Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew that he was not going to be happy if he were deprived of the chance to study . |
| 2 | Or rather , as Clive would look if he were to live to the age of one hundred and fifty and then die . |
| 3 | ‘ So if he were poisoned by the entrée , he did n't display any symptoms for over an hour . |
| 4 | The bottom line is that whilst Wilko has made decisions which have upset , even annoyed us , if he were to leave for the England job there is no-one remotely capable of replacing him . |
| 5 | Jim spoke as if he were telephoning from a golf club instead of a cuckold 's bed . |
| 6 | His swollen upper lip felt enormous and stiff , as though he were recovering from a dental injection . |
| 7 | ‘ Only that he were hiding in the garden . ’ |
| 8 | The story went around that once , when he was seriously ill , he was advised by his doctors that it would improve his chances of survival if he were to sleep with a woman . |
| 9 | If he were to conform to the strict rules of etiquette and combat guiding the danseurs nobles of the French opera-ballets , he would not demean himself by seizing the nearest thing at hand , the rudder from his boat , to put his adversary to flight . |
| 10 | And what if Martin does n't have any children ; or , say , if he were to die in the war and you survived , what then … |
| 11 | But the paper was so damp that his pen merely furrowed it , as if he were writing on a slab of butter . |
| 12 | Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness . |
| 13 | Bedraggled , barefoot , dressed in dirty white ducks , he looked as though he were hovering on the verge of death . |
| 14 | Ruth wanted to reach out and pull him back , as if he were moving towards a precipice . |
| 15 | Soering applied to the European Commission of Human Rights on the grounds that there was a serious likelihood that if he were extradited to the United States he would be executed . |
| 16 | He felt half excited , half afraid , as though he were delving into a hidden world ; a world which preferred to remain undiscovered ; which might go to any lengths to protect its secrets . |
| 17 | If he were to go to the doctor and ask about it , he might find out — ‘ Mind yer backs ! |
| 18 | He affirms once again his belief that " our period is one of decline " but then mutters his exequies in a curiously dispassionate manner , as if he were engaged in an intellectual exercise of no particular consequence . |
| 19 | His tone had been matter-of-fact , as if he were reporting to a committee . |
| 20 | The Court of Appeal was satisfied that the following matters were among those to which attention should be paid : 1 The nature of the employment Employment in a capacity where " confidential " material is habitually handled may impose a high obligation of confidentiality because the employee can be expected to realise its sensitive nature to a greater extent than if he were employed in a capacity where such material reaches him only occasionally or incidentally . |
| 21 | Russell 's eyes followed her every move as if he were looking through the sight of a gun . |
| 22 | Do you know , I went in there right and the majority of people never took no blind bit of notice then suddenly one person walked through the door , you know , he 's always playing next to me and he sits down , puts his trumpet there , gets his trumpet on ya , sits there , turns round and the next thing he were laying on the floor going |
| 23 | And now Martha and he were united in a strange fellow feeling , which neither of them had expected , and which they had to shake off with difficulty . |
| 24 | Burrs of hair were scattered on his scalp ; they were the same muted colour as his skin , as though he were compounded of the dust he played in . |
| 25 | ‘ I am the Conservatives ’ Jeremy Irons , ’ he murmured as apologetically as if he were standing at the rostrum with a brand new Oscar . |
| 26 | Outside , Goldman was looking down at Schmidt as if he were standing on a cliff 's edge and peering at the drop . |
| 27 | His agitation was plain as he rubbed the palm of one beefy hand against the back of the other , as if he were suffering from a skin irritation . |
| 28 | He were working for an erm Macro or something . |
| 29 | She sat up very straight on the side of the bed and continued to address him as if he were sitting on a mat in the Top Infants , wrestling with difficult , dangerous new concepts like add-ups and take-aways and the precise whereabouts of Australia . |
| 30 | He suspected that if he were to walk into the newsroom and make an arrest there would be only a momentary gasp before someone was out with the first of a new crop of jokes . |