Example sentences of "i [was/were] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were Mrs Douglas and had put up with years of a philandering , self-important husband I think I might consider I was more deserving than him of the luxury away-from-it-all fortnight 's vacation . |
| 2 | Michel and I were cousins , not first cousins of course — ’ |
| 3 | But if I were Ben Hogan , and a Bob Hamilton or Willie Goggin chipped in to beat me in The Masters , a Walter Burkemo holed a sand shot to swipe the PGA , a raw rookie — pick one — holed a 7-iron to beat me somewhere in Florida and then the like of a Bud Holscher or a Shelley Mayfield holed yet another sand shot to steal yet another victory , then I 'd not only be scouring the Fort Worth Yellow Pages looking for the nearest shrink , I might even think of tossing myself under a freight train in the nearest marshalling yard . |
| 4 | So , ‘ What would my priorities be if the bad dream came true , and I were Minister of Health now ? ’ |
| 5 | I said you and I were man and wife , and to lose me would break or damage your bond with the King . |
| 6 | On balance , though , if I were Burnham , I think I 'd rather stand accused of Intent to Titillate than Gross Inattention . |
| 7 | She wanted to know all about the Tyrrell Society , of which Willy , Alan and I were members . ’ |
| 8 | Both he and I were members of the Committee when the report was produced . |
| 9 | Although neither my hon. Friend nor I were Members of the House when Mr. Thorpe was a Member , we both remember that , as my hon. Friend said , he was a ’ dashing figure ’ in the politics of the 1970s . |
| 10 | My sister and I were investments that did n't pay off for the income that is derived from investment is unearned income : having made that initial payment , the investor need make no further effort . |
| 11 | If I were William Styron , the third speaker , I 'd keep my head down . |
| 12 | I can tell you this much , if I were Lionel Dunbar , I 'd have packed her in months ago . |
| 13 | Complete this sentence : If I were dictator for a day … |
| 14 | Complete this sentence : If I were dictator for a day … |
| 15 | Susan and Luke and I were friends years ago : we lost touch not long before you and Luke came to know one another . ’ |
| 16 | Falconer — well , Giles , for he and I were friends — devised a scheme whereby one of our agents would use one of Paris 's most expensive whores to trap a leading member of the Luciferi . |
| 17 | ‘ Your mother and I were friends from our schooldays . |
| 18 | I think it would be true to say that my two brothers and sister and I were products of the Anglican parochial system , at a time when almost all charitable work was carried on by the churches . |
| 19 | If I were Russia , that 's what I 'd do , just to keep up appearances I mean , you ca n't let the word start to get about . |
| 20 | I were dickeyup in a week . ’ |
| 21 | The snag is it could be almost anyone , and if I were Neneh Cherry or Stock , Aitken or Waterman , I do n't think I 'd be losing sleep over it . |
| 22 | I 've been flung into a filthy cell with a lot of other poor wretches as if I were sack of coals being emptied into a cellar . " |
| 23 | My mother and I were evacuees in Cumberland , a few hundred miles north . |
| 24 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |
| 25 | Now if I were Alwyn I would not be too proud of winning a competition to see who could use more cliches than anyone else . |
| 26 | Nigel , the old Charmer , and I were half-nelson 'd with mirth . |
| 27 | From that moment on , Ian and I were pals . ’ |
| 28 | If I were Souness I 'd go for the Charles Bronson option . |
| 29 | ‘ If I were Jerry , ’ said Finlayson , ‘ I 'd go for the France . |
| 30 | Werewolf and I were numbers three and four in the queue and the Sergeant had to tap his watch a couple of times as Werewolf seemed to be requiring more help than the rest of us from Private Boyd in getting his belt on . |