Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were to leave the job in 1995 or 1996 I would not want to leave behind a wrecked team because that 's not my style . |
| 2 | If I were writing the article today … |
| 3 | " A likely thing it would be if I were to give a drink of milk to every beggar who passed through ! " exclaimed the second brother . |
| 4 | I think that it would be helpful if , at this point , I were to remind the House that we have made special provision for students in certain groups . |
| 5 | For instance , what it is for there to be a red rose in this darkened room is for it to be the case that if I were to turn the light on , I would make a certain observation , and if I were then to move to another place , I would make an observation rather different , and if you were to come in , you would observe such and such , and so on . |
| 6 | And erm , if I were to stop every time I heard a car go by , I 'd be stopping all the time , erm , to some extent , it becomes a part of your pattern of existence . |
| 7 | If I were managing an act like Bros , I would run a professional fan club . |
| 8 | Yet you would have thought that you know , it was n't as if I were disrupting the class or anything . |
| 9 | Ah I think it 's when Martin and I were taking a top up on our mortgage the last time erm the building society suggested we took the policy out with you . |
| 10 | Now I would not want to live in a country where my ex-wife and I were denied the right to another chance . ’ |
| 11 | There is enough in evidence here to convince me that if I were to submit a checklist to Jimmy Moon the resulting guitar would be a very fine instrument indeed . |
| 12 | The light , detached tones inside my head grow low and reluctant , as if I were switching the tape-recorder to a slower speed . |
| 13 | Yet I know that if I were discussing a performance of , say , the ‘ Eroica ’ Symphony , I would come down like a ton of bricks on imprecise ensemble , where others would readily accept the fault if the interpretation was up to it ! |
| 14 | Nevertheless , it would be helpful if I were to explain the background to the Government 's overall policy on the financial support of full-time students . |
| 15 | … and if this sounds as though I were conducting a tutorial , then I make no apology . |
| 16 | When Moira and I were passing the bandstand , I touched his arm and said , Hello , Cam . |
| 17 | If the content of a putatively infallible belief is merely that things are looking that way to me now , there is clearly less room for error than if I were to risk the belief that that way is pink . |
| 18 | ‘ So if I were to screen a feature film for you , and in it there was a scene that took place with two characters talking on a sofa , you would be able to tell me whether there was an object lying behind it ? ’ |
| 19 | Says Catherine ‘ My flatmates and I were expecting the return of our £780 deposit when we were told the agency had gone bankrupt . |
| 20 | If I were to ask a school-teacher to choose for me a sample which she considered to be a fair cross-section of her pupils so that I could interview them for a survey , there would almost certainly be a personal bias in the sample given to me . |
| 21 | I had to go to court , to pay five bob , cos I were riding a bike without a light . |
| 22 | I were given the chance . |
| 23 | Paddy Ashdown and I were doing a walkabout in the main shopping precinct on the day after the election , when three small boys walked up to Paddy and asked , ‘ Ooh , are you David Rendel ? ’ |
| 24 | It is sometimes easier to proceed on the basis of : ‘ If I were doing the job this is how I would do it ’ , but this can be delusory even for analysts who have past experience as operators . |
| 25 | But , if I were to identify a trend , I would do so on a retailing analogy . |
| 26 | Lee and I were feeling the tension . |
| 27 | ‘ If I were painting a portrait of you , I 'd call it Rose by Firelight . ’ |
| 28 | Dominic and I were laughing a lot , because we were making up our own historical jokes in the style of 1066 and All That . |
| 29 | If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes . |
| 30 | I were making a cup of tea , I 'm chucking in a cup . |