Example sentences of "i were [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago . |
| 2 | I were real rubbish at school . |
| 3 | D' ya know , I got weighed on my scales other day , and I thought , I were eleven stone again . |
| 4 | Malc and I were all part of the same gang when we were 14 , sort of ‘ paired off ’ when we were 15 , and started putting our biology theory into practice at 16 . |
| 5 | As neither he nor I were long-term government servants , we were rather more critical of policies and decisions , and did our best to see that reasonable criticism was reasonably answered . |
| 6 | If a human observer sets out to interpret the " emotions " of a rat what else can he do except say of himself : " Now if I were that rat , how should I feel ? " |
| 7 | ‘ How I wish that I were that dog ! ’ |
| 8 | Terry and I were worst hit and for a couple of days I was left off the chain so that I could use the toilet whenever I needed . |
| 9 | People milled past , skirting me as though I were bad luck . |
| 10 | so he said I said I do n't have to tell you where I were last night David , I were out , so I said even if I were in it 's none of your concern I said what I do in my private time is up to me , he said well why was n't you there ? |
| 11 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
| 12 | as if I were some Arab with five gold watches up his arm . ’ |
| 13 | You are treating me as if I were another Rosette Fournier . ’ |
| 14 | So I were ten stone three . |