Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if I were Alwyn I would not be too proud of winning a competition to see who could use more cliches than anyone else . |
| 2 | If I were Souness I 'd go for the Charles Bronson option . |
| 3 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 4 | ‘ If I were manager I would … ’ |
| 5 | Er recordwise it never happened and does never seem to happen but we can go to America and work in the Irish centres and the Irish clubs and be an Irish band but er the way we could come over here and do a concert to people in general , it does n't I think the radio situation in America for years was al always very if you were folk you played in folk programme , if you were country you 'll play in the country prog whereas here in Britain there 's one great thing with the radio system , people tend to play whatever you know if it 's easy listening programme they play whatever is is nice and easy listening you know . |
| 6 | And when you were pros you did , you got all the mucky jobs to do as well . |
| 7 | Er recordwise it never happened and does never seem to happen but we can go to America and work in the Irish centres and the Irish clubs and be an Irish band but er the way we could come over here and do a concert to people in general , it does n't I think the radio situation in America for years was al always very if you were folk you played in folk programme , if you were country you 'll play in the country prog whereas here in Britain there 's one great thing with the radio system , people tend to play whatever you know if it 's easy listening programme they play whatever is is nice and easy listening you know . |
| 8 | ‘ To be absolutely honest , even if you were Aphrodite herself , I would n't let you come near me . ’ |
| 9 | And maybe if you were Mandy you could . |
| 10 | Do you think Elvis understood that you were people who needed to make a living on a day-to-day , month-to-month , year-to-year basis ? |
| 11 | If you do , I can assure you we shall be in your debt and we shall play for you as though you were Mahler himself . ’ |
| 12 | We were daitlers we worked on the In the stone , you see ? |
| 13 | But for the moment we were friends who had to prepare Wavebreaker for a possible Atlantic crossing . |
| 14 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 15 | Yeah the master walked past , if they had been boys they would have said something , you know , go into your study and do some work , do something you know , but because they were girls th we were girls they did n't |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When we were kids we 'd never of dreamt of this would we ? |
| 18 | God , we used to come here when we were kids you know ? |
| 19 | Er I when we were midwives we used to say that was the way to bring a child up but w when you 'd had your own you sort of bent the rules a little bit more . |
| 20 | When we were children we were told that we would be sent there if we were naughty . |
| 21 | If the fragment of discourse one wished to study was only the part of ( 5 ) beginning , when we were children we used to use this taw , then accounting for the speaker 's mention of the trolley near the end of this fragment would have to be done in terms of the preceding discourse ( i.e. all the first section before the taw is mentioned ) in which the trolley is introduced and characterised . |
| 22 | No , even before this coming to be er came to be we were there and we were men who were different and some of us were even gods and we were pure souls and intellects . |
| 23 | The student 's willingness , however , to involve John and to try and behave fairly towards him were acts which potentially respected both his rationality and his vulnerability . |
| 24 | Nobody mentioned that they were puppets themselves . |
| 25 | As Shama talked , Hussa added a reminder here and there as though they were stories which she had heard many times before . |
| 26 | They were sheep who had decided that this was no time to waste energy panicking when it could be used for galloping away as fast as possible . |
| 27 | They seemed to her unearthly ; a new combination of loss , pain and fear : they were howls she would have made herself only half-an-hour before , if she had known how . |
| 28 | They were players who carved out their own special niche but were denied the ultimate honour . |
| 29 | The essence of Hollywood was that it used actors who became real before the camera ; they were not ciphers there to be manipulated by an all-powerful director but they were actors who were able to combine natural qualities and varied skills and techniques in such a way as to create an on-camera identity . |
| 30 | They were con-men who work the black market and although they spent the whole of the next day in Irkutsk taking me to lunch , visiting a host of Siberian churches and museums and organising a trip to the opera , their interest was in valutta — hard currency — not culture . |