Example sentences of "i [was/were] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She really talked as if I were a woman friend of her own age , her confidante . |
| 2 | The result of this ineptitude was that I was rumbled as a single parent within days , if not hours , and subsequently approached as if I were a fatal poison masquerading as a person . |
| 3 | My girlfriend and I were a conventional hand-holding couple and David and Angela were going to gay clubs at midnight and bringing home people at four in the morning which made things very tense , I would say . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Money can not soften some things , ’ Wilson said ‘ and you can not begin to imagine the insults , the nature of the insults , as though I were a woman of the streets … |
| 5 | Just as though I were a bit daft , Isobel thought with sudden resentment . |
| 6 | If I were a doctor I would have been happy to stay in Calcutta and work alongside British doctor , Jack Pregar , and his clinic in Middleton Row . |
| 7 | You ca n't feel benevolent and sympathetic , you ca n't just want everything to be nice , as if Jack were a child , and as if I were a child . |
| 8 | ‘ If I were a thief I could have forced my way in , or crept secretly in , ’ said the little tailor . |
| 9 | They looked about ten , with long hair , both so brown and handsome I could have hugged them ; if I were a woman I would have made a date with them for ten years ' time . |
| 10 | If I were a member of a species , highly evolved and perfectly adapted to a life among craggy rocks , pecking out the odd lamb 's eye , devouring a few mice , picking through a nice gamey carcass occasionally , but mostly just hovering gracefully around on thermals below cliffs , I would take great exception to being described as ‘ just ’ a crow . |
| 11 | His familiar way of observing things from a distance while highlighting a small detail — described in a different context by Hardy himself when he wrote , ‘ If I were a painter , I would paint a picture of a room as viewed by a mouse from a chink under the skirting ’ , and by the modern poet and critic Tom Paulin when he talks of Hardy wearing his imagination like a miner 's lamp — was now enriched by the workings of memory and the passage of time on the original observation . |
| 12 | If I were a fox I would prefer to take the chance of a twenty second chop by hounds . |
| 13 | ‘ When I am shaving in the morning I say to myself that if I were a young man I would emigrate . |
| 14 | As I said , if I were a young man , I should emigrate . ’ |
| 15 | Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change . |
| 16 | If I were a man I 'd tell me to get lost — and fast ! |
| 17 | ‘ You question me as though I were a pedlar but you do not tell me what you are doing in the forest . |
| 18 | Only if I were a boy could I ask girls out on dates ; only if I were a boy could I have sexual contact with girls . |
| 19 | Only if I were a boy could I ask girls out on dates ; only if I were a boy could I have sexual contact with girls . |
| 20 | But if I were a teenager and I saw a TV star telling me that he had taken coke , I would reckon that there must be a reason why the famous spend a fortune on this drug . |
| 21 | If I were a liar , I should prettify the past of your wife , but I am not . |
| 22 | He was right when he said the question I would have to answer most was ‘ When do we reach so and so ? ’ … and if I were a regular waiter he said I would know the answers , even though we 're thirty-five minutes earlier everywhere than the regular Canadian . ’ |
| 23 | The other actors , who were now gathered around Terry 's table with jars of yellow beer in front of them , had turned their chairs around to watch me , as if I were a football match . |
| 24 | Otherwise , all is fine in the electrics and wiring departments , although if I were a real fanatic , I would change the switch and possibly the pots for the better , USA variety . |
| 25 | I do n't know , although if I were a rich rock star I 'd probably be on the phone to Mr. Manson before you could say ‘ creative accounting ’ . |
| 26 | The feel is still that of an acoustic , but it 's less stiff and unyielding than the traditional flat-top box — light years away , in fact , from the cheese-grater regime prevalent when I were a lad . |
| 27 | Ivy remarked : ‘ Rose Macaulay asked me if I were a good walker and I said I was . |
| 28 | She gave me all the blobs of cream on the raspberry fool , as if I were a child . |
| 29 | No doubt if I can not break out of the convention of thinking as though I were a detached Ego contemplating unmoved both the possible consequences and my fear of them , it will seem that I can have no reason to stop smoking unless I recognize some further imperative such as ‘ Take care of your health ’ . |
| 30 | If I were a woman I would n't have the slightest interest in it either . |