Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How would you like it if I were to let you know where you could stop the Wete Mo Nan Dlo , the biggest ceremony this year ? |
| 2 | The fumes from the beer that had once been stored in the barrel were making him feel rather sick . |
| 3 | ‘ The state of my health and my voice last year were making me think seriously of my pension , ’ he said . |
| 4 | It was all overdone , like the decorations in the ward , but even while I was having a superior little mental scoff , they were making me feel obscurely uneasy and near to tears . |
| 5 | They needed the captain back on the rails immediately , and they knew the best way to do this was let him simmer down for 24 hours . |
| 6 | My friends said she 's trouble and the last thing I should have done was let her move in and I was a bloody fool not to believe them . |
| 7 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 8 | Charles was to play tennis with Ann and she was to let him know when she was feeling upset . |
| 9 | Yes I know , you can get somebody else to do that , be there for months and they do n't turn up at once , that was erm , I did n't realize they had to turn up at once , so I was letting them throw whenever they wanted |
| 10 | I suppose she meant if she put me on the Pill she was letting me sleep around . |
| 11 | It seemed he had just given up and was letting her go graciously and tenderly . |
| 12 | But maybe JTR was making me look further into that familiar landscape … |
| 13 | He quite liked the feeling it gave him , but he did n't know if it was it or the drink was making him feel rather dizzy . |
| 14 | The two control sample carers ( Mrs Mitchell 's daughter and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew ) were both still quite definite about wanting to see their relative in institutional care ; Mrs Mitchell 's daughter said that she was becoming more and more anxious about her mother being at risk at home ; and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew saying that she was more than ever in need of care , and the strain upon him of having to cope with her difficult personality was making him wish even more acutely for institutional care . |
| 15 | Another thing I found out today was do we know where our m main supplier of our coffee is ? |
| 16 | And then was did they come back for tea at the house ? |
| 17 | All Joanne said was did you catch up with Wayne were n't it ? |
| 18 | Oh I wondered where he was did you get home early ? |
| 19 | Thus , the recession made carpet purchasing a lower priority matter for those who already had carpets and the attitude was to make them last longer . |
| 20 | Her first impulse was to make him turn back , then common sense prevailed . |