Example sentences of "he were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when he were down the town hall . |
| 2 | It would be the most terrible calamity if he were to be killed not knowing ! |
| 3 | Pastiche or not , ‘ Disco Dancer ’ lived in the kind of predictability that Morrissey , if he were to be truly distanced from The Smiths , would denounce fervently . |
| 4 | She had not decided whether or not to tell Dick , but if he were to be told it would be by her , not by the Longhills . |
| 5 | What if he were to be punished for his vengeance by a plunge into the nerve-glove ? |
| 6 | If he were to be an ‘ S. ’ also , a Stephen or a Sam , then how was she to know which of them had given her orders ? |
| 7 | ‘ If he were to institute proceedings for infringement before the patent for the invention was sealed , the procedural requirement of the proviso would not be satisfied but a statement of claim could not be struck out as disclosing no cause of action although it might be liable to be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 8 | You ca n't seriously be suggesting that I … that I should become his mistress if he were to … to want me as such ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If , for example , he were to be engaged in the reconnaissance of the Unknown Lands , ’ Alexei supplied . |
| 10 | I think I said how it would please me if one day he were to be elected to the Cullbridge Athenaeum . |
| 11 | ‘ He is remarkably well handicapped on 10st four , and if he were to be handicapped again he would go up another stone . |
| 12 | ‘ It would be unfortunate , ’ said Paul , ‘ if he were to be derailed at this point . ’ |
| 13 | In these lines , Brutus is saying that the only way to stop Caesar becoming emperor is to kill him , and although he has no personal grievances against Caesar ( Caesar is kind to him and favours him ) , it would be bad for the people of Rome ( ‘ the general ’ ) if he were to be crowned . |
| 14 | She knew she would open it , but when she did it would be as if he were with her all over again , and she would suffer so … |
| 15 | So erm mum went down one day and he was there and she said he were with my sister 's boy , they were both sleeping rough . |
| 16 | When in the course of my explanation I mentioned the word pagan , he jerked as if he were on the end of a wire . |
| 17 | They faced each other , Harry standing with his hands on his hips , Sir Gregory forcing back his shoulders as if he were on parade and trying to reassure himself of his own rank and standing . |
| 18 | It was almost as if he were on their side . |
| 19 | Marek 's tremble quickened , as though he were on the verge of taking a decision . |
| 20 | It made him look a little as though he were on safari . |
| 21 | He used to carry on as though he were on a level with Dersingham . |
| 22 | Rincewind took a few steps forward , cupidity moving him as easily as if he were on little wheels . |
| 23 | He was a thin , brown man with a brass stud at the neck of his striped shirt and a sad expression as if he were on the point of tears . |
| 24 | The drunken miller 's incoherency , " " as he were on the quakke " " ( 4152 ) recalls how Nicholas puts the equivalent of an ass 's head on John the carpenter by portraying him , absurdly , as a duck swimming above the Second Flood ( 3575 – 6 ) . |
| 25 | The young officer held a short leather stick in a gloved hand and occasionally thumped the side of his leg with it , as if he thought he were on horseback . |
| 26 | He were on er , he were on evenings last week were n't he ? |
| 27 | He were on er , he were on evenings last week were n't he ? |
| 28 | It did n't seem right , yet , looking at his face you 'd , she 'd thought he could have come home , but when you lifted the bloody sheets and then she 'd never seen anything like it , and then on the Monday morning , I stayed with him Sunday night and he were on morphine fusions and then on the Monday morning I woke up and mum had gone , when I looked at dad I thought to myself then I thought oh boy you ai n't gon na go now mum nipped home for a bath they said she could and it 'll be alright and they said |
| 29 | No , stuck it over David 's head , he were on the phone to a client , we took a photo , somebody took a photo of it , we knocked on the door we said David have you got a minute ? |
| 30 | He were on the shed roof ? |