Example sentences of "i [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and I were of course aware that we were making two assumptions which were obviously incorrect . |
| 2 | My friends and I were of the resistance . |
| 3 | she was for the top of the hockey team and I were for the football |
| 4 | ‘ If I were to be wrapped up warmly , and … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Clive , what about if I were to … ’ |
| 6 | George and I were to be victims , I was to be taken to the top floor and George to the third floor up . |
| 7 | If I WERE to a take a bath I would not turn both taps fully on since this is bound to result in a freezing cold bath . |
| 8 | The nut appears to be plastic and , if I were to be really picky , has been cut a hair on the high side . |
| 9 | If I were to be critical it would be to say that the scratchplates could be finished off more tidily , and occasionally the necks and bodies do n't look entirely new — although that 's hardly surprising , really . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ If I were to single out any one project as a model of its kind , it is the car park in Chichester . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Well , you see — I thought I explained this to you — if I were to eidetik now I would go into a kind of a trance . |
| 12 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 13 | If I were to be denied my belief in the almost limitless potential of my students , I 'd give up . |
| 14 | especially if I were to actually get , if I get that I 'd consider going if I could get a place in the halls , the residence |
| 15 | But it or if I were to be thinking I 'd say , Is n't he . |
| 16 | If I were on the pay side in the Treasury , I would be prepared to permit maximum flexibility on the salary and conditions offered to the successful applicant . |
| 17 | Even from where Taff and I were on the road it was obvious that the dead soldiers were German . |
| 18 | John and I were on the dole . |
| 19 | It needed no great powers of prophecy to realize that Nigel and I were on a collision course . |
| 20 | Finally Mary Knelle and I were on our way once more , driving past hillsides where neat black cut-away shapes showed that turf had been extracted . |
| 21 | Towards noon , the mirage drew nearer , to about half a mile , as if I were on an island trapped by the in-coming tide . |
| 22 | ‘ I would n't ask him for help if I were on a sinking ship and he was the only one with a lifebelt ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ What I would like to know is why you saw fit to tell barefaced lies to your grandmother while your Dad and I were on holiday . ’ |
| 24 | It was about then I felt as if I were on a small boat on stormy seas . |
| 25 | ‘ Charles Laubscher and I were on standby , ’ relates Gerald Bellamy , ‘ and for some reason did not hear the scramble . |
| 26 | Years later Moira and I were on board the Queen Elizabeth II as guest lecturers when she sailed from Hong Kong to Acapulco in Mexico as part of that year 's world cruise . |
| 27 | Now Derek and I were on one side of the hedge , stuffing the ferrets down , and Brian was positioned on the other , with the bird , waiting for the evicted rabbits . |
| 28 | ‘ If I were on holiday , Nigel would be the first person I 'd contact when I got back . |
| 29 | Mike the Rhodesian and I were on ‘ corvée ’ duties one afternoon and were carrying the dustbins out to the shed behind the cookhouse where all the rubbish was deposited , which was home to a lot of stray cats and some aggressive rats . |
| 30 | I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there . |