Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] it were " in BNC.
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| 1 | Place the cone or ball on the floor beside you and hold the yarn above the carriage , in the position it would be in if it were threaded through the yarn mast . |
| 2 | And it , it becomes you 'd never actually get the thing printed and you 'd never actually get the thing distributed because you , you , you 're wondering what to put in , what not to put in as it were and sticking to the specifics er at least it 's getting it 's getting something out and I do n't , personally I do n't see any , any real problem in personalizing it further and as much to indicate , right , without obvious prejudice to the new union erm to indicate er in , in some general or specific sense , if that does n't sound like sort of like contradictory , on on the , the , the betterment of , of representation for members within , within Northumberland come unison . |
| 3 | Erm if you 're buying an endowment policy is it possible to put er put it in as it were paid up , or do you have to find the premiums out of your income ? |
| 4 | So what I intend to do from this week is that very thing , try and fill in as it were and er make up for what was n't covered in the classes because I must admit that this year I 've been struck by the high st high standard of the class presentations . |
| 5 | Instead of , instead of giving the emphasis to er what Freud said and trying to rather hurriedly , and as it turned out , too hurriedly , er fill in as it were the , the background from the point of view of modern er modern understanding of the evolution of sex . |
| 6 | Now whether we would find in our strate if we were to have a strategic sites policy erm whether there 's an issue there that it might let in as it were too much of that kind of land use and not enough of the manufacturing or proper office kind I think is worth kicking around the table . |
| 7 | Are her and Bren still in the , more or less the same boat , they kind of just , mustering through as it were ? |
| 8 | Two men will have two weeks off and it were twelve in the shop . |
| 9 | We 'd all be better off if it were abandoned . ’ |
| 10 | and spend an afternoon cutting it off as it were |
| 11 | So we started another thing then the , if you paid fourpence you , you could have your suit wrapped up and it were new paper with string . |
| 12 | I picked it up and it were th the er strap got the wrong way round . |
| 13 | Right , well we 're not there 's nothing firmed up as it were . |
| 14 | Erm , well Spencer was a great great great bloke from many points of view but er unfortunately his ideas of er evolution were er mixed up as it were . |
| 15 | All right until their number comes up as it were . |
| 16 | I was over in Belfast and I came back and it were green . |
| 17 | Erm , it , what it struck me as is a parallel with Freud 's idea of transference , you know that once something happens in the , in the traumatic period in a , in a childhood , there 's then a tendency to transference to occur later in life , we recreate later in relationships to er the model of the early one and er it struck me that what you said about French industrial relations sounded a bit like transference in erm in the psychoanalysis the idea that i i it spills out as it were from the initial which might have been saved er within the family to other relationships i in later life that people have with their superiors at work or something I mean you can see this actually sometimes you know that people have relationships with their superiors which are clearly erm based on erm their relationships with their parents and they see the , th their boss as a parental figure and the employee sees themselves as er as , as , as a kind of erm child and it shows itself sometimes in quite er quite unmistakable ways . |
| 18 | The other thing , and this is a case of where the panel bites back as it were . |
| 19 | I turned round and it were all right at back of my jeans ! |
| 20 | Are any of these calamities which need not have occurred , or where they all acts which were very unfortunate but occurred with basically goodwill all round as it were ? |
| 21 | But then , urged on as it were by a series of multiple lightning flashes , it hesitated no more and , instead of increasing gradually from the first tentative shower , the water gushed forth in a vast fountain . |