| 57 | However one piece of equipment was causing him a problem — a ‘ survival bag ’ . |
| 58 | And again perhaps to follow up a previous question and the question is this , that in the first draft of the statement of faith which was presented two years ago , there was a very clear statement which said that Christ died for our sin in connection with the cross and I was wondering what the reasoning was which took away that very specific meaning of the death of the Christ into a much more general and ambiguous one in the statement before us today . |
| 59 | This paradox remained until early 1974 , when I was investigating what the behavior of matter in the vicinity of a black hole would be according to quantum mechanics . |
| 60 | But what they did to me was give me a metronome and a theme which you play in quicker and quicker note values : triplets , eighths , sixteenths , and so on . |