Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were to leave the job in 1995 or 1996 I would not want to leave behind a wrecked team because that 's not my style . |
| 2 | If I were writing the article today … |
| 3 | I think that it would be helpful if , at this point , I were to remind the House that we have made special provision for students in certain groups . |
| 4 | Today my brother and I were catching the 7.00 am aeroplane from Newcastle to Corfu . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yet you would have thought that you know , it was n't as if I were disrupting the class or anything . |
| 7 | I were flying the next day to Benidorm I 've had trouble all the time with me back |
| 8 | Now I would not want to live in a country where my ex-wife and I were denied the right to another chance . ’ |
| 9 | I wish we were having a picnic , and that it was hot , and I do indeed wish that we were all together ; though even if I were to hold the whole world against my chest , it would probably save us from very little . |
| 10 | The light , detached tones inside my head grow low and reluctant , as if I were switching the tape-recorder to a slower speed . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it would be helpful if I were to explain the background to the Government 's overall policy on the financial support of full-time students . |
| 12 | When Moira and I were passing the bandstand , I touched his arm and said , Hello , Cam . |
| 13 | If the content of a putatively infallible belief is merely that things are looking that way to me now , there is clearly less room for error than if I were to risk the belief that that way is pink . |
| 14 | Says Catherine ‘ My flatmates and I were expecting the return of our £780 deposit when we were told the agency had gone bankrupt . |
| 15 | I were given the chance . |
| 16 | It is sometimes easier to proceed on the basis of : ‘ If I were doing the job this is how I would do it ’ , but this can be delusory even for analysts who have past experience as operators . |
| 17 | Lee and I were feeling the tension . |
| 18 | By this time Sandy and I were feeling the effects of our long day and by mutual agreement we made our way back to the ship . |
| 19 | It was a difficult case to argue , though , without sounding as if I were asking the Government to give in . |
| 20 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
| 21 | " Suppose I were to break the bones in my wings , and then fly to the top of the mountain and back . |
| 22 | If , however , I were to consider the more elaborate findings and reasons which they gave subsequently , then again I would hold their findings and their reasons to be unsustainable . |
| 23 | Course I were away then working , I were putting the bi the big plant in in Burnley . |
| 24 | Understand this , though — if I were to dispute the matter with you , I would win . |
| 25 | Well , if I were to run the car backwards for long enough then obviously that would do it . |
| 26 | Ma , Patrick and I were walking the dog |
| 27 | ‘ It is n't very high on my list of priorities but I guess I 'd change my mind soon enough if I were to meet the right person . ’ |
| 28 | What I do not possess , however , is any suitable travelling clothes — that is to say , clothes in which I might be seen driving the car — unless I were to don the suit passed on by the young Lord Chalmers during the war , which despite being clearly too small for me , might be considered ideal in terms of tone . |
| 29 | Whether it was that in that heightened state I had a premonition of what was to follow , or was simply recalling Dennis 's corpse-like stupor in the next room , I felt a perverted thrill , as though I were desecrating the most holy altar of all . |
| 30 | Whatever , the cops eventually moved on and the Englishman and I were spared the task of explaining what such an unlikely pair of lads as ourselves were doing with such a gleaming trophy . |