Example sentences of "[pron] were [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1 openly support the FDR-FMLN and feel that it would be an opportunistic attitude on my part to expect to act as a spiritual leader of my people after the triumph of the revolution if I were not working with them at this crucial time . |
| 2 | I , I were n't heard of him |
| 3 | tell I were n't going to about half past six , seven . |
| 4 | But should n't I do better work if I were n't driven from pillar to post to supplement my salary ? |
| 5 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 6 | I were just looking at this . |
| 7 | I were just pretending to him , because I ai n't really full of beans . |
| 8 | ‘ The little lady and I were just talkin' about where to have dinner . ’ |
| 9 | And the manager the un the the deputy met me he says , And I were just going down main road at nighttime as me dad were coming up . |
| 10 | I were just talking about you to Maggie then . |
| 11 | Here my brother and I were immediately enrolled in the choir of St Luke 's church . |
| 12 | Mac and I were both entered in the 100 metres . |
| 13 | Both he and I were greatly diminished by Dr Maté , who now made a proclamation , reading from a box . |
| 14 | With so much happening , and no central authority , Lorne and I were constantly harried by the attempt to film only the crucial events , which appeared to erupt spontaneously at any time of the day or night , while conserving the precious little film stock we had put aside for the intended Bugis film . |
| 15 | I were only saying to a lady this morning about ee aye our Emma used to come to Leyland with a a wad of ten shilling notes new and we 'd go to er Southport would n't we ? |
| 16 | For instance , what it is for there to be a red rose in this darkened room is for it to be the case that if I were to turn the light on , I would make a certain observation , and if I were then to move to another place , I would make an observation rather different , and if you were to come in , you would observe such and such , and so on . |
| 17 | I must have accepted the prospect of this baby with a vengeance , if I were seriously thinking of knitting as a desirable occupation . |
| 18 | ‘ The writing was a weird mixture , because having gone through The Beatles and The Stones , Mike and I were very influenced by the blues era . |
| 19 | After a couple of hours the German lady and I were so choked with emotion that we were scarcely able to speak . |
| 20 | I do n't know why , but it seemed important to me to establish that we have n't any fuse-boxes ( and indeed we have n't ) , but she would n't allow this and was quite stern with me about it as if I were deliberately lying to her . |
| 21 | Adelaide and I were never blessed with children , but it has always been my dearest wish to have a family . ’ |
| 22 | In the light of yesterday 's public sector pay settlements , which were particularly welcomed by teachers , will my right hon. Friend give the House some broad indication of just how many teachers will now be earning more than £20,280 a year ? |
| 23 | Among the foreign objects , which were either made by Mesopotamians living at Susa or seized as war booty , is the stele of Naramsin ( 2254–2218 BC ) , a stone relief showing the Akkadian king conquering a frontier tribe in a mountainous landscape , one of the greatest masterpieces of ancient Near Eastern art . |
| 24 | In 1968 Gow and Page followed up their first volume by bringing out Hellenistic Epigrams : the Garland of Philip , again in two volumes ; this time Gow was primarily responsible for the 650 epigrams which were either attributed to Antipater of Thessalonica or left over as being either his work or that of Antipater of Sidon . |
| 25 | His writings on art include several reviews of the Paris Salons , which were either published in booklets or in journals such as the Revue française . |
| 26 | The Severum had previously outgrown his siblings very rapidly and had shown no hint of aggression except for eating three Halfbeaks which were temporarily transferred to his tank . |
| 27 | A design often found on enssi rugs , which were traditionally used as door-hangings in the nomad 's yurt ( tent ) ; it is quite common for any rug woven in this design to be referred to as an enssi , or a Bokhara with an enssi design . |
| 28 | There is a possibility that dun Galloways , which were traditionally fattened on turnips in East Anglia in large numbers in the nineteenth century , contributed to the now extinct Suffolk Dun which was part-originator of the Red Poll . |
| 29 | Handicap is defined in terms of symptoms which were traditionally attributed to hearing loss . |
| 30 | I think those were the ones which were most influenced by … the paintings he did between 1926 and about 1932 , were n't they ? |