Example sentences of "[was/were] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the news did become public , colleagues who had avoided speaking to me when the going got tough reappeared and said how sorry they were that I was leaving . |
| 2 | Most of the Labour front bench , including Neil Kinnock , were in their places and the predictions were that I was in for a stormy time . |
| 3 | But when I did so , the words I uttered for the record were that I could not accept that the proper constitutional practices , as I understood them , were being observed . |
| 4 | The implications were that I had no physical characteristics of my own , but that in the same way as I ‘ had ’ my father 's nose , or my grandmother 's eyes , I somehow inhabited a body which was not mine but a replica of my mother 's , and over which , therefore , I had no control . |
| 5 | And my instructions were that I I used to either let them have two thirds of that or a half , you see ? |
| 6 | The only problems encountered were that I tended to catch my chin on the high foam on the front and shoulder elastic was slightly against skin . |
| 7 | But he seemed to think because you 'd had your stroke almost a year ago that I should be over it ; his exact words were that I was looking for sympathy . |
| 8 | There were one or two that were that I think were a little bit careless and did n't quite get the construction correct for them . |
| 9 | Therefore , next time they spawned I left the eggs where they were until I had a new tank prepared for the adults . |
| 10 | But you see , I just went to the education officer and I say , he , he ran it , he , it , it was , it was his responsibility the Guild 's were and I went to him about a Guild matter and I said oh , erm how I mentioned that I was working and he said well where are you working ? |
| 11 | I hope that the Minister is more successful with his new portfolio than his predecessors were and I wish him all the best in the difficult task that lies ahead of him . |
| 12 | ‘ I have no idea who these riders were and I have to accept the clerk of the course 's decision . |
| 13 | It 's er erm a little bit more straightforward a we 're looking straight onto this wall , looking straight onto the steps , and we 're looking straight onto the door , so everything is looking , sort of erm full-faced as it were and I think that makes for a less interesting composition than the previous one . |
| 14 | ‘ Steve was never mine to let go but I thought you were and I did n't let you go ! |
| 15 | Yeah we were and I did n't know how to go for this fifty one on the . |
| 16 | And in the evening I looked for them , and then I saw them of course , I knew where they were and I thought quite longly we were right in the front . |
| 17 | And some aero aero aeroplane erm g er er what er I think they were If I remember rightly , they were the er Oh dear . |
| 18 | It 's been hell shut up in that cottage with two women who would both have braved the weather to come up here to see how you were if I had n't been on hand to stop them . ’ |
| 19 | Of course , I realize today , the place I hid them in everybody must have known where they were cos I was small and having to reach , and the large ones must have seen they were there anyway , but er it did n't dawn on me then . |
| 20 | you were cos I when Les came I thought you were still feeding them |
| 21 | Alan told me how old they were but I 'm a bit vague about kids , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 22 | I saw movements from from er the far side of the room , erm which with , due to the light , erm I could distinguish as being human beings but er not immediately what sex they were but I could see enough to say that they were persons . |
| 23 | Now , I have put down reports about the finance committee er as it were but I think the responses from the churches and districts sort of calculator will be there , we think that it would seem as though we should only offer the same amount as last year . |
| 24 | I were I were but I and were n't I Bet ? |
| 25 | I know how good you were because I was at that stage in maths where I felt rudderless and becalmed , drifting helplessly as it were , as my peer group — the rest of the fleet — sailed serenely on towards the horizon . |
| 26 | Aye till I were till I was about fifteen and we we went to live at . |
| 27 | Yeah it were after I 'd had summat to eat . |
| 28 | Rule off from where you were before I want you to get some information down about our solar system . |
| 29 | And what this means is that from now on the cla lectures will trail the classes , which , which does n't matter and is actually quite er a good thing in the sense that what will happen from now on is that we 'll first do a topic in the class and then I will give the lecture on it the week after , or possibly even two weeks after , which is okay because it means that then in the lecture I can concentrate on filling in the gaps , straightening out the misunderstandings and generally adding to what we did in the class , rather than leading as it were as I have up until now . |
| 30 | what it were when I started going . |