Example sentences of "[conj] it were [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember myself , one time we had we had two grand fields and it were They were almost ripe when it came an awful time of rain , and they were just a sort of flattened . |
| 2 | However , he concludes sportingly : ‘ If it were me , I 'd buy an Apple Macintosh . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Frankly , if it were me , I would . |
| 4 | if it were me , if it were you , we 'd drink up |
| 5 | If it were me I should want to … ’ |
| 6 | yeah I think the er what I , if , if it were me , I 'm not saying this is the , you know , the way to do it , if it |
| 7 | Could n't , no I could n't , I wonder if it were him ? so , she 's my bloody . |
| 8 | The argument is not that the check is fallible , for if it were we might still hope that enough memories could be got to prop each other up , as Ayer suggests ( Ayer , 1954 ) . |
| 9 | Doctor Hensman was still in charge , making solemn authoritative pronouncements and predictions , and behaving as if it were he who had cured the patient . |
| 10 | ‘ If it were he why should he be attacked in the forest ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He straightened one or two things out in my action , worked on my technique a bit , but the most important thing he taught me was to concentrate on every single delivery as if it were he most important in your life . |
| 12 | If it were I am sure we could find a way to beat it , such as having a weaker link to the ‘ feeder so that it will break away when snagged . |
| 13 | By my judgement as the amendment reflects is that it is n't necessary but if it were I would have no hesitation s whatsoever in increasing the level of taxation to pay for what needs to be paid for . |
| 14 | if it were me , if it were you , we 'd drink up |
| 15 | Yet this stranger had a different manner altogether from the old doctor who , when he had n't his hearing aid in place , shouted as if it were you who were deaf . |
| 16 | If it were you would n't be hurting and breaking your heart over him . ’ |
| 17 | Needless to say , this is no reason why feminists should cease their demands ( quite the reverse ) , but it is a reason why the demand for abolition will never be met in isolation ; and even if it were it would be pointless overall , since further anomalies would be created and the burden of injustice simply shifted to other women . |
| 18 | Although this argument is not developed into specific proposals for the curriculum , if it were it would lead to a very different form from that of the DES . |
| 19 | A , because it 's not an idiom , and B even if it were it would be a whole sentence , because walk is intransitive . |
| 20 | Damn him for dissembling ; for pretending to Daniel that he was n't wounded to the core at being passed over , pretending that it was only Anna who was suffering , as if it were she who could not bear the lack of advancement , of increased prosperity . |
| 21 | If it were mine and I wanted to make serious use of the bass , I 'd probably take the E and A drones off , as one could argue that they do n't do enough on top of the heavier bass strings , which might be better used for playing ‘ proper ’ bass lines . |
| 22 | Well there there i they used to s you know invite everybody you said to you know everybody down on the picket line , well we were kids we used to go like re to be quite honest like we went because it were you know a bit of fun really . |
| 23 | I said no Julie I said I have n't I said I would tell you cos I said I , she said to me do ring me and let me know , and I said I said I would and I will , I said no cos I did n't tell her when it were you see , so I said it 's this week coming and I 'll ring you this on Monday , so she said oh it was only , cos she said I saw Deb and Deb wondered , I thought yeah I bet she did she would |
| 24 | She swallowed convulsively , her hand tracing the door as though it were him . |
| 25 | But er the welfare one was my er secret love as it were it was . |
| 26 | In so far as the functions performed by Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih , apparently successively , may be characterized as an " office " from an Institutional point of view , as it were it seems not to have been continuous , however , at least on the evidence of the biographical sources . |
| 27 | And then I had to th the shower just came , you know came to pieces in our hand , as it were it was not working as a shower so a plumber had to come Mr Butcher came into me |
| 28 | Well in a sense how do you know you 're not , as it were you know in many cases . |
| 29 | yeah I think that 's probably the best thing and gradually the past you 've missed might start fitting into place as it were you know if you , if you keep up with the present , I think that 's probably the best thing so er and , you know , er I know it 's no comfort but these things take time , you know it takes time to get socialized into something and it takes time to get used to a way of working . |
| 30 | So as it were you , you , you turn up holidays and you , you , you , you , you scroll through until you |