Example sentences of "i were [verb] to " 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 day after we first visited the castle , my sister and I were treated to a walk along the cliffs . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If I were to turn to a man on a bench |
| 10 | JC : Peter , do you remember that really worrying evening when you , Ben , William and I were invited to a dinner party by the Harewoods at Orme Square [ May 18,1953 ] ? |
| 11 | ‘ — if I were affianced to him , ’ continued Anne without batting an eyelid , ‘ instead of — ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Besides — ’ said Anne who had not been listening , but pursuing her own line of thought ‘ — if I were affianced to Prince Edward , the marriage could be completed in a year or so — instead of delayed for Heaven knows how long ! ’ |
| 13 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 14 | That 's during the war yes and er , of course this is the first world war I were referring to and erm , the people appreciated this and we used to give it to them like you know . |
| 15 | Sergei said Bernard has n't been in touch with Bailey for days , certainly not since C.W. and I were assigned to the case . ’ |
| 16 | Floy said , slowly , ‘ If Snodgrass and I were to agree to it — ’ He stopped and Caspar said , ‘ Yes ? ’ |
| 17 | Well I s I were saying to Irene , I says did you ever get one ? |
| 18 | So Shitvolumes started preparing his next show as if I were going to be in it , until one day , just before The Jungle Book was about to go up , he came into the dressing room . |
| 19 | I had so far managed to avoid being kissed by the old bat , but I had the strong feeling that , by the end of the day , she and I were going to be getting physical . |
| 20 | Apparently Alice had told her that I were going to town with them |
| 21 | I give them to that solicitor that , I were talking to . |
| 22 | I were talking to him on Friday , and er , I mean , they 've not been down there five minutes . |
| 23 | We saw , we saw one or two others that were involved , that were involved in it , and er I were talking to the , one of the young producers that were there and er and I said if you 're short of some ac actors I said me and my mate will be actors you know , oh she said you 're dressed just right I 'll tell ya |
| 24 | Then I were talking to our Karen to about quarter to three |
| 25 | Well if I know who they are and I do n't know where they come from I 'll just put who they are day I were talking to them and dash it . |
| 26 | Traffic and all sorts , see I were talking to Joyce this morning |
| 27 | Anyway I were , I were talking to that lady and er she were on about you , and she says about putting your name |
| 28 | I were talking to her for about half an hour . |
| 29 | Some months later a colleague and I were returning to London from a meeting in Brussels . |
| 30 | Now if I were to suggest to you that in some gay bars the ‘ lads ’ pop off to the toilets that number of times to indulge themselves , then you might think I was repeating lurid propaganda put about by the puritan league . |