Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , yes yeah , I mean , I think if I if I were to say to you , shall we sing the National Anthem , we 'd say , oh no , no , no . |
| 2 | ‘ If I were to go to only one meeting a year for each of them , it would still be more than one a week , ’ he confesses , admitting that it is one of his greatest weaknesses . |
| 3 | I have been living in the city for three years and if I were to go to the estates now they would n't give me work . |
| 4 | Two or three 'phone calls later and it was all arranged — Jane I were to go to Skomer . |
| 5 | What kind of a reception would I get if I were to go to your mother now ? |
| 6 | eh he says , then I were transferred to another one , then from another one , to another one . |
| 7 | The next morning when we woke Rick and I were joined by Mr Ferguson and son where we drank that ’ life saving ’ first coffee of the day and then took the photos of the night 's conquest . |
| 8 | The day after we first visited the castle , my sister and I were treated to a walk along the cliffs . |
| 9 | It happened in a flash , although in retrospect everything seemed to occur in slow motion , as though I were watching from another planet . |
| 10 | If I were looking for a record deal , I would be pursuing individual A&R people , getting them to come and see my band . |
| 11 | If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail . |
| 12 | There 's the one I were looking for . |
| 13 | I were looking for an alarm clock , I thought I better have a new one else I 'm gon na start sleeping in for work . |
| 14 | I were looking at your feet but |
| 15 | Tal talking about pensions Tom , the chap er cha with the office girls and that and , and checking our expense sheets , he , he er they put a notice on the board you could ante your what , in your pension , you could a put a bit more into it and I were looking at notice and he says ooh he says it 's no good for you , he says er w well I told you about it did n't I ? |
| 16 | I noticed , I were looking at prices , they 're all different prices . |
| 17 | I were looking at that one |
| 18 | Cos I were looking at Steve 's . |
| 19 | there 's something on the radio and I were commenting on it and then he all of a sudden he played it back , oh , er , it was about then probably |
| 20 | That Monday , for some reason , my sisters and I were despatched to Fair View Road where Uncle Ernest , Dad 's brother , lived with his second wife , Aunt Ella . |
| 21 | [ 6- 3 H ] -Thymidine ( specific activity 25–30 Ci/ mmol ) and carrier free Na 1 2 5 I were obtained from Amersham International PLC , Amersham , Bucks , UK . |
| 22 | Afterwards ( another former Lancaster student ) invited me home to tea , and in the evening , and I were entertained at home by |
| 23 | Meanwhile , on the other side of the door he was impatiently eyeing , Karen and I were locked in a windowless room about five feet by three , with no possibility of escape short of flushing ourselves down the lavatory . |
| 24 | You know , I sometimes feel as if you and I were connected by a string tying our two hearts together , and if you went to Ireland , I think that string might break and I might bleed to death . ’ |
| 25 | If I were to turn to a man on a bench |
| 26 | About 1.45am a few other hostages and I were herded into a red van at gunpoint and driven to a private home in the wealthy neighbourhood where General Noriega lives . |
| 27 | I apprehend however that it would be disappointing to you — I ca n't think why — if I were to stop at this point . |
| 28 | Besides , I would have to love him if … if I were to live like that . |
| 29 | I were thinking about that bungalow , and , well actually it 's as far from our road , nearly as far from our road to there , as what is it from bungalow window to road . |
| 30 | Tell you what , Jacqui and I were thinking of tootling on to the midnight matinee at the Parthenon after this lot . |