Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not as though I were writing a new book , ’ Elinor said crossly . |
| 2 | " 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 . |
| 3 | This way I can knit the cuff and go straight on to the sleeve rather than gather the sleeve on to the cuff at a later stage , as would be necessary if I were using a 2x1 cuff . |
| 4 | If I were wearing a next-to-nothing nightie and he was sitting on my bed , I 'd be having serious trouble breathing too ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | … and if this sounds as though I were conducting a tutorial , then I make no apology . |
| 9 | Erm and , and very enjoyable days they were , but erm I think if I were to plan a big party , or an anniversary or something like that , and I 'd hope those would be jolly enjoyable days too . |
| 10 | If I were to use a fine grained canvas the paint would become thick and unworkable . |
| 11 | It 's the sort of ’ You stupid boy , stop trying to drown yourself ’ speech I can imagine I would deliver if I were dragging a recalcitrant lad back to land . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I had to go to court , to pay five bob , cos I were riding a bike without a light . |
| 15 | 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 ? ’ |
| 16 | But , if I were to identify a trend , I would do so on a retailing analogy . |
| 17 | ‘ If I were painting a portrait of you , I 'd call it Rose by Firelight . ’ |
| 18 | Dominic and I were laughing a lot , because we were making up our own historical jokes in the style of 1066 and All That . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I were making a cup of tea , I 'm chucking in a cup . |
| 21 | If I were carrying a baby , do n't you think it would be my first priority ! ’ |
| 22 | If I were interviewing a new act , I would try to ascertain their sheer punishment factor . |
| 23 | One year , when my wife Ann and I were leading a party of friends into the hills , we decided to split up . |
| 24 | ‘ If I were to have a child . |
| 25 | In 1968 my husband James Haynes-Dixon and I were offered a lease of Lamb House for seven years . |
| 26 | I would not want to change even if I were offered a British-sounding voice . |
| 27 | If I were planning a home visit to see someone I did n't already know , I 'd go with another colleague . ’ |
| 28 | I feel exactly as if I were having a very prolonged dream but every time I come out of it I 'm so tired I fall back into it again . |
| 29 | There was this rather famous instance where he had to scrub the floor while Pamela and I were having a long and involved discussion , but I was told that people could n't take their eyes off him . |
| 30 | Years later this lady of character was to write a rather moving piece entitled ‘ The Love Song of T. S. Eliot ’ secretary ( Confrontation , Long Island University , Winter 1975 ) ; and from what Eliot said once , though half-jocularly , when he and his wife and I were having a meal together , there was more than one secretary who could have composed such a Love Song , or at least who had the necessarily incentive or excuse , I vaguely recall the lady as of ample build and very cheerful , so she was able to put good face on her sad plight . |