Tom ve Mary bahçede idiler.
- Tom and Mary were in the garden.
Anne ve babası gezisinin lehinde idi.
- His parents were in favor of his trip.
Bir bakıma, sorun çözülmüştür.
- As it were, the problem is solved.
Birbirimize tıpa tıp benziyoruz, bir bakıma.
- We're cut from the same cloth, as it were.
If I were you, I'd see a doctor.
Konserde çok fazla kişi vardı.
- There were too many people at the concert.
Bekleme salonunda beş hasta vardı.
- There were five patients in the waiting room.
Yet so strong is the parental ambition among those Polygons who are, as it were, on the fringe of the Circular class, that it is very rare to find a Nobleman of that position in society, who has neglected to place his first-born in the Circular Neo-Therapeutic Gymnasium before he has attained the age of a month.
Let's just say that mistakes were made. Twenty-eight years and plenty of mistakes were made.
John, you were the only person to see him.
They were a fine group.
We were about to leave.
Were father a king, we would have war. (= If father were a king,...).
Mary and John, you were right.