Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LISTENING TO TONY FOSTER TALK about his territory — General chemicals — you could find yourself wondering how he and old Ludwig Mond would get on , were someone to introduce them across the gap of more than a century . |
| 2 | Related is the case with Sarastro 's stern announcement ‘ wenn ich dich ihren Händen liesse ’ ( ‘ [ you would be deprived of happiness ] were I to leave you in her hands ’ ) : here , as shown in ex.2f , Mozart underlines an emphatic crescendo to the climax of the phrase with the word ‘ staccato ’ ( in the left upper corner ) and decisive strokes in violins and basses . |
| 3 | I would not tell you , even were you to dismiss me for it . ’ |
| 4 | Were you to transfer it during your life than there are certain possible tax er consequences depending on how long you live , but it 's fairly rare for people to transfer substantial amounts during their life . |
| 5 | Erm I mean I 'm concerned again through his eyesight that i were we to put him as the assistant and put him on a machine , that he might just put his hand somewhere and get his hand bloody trapped or whatever with his eyesight . |
| 6 | You come to trial and you 've been accused of something , what were they accusing him of ? |
| 7 | there would be a practical advantage in uniting some official knowledge of their wants as well as your artistic skill , on the one hand , with my own claims , whatever they may be considered to be , on the other ; and were they to honour us by proposing a joint appointment , I can only say that I should feel much satisfaction in undertaking this great work in conjunction with a brother Architect for whom I have so great a respect as yourself … |
| 8 | I think that 's an implication of what they were accusing him of , but were they bringing him to trial for . |
| 9 | Why was they saying were they saying it to you then ? |
| 10 | To calculate its fictional arm 's length profits , a firm is supposed to assume it pays the same price ( the ‘ transfer price ’ ) for those imported bits that it would have done were it buying them from an unrelated company . |
| 11 | When Endill was old enough to know what they were he asked her about them . |
| 12 | It might well assist the devious Minister for the High Police were he to learn something of Bonaparte 's future plans , reception in Austria , any little weaknesses , indiscreet comments upon the situation back in France … |
| 13 | There was nothing to remind him of Eileen . |
| 14 | She justified her departure on the grounds that , with arrangements for Maurice 's funeral on Monday now in place , there was nothing to detain her at Swans ' Meadow . |
| 15 | Well there was nothing to stop him by now , there were two weights , there was the wardrobe sliding down the stairs and the man on top of it . |
| 16 | There was nothing to stop them for , and the brush-off had at least been done politely . |
| 17 | Erm and she was from the Pentiford area I think , erm oh quite a well educated girl , erm there was nothing to stop them from joining , I mean the London Fire Brigade there are , are fire fighters who are girls , erm and the er they do very well erm there are problems of course , with , with women on fire stations , but nevertheless there 's no reason why they should n't be there , providing they can do the job and I 'm sure those who read the papers and see the news know that in Russia and places like that , women do the , do the job very well . |
| 18 | In practice , there might be situations of doubt ; a man might claim that there was nothing to alert him to the girl 's age ( e.g. a 15-year-old girl , who looks much older , soliciting in a street with other prostitutes ) . |
| 19 | There was nothing to protect it save a company of disreputable rabble and a small strange looking nine-barrelled cannon . |
| 20 | There was nothing to tie him to the place now . |
| 21 | There was nothing to raise him from this unless world events should create the opportunity for him . |
| 22 | At least there was nothing to prevent me from enjoying a fantasy or two , now and then , while waiting . |
| 23 | I told my dad that was I chucked his in the bin and it had sort of stains on it and I told him that was |
| 24 | Right well what was I doing it for ? |
| 25 | But was that really her fault — or was I presenting her with an impossible task ? |
| 26 | Usually it was someone congratulating us on having won a free dancing lesson or test drive ; but there were quite a few grumpy wrong numbers , which made us feel at home . |
| 27 | What he needed was someone to get him by the scruff of the neck , tell him a few home truths and offer emotional stability . |
| 28 | With him , she felt none of the seething intoxication of love or lust or whatever it was which called her to Cameron . |
| 29 | The , the interviewer the other day said that she was somebody stopped her in Sandy Row , at the bottom of Sandy Row , |
| 30 | ‘ There was nobody to touch him on the pitch , ’ he said . |