Example sentences of "i were [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be helpful if I were to outline briefly the history of the STUCC and of the Government 's thinking on this matter . |
| 2 | He and I were eating heartily when Byron threw down his fork and cried , ‘ Oh for the horrors of polite society again ! |
| 3 | The conviction started from my body and the discovery that no one could prevent me — if I were determined enough — from treating it as I wished . |
| 4 | I felt as if I were moving just a beat faster than everyone else . |
| 5 | how old he was , Nicodemus was born physically just the same as you and I were born physically . |
| 6 | And now it was as if I were sinking blissfully into a warm bath and lying there perfectly relaxed … |
| 7 | ‘ If I were to set aside all those communications which are expressed or expressible in words written , spoken or signed — what would be left over ? ’ |
| 8 | I certainly do not charge the Minister with dishonesty ; if I were to do so I should be reprimanded . |
| 9 | My friend and I were made very welcome at the centre — the staff , atmosphere and facilities were excellent , as was the food . |
| 10 | I tell it just as it happened , from where we ran up the hill almost straight into the man ; I leave out what Andy and I were doing just before , and the man 's line about dirty , perverted things . |
| 11 | Actually , Cole was n't proposing donations to aid agencies as the ‘ solution ’ to mass starvation any more than Stuart Weir and I were doing so a few years ago . |
| 12 | And I were doing very well . |
| 13 | He is teasing me , as the hon. Member for Normanton ( Mr. O'Brien ) and I were teased occasionally in the Standing Committee on the Local Government Finance Bill during the past three weeks . |
| 14 | I were crying again ! |
| 15 | ‘ If I were to marry again . ’ |
| 16 | At the time I was playing a Les Paul , which was n't my first choice because I had been playing Telecasters when Stevie ( Nicks ) and I were working together before we joined Fleetwood Mac , but when we joined the band there was an existing sound and the Telecaster was n't cutting it . |
| 17 | I were coming home one day with the with the with me shopping . |
| 18 | One November afternoon Leithen and I were coming home from a ride . |
| 19 | And then I were coming home and I were , I were really awful . |
| 20 | My start was beginning to let me down around this time — Ron and I were concentrating more on my pick-up — but I had the satisfaction of beating Calvin Smith quite comfortably . |
| 21 | If I were saying here that I do n't approve , then obviously it would be of no value , it would just be generation gap inanity , but it 's not that , and approval does n't come into the equation . |
| 22 | I backed up onto it I backed up onto it , you know , when I was do ta and I were hoovering away , I thought aye aye ! |
| 23 | ‘ You make me wish I were going ashore . ’ |
| 24 | It caught me with my hand I were going so well and all of a sudden |
| 25 | It was a hurried occasion , as we were all going to catch a train : the same train , as it turned out , for Donald and I were going home to Oxford , and Ivy and Margaret were going with Herman Schrijver — the Dutch interior decorator who became the closest of her men friends — to spend a week at Woodstock , and walk in the park at Blenheim . |
| 26 | Ken Pitt : ‘ It was 1968 and David and I were going across to Germany quite often to do television shows and on one occasion , the producer whose name was Gunther Schneider , asked us if David would be interested in doing a half-hour programme with him . |
| 27 | ‘ No , but I have n't told Ma yet , so I came out as if I were going too school . ’ |
| 28 | Moreover if I were to fly there what should I do but renew sorrows and incur perhaps insupportable difficulties in attempting to record them . |
| 29 | One day in 1964 , while Richard was playing in Hamlet on Broadway , he and I were interviewed jointly in a private corner of an Eighth Avenue bar and restaurant much frequented by theatre people . |
| 30 | at eight o'clock I were sat outside |