Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not your wife and if I were I would n't be suspicious anyway . |
| 2 | And the funerals were I would say , nearly always from the house . |
| 3 | By my judgement as the amendment reflects is that it is n't necessary but if it were I would have no hesitation s whatsoever in increasing the level of taxation to pay for what needs to be paid for . |
| 4 | Yeah I said to her if you look up what they were I 'll pay you for them and I 'll have them if you like he 's a real sweetheart he 's a good boy yeah Look what I bought today Tony . |
| 5 | ‘ Because if you were I might be tempted to retaliate , and you would n't like that . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not a betting man , Miss Mackenzie , but if I were I 'd put my shirt on your being able to do just that . |
| 7 | And if you were I 'd be so good to you you 'd stay . |
| 8 | There were I could n't see none . |
| 9 | Oh yeah , lots of stuff made for the Army and and and they did n't know , I mean the manufacturers s sent the work to the hosiery dye- yards they they did n't know what they were sending or what they got , they just churned it all out and and that was it you know it were I could a lot of things about that . |
| 10 | The one position I had trouble with was keeper , were I could n't find anyone as truly awful as the outfield players , so suggestions for the keeper are welcome . |
| 11 | The one position I had trouble with was keeper , were I could n't find anyone as truly awful as the outfield players , so suggestions for the keeper are welcome . |
| 12 | In 1972 I went off to university were I could find no handle on art history until I read Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists ? and discovered that research could replace airy-fairy ‘ lack of genius ’ answers with concrete ‘ lack of education ’ answers . |
| 13 | Oh no , no there was , erm it was very utilitarian , very er , were I should think plan would use the I , I do n't think er , I ca n't remember a great deal about utility furniture apart from the fact that we have just this one bedroom suite , but remembering back to the , er we had the bed and the chest , the chest was very plain and very nice , very nice |
| 14 | Wherever the Fawcetts were you would hear music . |
| 15 | If you were you would n't be here . ’ |
| 16 | If it were you would n't be hurting and breaking your heart over him . ’ |
| 17 | Erm , I 'm I 'm never sure about Bishops and Archbishops , erm I remember Archbishop Runcie once commenting about er , an activity that took place at the installation of a Bishop and it 's , I gather , I mean I 've , I have n't actually been to one , but if you 're Bishop or an Archbishop when they act to the triumph and act of installation took place there were you 'll find that the person was surrounded by Bishops and they were all sort of looking in on this er , this body that was gon na be installed and somebody once asked what are they doing ? |
| 18 | But even if you were you need n't expend any sympathy on my behalf — my tonsured condition is a matter of design rather than accident . |
| 19 | Yeah , but what I 'm saying is that , yeah , but what I 'm saying is when the parent comes to you and says well the primary school said they were you can say well well yes but by by our standards and our assessment when they arrived here |
| 20 | The Inspector who reported on that Litchfield city local plan said , go away , leave your Litchfield city plan and look at the options beyond the greenbelt , including erm the possibility of a new village , and I think that 's that 's the point here , instead of rolling back the greenbelt you should be looking beyond , you know , what is the general extent of the greenbelt to see what options are available , just coming on then to the size point , again that Mr Grantham raised , I have through erm experience both in the Cambridge situation which I referred to extensively erm in my statement , and in East Staffordshire where we are promoting a plan , er a site for a new village which is included in the deposited plan , we 've looked in both the Cambridge and the er East Staffordshire situation , bo at service provision , both from speaking to the providers of those services and whether or not they need a specific facility in the settlement , and from the developers point of view , that if you 've got a pot of money what can you afford to erm provide within a settlement of that size , and the conclusions we are rai er sort of reaching are a du a settlement of the order of twelve fifty dwellings can support your primary school , community centre , erm a range of shops , and so on and so forth , so what I 'm saying in my submission that the an appropriate size is in the thousand fifteen hundred mark , is that were you can get a reasonable co balance of community facilities and provide the relevant infrastructure in terms of services . |
| 21 | And there were you could see them all over British Railways . |
| 22 | If anyone knew how evil you were you 'd die . |
| 23 | There are few places in the world were you will not be understood if your conversation depends on words like hotel , dollar , passport , music , menu , steak , cinema or football . |
| 24 | Chances were she would react badly . |
| 25 | ‘ If she were she 'd have more sense and be able to tell the difference between a stuffed dummy and a real man . ’ |
| 26 | It was a high one , but although she was confident she could climb it , she knew that if she tried to do so she would risk being seen from the house ; but beside it was a shallow grassy ditch were she could remain out of sight , so bending double she ran along this ditch , and came to the spot where she had seen Tristram . |
| 27 | But what they were she could not quite put her finger on . |
| 28 | He could n't know how few people there were who might be expected to send her flowers . |
| 29 | A counsel was held lots were who should walk up to the master after supper that evening and ask for more , it fell Oliver Twist |
| 30 | The argument is not that the check is fallible , for if it were we might still hope that enough memories could be got to prop each other up , as Ayer suggests ( Ayer , 1954 ) . |