Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " A likely thing it would be if I were to give a drink of milk to every beggar who passed through ! " exclaimed the second brother . |
| 2 | Ah I think it 's when Martin and I were taking a top up on our mortgage the last time erm the building society suggested we took the policy out with you . |
| 3 | There is enough in evidence here to convince me that if I were to submit a checklist to Jimmy Moon the resulting guitar would be a very fine instrument indeed . |
| 4 | Yet I know that if I were discussing a performance of , say , the ‘ Eroica ’ Symphony , I would come down like a ton of bricks on imprecise ensemble , where others would readily accept the fault if the interpretation was up to it ! |
| 5 | … and if this sounds as though I were conducting a tutorial , then I make no apology . |
| 6 | ‘ So if I were to screen a feature film for you , and in it there was a scene that took place with two characters talking on a sofa , you would be able to tell me whether there was an object lying behind it ? ’ |
| 7 | If I were to ask a school-teacher to choose for me a sample which she considered to be a fair cross-section of her pupils so that I could interview them for a survey , there would almost certainly be a personal bias in the sample given to me . |
| 8 | I had to go to court , to pay five bob , cos I were riding a bike without a light . |
| 9 | Paddy Ashdown and I were doing a walkabout in the main shopping precinct on the day after the election , when three small boys walked up to Paddy and asked , ‘ Ooh , are you David Rendel ? ’ |
| 10 | But , if I were to identify a trend , I would do so on a retailing analogy . |
| 11 | ‘ If I were painting a portrait of you , I 'd call it Rose by Firelight . ’ |
| 12 | Dominic and I were laughing a lot , because we were making up our own historical jokes in the style of 1066 and All That . |
| 13 | If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes . |
| 14 | I were making a cup of tea , I 'm chucking in a cup . |
| 15 | If I were carrying a baby , do n't you think it would be my first priority ! ’ |
| 16 | One year , when my wife Ann and I were leading a party of friends into the hills , we decided to split up . |
| 17 | ‘ If I were to have a child . |
| 18 | In 1968 my husband James Haynes-Dixon and I were offered a lease of Lamb House for seven years . |
| 19 | If I were planning a home visit to see someone I did n't already know , I 'd go with another colleague . ’ |
| 20 | I thought you 'd told him I were having a couple of days |
| 21 | Years later this lady of character was to write a rather moving piece entitled ‘ The Love Song of T. S. Eliot ’ secretary ( Confrontation , Long Island University , Winter 1975 ) ; and from what Eliot said once , though half-jocularly , when he and his wife and I were having a meal together , there was more than one secretary who could have composed such a Love Song , or at least who had the necessarily incentive or excuse , I vaguely recall the lady as of ample build and very cheerful , so she was able to put good face on her sad plight . |
| 22 | Well fair 's fair I were having a coffee with you , I 'm not just gon na walk out . |
| 23 | Imagine what the results would be if someone were to base a study of active religious adherence on the laconic entries made under the heading ‘ religion ’ on hospital admission forms in Great Britain ! |
| 24 | The abbreviation as it travelled around the dot board , sounded as if someone were reading a map accordion-folded between Africa and India . |
| 25 | I was invited a year or so later to the Royal Garden Party held in honour of the Queen Mother 's eightieth birthday , so there I was off again to London with a film crew in attendance . |
| 26 | I was called a Scab . |
| 27 | In military terms , I was called a runner , and as I had no bicycle at that time , running was literally what I did ! |
| 28 | ‘ He 'd been called a wop and I was called a coon . |
| 29 | Yeah I was called a roamer find me . |
| 30 | DOS 3.3 had been installed on the hard disk but I was using a DOS 2.11 floppy ( supplied with the machine ) in drive A. Ctrl+Alt+Delete would n't work and the reset button booted the machine into drive A. |