Example sentences of "if i [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were to turn to a man on a bench |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It 's a shameful fact , but here it is : if I were squashed under a bus tomorrow , my relations would have to hold a seance to find out how I wanted to settle my affairs . |
| 4 | When I returned to Moose Jaw about mid-August I had a long talk with Fred Workman , who told me he had noticed a certain restlessness in me as if I were hoping for a change of scene . |
| 5 | If I were looking for a record deal , I would be pursuing individual A&R people , getting them to come and see my band . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ However , what upsets me is that I have heard unconfirmed rumours that some of the riders were threatening to pull out if I were put in the third row of the grid as was at first planned . |
| 8 | My heart was behaving as if I were going before a judge . |
| 9 | If I 'd a , if I were walking down the street going Nigger ! sorry ! |
| 10 | I 'm about to invest in a brand new , superduper , anti-obsolescence computer and I feel as confident as if I were shopping for a pair of skis . |
| 11 | I dropped my right wing suddenly as if I were turning into the cloud and immediately swung over into a steep left hand turn . |
| 12 | I wonder if the Secretary of the Cabinet would go into the box if I were found outside the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 13 | I could never replace you … never find your equal if I were to look until the very day I die . ’ |
| 14 | There was no sandy beach , and as this part of the bay was an inlet , I felt as if I were standing beside a great lake , not the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 15 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 16 | I remember absolutely one hundred percent doing that , and I have to say that if I was faced with a similar situation again of a naked man , I really do n't know if I 'd bother to put his trousers on . |
| 17 | You wanted to wake up with him right there in the room and to turn to him and quote the next line of the film right back at him , to whisper it to him , make me almost believe that we are a pair of young lovers without any shame , and I do n't mean that in some tragedy queen way , but in order to say of Boy that truly I do think that it is a beauty like his that makes it all worth while , and I do feel that if we are fighting for anything , and if I was asked in a questionnaire what it was I was fighting for ( and believe me I do feel like I am fighting , more and more I think that ) , then I would answer , beauty . |
| 18 | We well ye yes I can but er obviously er I , I , I sha n't be doing because erm I 've got too many er hopefully too ma d it 's much better , it would have been much better if I was living in a home , you see where , where we can |
| 19 | And occasionally if I was looking for a magazine to buy , it would get a lot of i good information in it too . |
| 20 | At £12,260 the Aura TD is not particularly cheap but it would certainly be near the top of my shopping list if I was looking for a medium-sized diesel hatchback . |
| 21 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 22 | If I was injured in an accident , he would do for me . ’ |
| 23 | If I was born on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh right , no if I was born on the eleventh about nineteen hundred , then on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh , announce , that 's when I was born zero , six , six , eleventh , eleventh , sixty-six , I was eleven on the eleventh of the eleventh of seventy-seven , I was , I was twenty-two on the eleventh of the eleventh , eighty-eight , I was thirty-three on the eleventh of the eleventh noticed how they 're all double all the way through |
| 24 | If I was born on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh right , no if I was born on the eleventh about nineteen hundred , then on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh , announce , that 's when I was born zero , six , six , eleventh , eleventh , sixty-six , I was eleven on the eleventh of the eleventh of seventy-seven , I was , I was twenty-two on the eleventh of the eleventh , eighty-eight , I was thirty-three on the eleventh of the eleventh noticed how they 're all double all the way through |
| 25 | So er well If you want to tell me , if I was starting as a riveter boy , right , if I was wanting to start as a riveter boy , what would I do ? |
| 26 | Well I think you should join up because something 's put in the middle but depends in a game If I was playing against a level player you might just have a very hard crack together , but just to join up gently in the middle . |
| 27 | ‘ If I was approached by a terrorist to undermine the Bank of England , my immediate reaction would be to tell the police . |
| 28 | Now I never if I was going through a train or going down a platform , and there were two or three carriage women carriage cleaners you know , I would n't speak to them about their work . |
| 29 | so , if I was to walk into the place that was selling these |
| 30 | The nurse called my name ; I walked into the consulting room , flashing a worn , mechanical smile , but feeling as if I was walking onto the stage at the National without my trousers . |