Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If I were to take this gun and shoot … who ? |
2 | If I were to choose any country in the world to live as a family in it would have to be somewhere different , perhaps exotic . |
3 | When I left at two o'clock , Tally and I were addressing each other by first names ( ‘ Elliot ’ was strange to him and we settled for ‘ Ellix ’ ) and I was able to address the two waitresses by their first names without feeling uncomfortable . |
4 | I were gon na report it today then I got talking with gaffer I were sorting this job out |
5 | I were telling you about Irene , I were filling this thing in and I put right , sixty four I were gon na put sixty four , that were it . |
6 | And I were to guess that learning together is also a model of rich and diverse possibilities . |
7 | DENNING J. stated the facts and continued : If I were to consider this matter without regard to recent developments in the law , there is no doubt that , had the plaintiffs claimed it , they would have been entitled to recover ground rent at the rate of £2,500 a year from the beginning of the term , since the lease under which it was payable was a lease under seal which , according to the old common law , could not be varied by an agreement by parol ( whether in writing or not ) , but only by deed . |
8 | I had a phone call , and you know that place I were going this afternoon ? |
9 | If I were to rewrite this book in ten years ' time , in the light of further research and experience , my own views might well have changed somewhat . |
10 | It was five-thirty in the morning , and when I finally got to sleep I was hating those birds . |
11 | Stockholm-based DJ Dr Alban — who has shot to No 4 with It 's My Life admits : ‘ I was drilling this guy 's tooth when all of a sudden blood started spurting everywhere . |
12 | Cos I was using that issue at that time , but we always make the proviso that if things change , you may have to alter your mind about where your money 's placed . |
13 | Then he said , ‘ If I was to advertise this job how likely would you be to apply for it ? ’ , and suddenly the hairs prickled on the back of my neck , because I knew he was serious . |
14 | ‘ I was eating some gnocchi with this Italian — I did n't say nookey . ’ |
15 | I was watching that film and thinking of her . |
16 | ‘ I was watching that nun talking to you — it seems to have given you quite a turn . ’ |
17 | Yeah , well when I was typing that bit — I actually said originally except Lorimer . |
18 | As I was typing these words , a young friend phoned to tell me about the wonderful summer holiday he had just had with his father . |
19 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
20 | Later I was to see this body investigating a syllabus elsewhere . |
21 | I was fired some years after the War after an altercation with Hymie . |
22 | I was counting these pages last night and gave up at forty-two . |
23 | I was drawing these pictures in my head of walking across a tightrope and falling into a chasm . |
24 | And I was reaching some conclusions about the choice that Gharr had given me . |
25 | You know , you 're sort of turning the abortion argument on it 's head , that er in an abortion you can say it 's my body , I have a right to decide , and this baby that dies is never going to be there to question that decision , but in this type of situation the baby 's going to be there and okay , you 'll get so many who will just accept their situation and wo n't question it , but you 're always going to get some , or even one who will say I want to know my origins , I want to why I was conceived this way , why I was born this way , why , I have two mothers , that maybe a surrogate mother and a natural mother ? |
26 | I did over Christmas , I did some Carlton and Alfy down there no , no that 's where I met , I had a Christmas holiday job , couple of days worked for him , I was lugging these vices up |
27 | I 'd be concerned as to whether I was wearing more layers of clothing than the other women , and whether anyone had noticed . |
28 | J.B. I was wearing this jumper . |
29 | ‘ If I thought I was causing any pain to the fish I would n't go fishing and I think all anglers feel that way , ’ he says . |
30 | ‘ The last time I went to see a specialist about my knee , I was ready to pack it in if he 'd told me I was facing another year out . |