Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were writing it now … |
| 2 | I were watching it , every time you cough it starts flashing . |
| 3 | ‘ I hardly think that it would help you if I were to give it . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If I were coining it down in the bull market , ’ I reminded him , ‘ and you were my oldest friend and out of work and you came up with two corking girls like that , I 'd be honoured to pay the bill . ’ |
| 5 | " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said . |
| 6 | It seemed as if I were speaking it … |
| 7 | And if I were to put it , If you have an opportunity of two sites and the development of one is capable of causing damage to existing characteristics and the other is not , would you go for the the one which would not cause damage rather than the one which would , or would you willy-nilly plump for either ? |
| 8 | If I were to put it in er stewed apples or something I would n't eat the actual ginger but in a casserole , it 's nice . |
| 9 | Again , I could not afford much of it if I were buying it now . |
| 10 | If you and I were doing it you you 'd think about a lot |
| 11 | You see if I would go back , if I were doing it , to Times Heavy Titling or one of those do it all caps forget that . |
| 12 | MINTO : Paxford and I were saying it was so clear . |
| 13 | perhaps if I were dusting it might |
| 14 | I were playing it really really loud this morning . |
| 15 | Anyway , I was using it behind his back . |
| 16 | And then I was using it more or less daily for years … . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew it could n't be the murder weapon , ’ he gravely told Wickham , ‘ because I was using it on Friday evening , hours after MacQuillan was found dead . ’ |
| 18 | I knew too that that invitation was bound to come and I was dreading it . |
| 19 | In the dream , I was singing it in all me funny voices , from the squeaky one to the gruff one and it was a pile of bollocks . |
| 20 | I was singing it |
| 21 | I was singing it in , not in my feet I was going I was me going to do all the words |
| 22 | Oh no , I was wrestling it off to wash it in the end . |
| 23 | PS Stoke just won thier first game under Joe Jordan … so what ? well I was watching it on telly , had to come to work , & had to find something to do ! |
| 24 | Yeah and I was watching it on This Morning and what it is it 's because most things you 've got in your kitchen like myself are all tested on animals and they do n't label it |
| 25 | Darts was on again last night , I was watching it |
| 26 | and er I was watching it when it was raining the other day , you could see the rain dripping off the wood rather than soaking into it so it 's done something . |
| 27 | Yeah , I was watching it . |
| 28 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 29 | no , that 's a bad one , the er power supply to the machine , the lead it was , there was a break in the circuit and it kept going on and off , so actually I was switching it on right , it just was n't coming on , so she says oh use it by the battery cos its battery as well as electric |
| 30 | ‘ I was expectin' it , the way yer was both goin' on ; can hear it through the wall . ’ |