Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If I were to take this gun and shoot … who ? |
2 | I were gon na report it today then I got talking with gaffer I were sorting this job out |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | I had a phone call , and you know that place I were going this afternoon ? |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Later I was to see this body investigating a syllabus elsewhere . |
10 | 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 ? |
11 | J.B. I was wearing this jumper . |
12 | erm the minor awards or discretionary awards as they became and that 's erm , I was given this job and er that 's how it 's built up really over the years . |
13 | ‘ I was struggling this morning because there is a frightfully long speech it becomes a feat of memory and if memory was the only element involved in acting then Leslie Welch the memory man would have been the greatest actor in the world . |
14 | ‘ I was reading this book the other day . |
15 | It 's quite a good subject though — I mean , I was reading this serial in my Mum 's Woman 's Own , all about this governess and this French Comte who was . |
16 | I was reading this article in a Playboy Magazine round at my boyfriend 's place , or was it Penthouse , anyway , I seem to be spending quite a lot o' time round at my boyfriend 's reading magazines and here it says how these several top U.S. psychiatrists had done this survey on how your emotions can sabotage your sexlife even if you are a man and here it blamed the sexually aggressive female of the seventies for the sexual recession of the eighties . |
17 | I felt ashamed because I was enjoying this sensation . |
18 | Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever . |
19 | Four years later , in 1962 , Brian Jackson ( who died while I was writing this book ) and Dennis Marsden added their persuasive voices to the growing chorus of those who were aware of the weaknesses rather than the strengths of the grammar school . |
20 | The ultimate warning over ouija comes from a high-ranking chaos magician who knew I was writing this book . |
21 | Just as I was writing this book I received a beautiful card from Sue Fuller whom I had met at the Town and Country Festival last year . |
22 | I would like to thank the following women for their support and encouragement as I was writing this piece : Anne Collins , Linda Stepulvage , Tricia Darragh and Lisa Hunt . |
23 | ‘ I was waving this wrench in front of her face , ’ 61-year-old Jean says . |
24 | 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 ? |
25 | ‘ Of course the poetry 's no good , ’ grumbled a friend to whom I was praising this volume . |
26 | And I was asked this week if it is possible to make up your own , rather than buy one of these metal affairs on wheels . |
27 | Although I was still barely into my teens when I was spending this time with Maureen tending sick birds , I learned a lot about general care and identification — even if we failed to spot our Russian defector . |
28 | Yeah , rich colour I was having this year very well . |
29 | that 's right discussed why I was asking this question , thought there might be a |
30 | As I was giving this description it came to me that I was talking about someone else . |