Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were managing an act like Bros , I would run a professional fan club . |
| 2 | They look as if I were committing an indecency . |
| 3 | What I 'm trying to say is that while I do n't really like the shape and some of the other features on this guitar at all , and would certainly not choose to include them if I were designing an instrument for myself , it should n't matter . |
| 4 | Out there my brother and I were allowed an hour 's TV after supper — that was the ration . |
| 5 | ‘ My wife did know that Nicola and I were having an affair . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I think they thought Mortimer and I were having an affair , ’ she finished up bitterly . |
| 7 | I was using an ear-plug and the lads could not hear it — I had gone to church alone . |
| 8 | At the same time I felt I was owed an explanation . |
| 9 | Not all my school friends believed I was training an owl , so when they said things like , ‘ What 're you doing tonight then , Jon ? ’ |
| 10 | And in I was planting an average , there was five of us working and the students and we used to average about fourteen to sixteen thousand every year of young plants . |
| 11 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |
| 12 | If I was setting an exam paper for summer it would be something I would think about putting in not that I am setting it in case you think I had n't . |
| 13 | The next evening I was facing an audience at the University of Houston , talking about the election . |
| 14 | I remember one occasion also when I was tracking an animal , a buffalo , with a Bushman . |
| 15 | Cos it was the only , it was either here or the Balloon Woods , cos I was er I was given an emergency placing , it was either here or Balloon Woods , and at the time I did n't fancy Balloon Woods , but I wish I 'd taken it now , I 'd be , I 'd have my own place by |
| 16 | As it happened , I was given an alternative . |
| 17 | I was leaving an office in a busy New Town square . |
| 18 | Last night I was reading an article about wages , and I realised ( with a little male surprise ) that you must be earning about three times as much as I do . |
| 19 | I was reading an article in issue 39 ( October 1992 ) about a lucky person ( Martin Lugg of London ) who had bought an Ericsson 286 IBM-compatible PC . |
| 20 | I was reading an article the other day in a theological journal about the Church in Korea , an dhow it was growing , and how people were taking their faith seriously . |
| 21 | I was reading an article ( Echoes , March 3 ) by David Isaacs about an old soldier 's experience in Singapore and it reminded me of a conversation with a friend in Carlisle . |
| 22 | But it 's not easy I mean you know I was reading an article ages ago a few months ago actually and saying you know if you think about it the sort of revolution was over a year ago and still the government has n't done anything about it and I mean like a lot of provisions that have been brought into Romania sort of go in the front door and out of the back door and you know they sort of sent those of supplies like contraceptions and things like that for the women and overlap |
| 23 | I was reading an article only in the last couple of days where it was talking about not particularly tourism , it was talking about a business that was in difficulty , and it said , you know , do you actually make people redundant , you do you stop advertising and you know the bottom line is you 've got to keep advertising because if you do n't tell people you 're there nobody 's going to come and buy your product , whatever it is , and you 're going to disappear anyway . |
| 24 | When I was writing an essay on Bernard Shaw , I read in one biography that he had attended a Wesleyan school and had always been at the bottom of his form . |
| 25 | When I was writing an article on Pottz he sent me three large studio portraits : one of Potter and two of himself . |
| 26 | When I mentioned to a colleague that I was writing an article on stress for CIBLINGS , he nodded and said ‘ yes , there 's a lot of it about ’ . |
| 27 | Whit says : ‘ My mum thought I was getting an education and was sending me £200 a month for rent and food . |
| 28 | I can conduct in front of the mirror , but if I was conducting an orchestra and something went wrong I could not put it back on the rails again . ’ |
| 29 | What approach to use , which questions to ask , what to look for while I was conducting an interview . |
| 30 | I thought I was running an airline . ’ ) |