Example sentences of "if [pron] were [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were wearing a next-to-nothing nightie and he was sitting on my bed , I 'd be having serious trouble breathing too ! |
| 2 | Erm and , and very enjoyable days they were , but erm I think if I were to plan a big party , or an anniversary or something like that , and I 'd hope those would be jolly enjoyable days too . |
| 3 | It 's the sort of ’ You stupid boy , stop trying to drown yourself ’ speech I can imagine I would deliver if I were dragging a recalcitrant lad back to land . |
| 4 | If I were to use a fine grained canvas the paint would become thick and unworkable . |
| 5 | I would not want to change even if I were offered a British-sounding voice . |
| 6 | If I were interviewing a new act , I would try to ascertain their sheer punishment factor . |
| 7 | Commonsense told her that her safety and her sanity could only be assured if she were to put a considerable distance between herself and the cottage . |
| 8 | After many years of steady stage and television work , it was as if she were exploring a rich new emotional seam in her work . |
| 9 | Puts on airs as if she were running a literary salon . ’ |
| 10 | If you were to compare a typical Irish or British magazine of today with its counterpart of say , thirty years ago , one of the most overwhelmingly obvious differences would be in the quality of the photographic material now being used . |
| 11 | It 's just slightly off er , the track at the moment , if you were writing a living assurance plan for someone , and they 'd already got a Covermaster plan , |
| 12 | it 's like writing an essay , you 've got to try and get as mi many things in as you would do when you if you were writing a full essay but instead of writing a paragraph on each thing you write a sentence on each thing try and cover as many bases , then , that 's how you how you get very good marks , it 's not , they are not trying to test your erm your deep knowledge about any one thing in these short answers they are testing the broad , broad venture of your , of your knowledge , alright , so what you want to try and do is to is a blunderbuss approach when you ans you answer these , these questions . |
| 13 | Er , if you were writing a written article , then you may well include references , or sources of information that , that help you write that article . |
| 14 | If you were encountering a tyrannical overlord , what would you do ? |
| 15 | Mm I cer certainly think that 's that 's that 's one way of looking at it , but wh wha what about if if you were take a beautiful scene , the sky on Saturday evening was beautiful . |
| 16 | It is very difficult to design a pressed flower picture on to a background material that has already been printed with a design , and if you were to use a floral fabric it might be hard to spot where your picture stops and the print begins . |
| 17 | If you were to have a new one delivered tomorrow , how would you like to learn how it works ? |
| 18 | What it is le let's just sort of get things , as I say in a new build situation if you were having a new house built |
| 19 | ‘ With Lime Grove then , if you were planning a long shot from any particular place you had to be sure the camera could physically get to that exact spot to take it . |
| 20 | If you step out of line , as I did a couple of times , trying too hard to find out how much money he earns , then he will pull you back and forget it , but you feel that if you were to commit a serious breach then we would not forgive . |
| 21 | If you were to try a new carbon zinc battery on one of these testers , and then an alkaline one , in both cases the needle would bang hard over . |
| 22 | And if you were doing a little programme on , on yogurt and they were sort of going at it absolutely straight for the ‘ You watch this and you 're going to do that and you 're going to do the other ’ . |
| 23 | If you were starting a large factory in Northern Ireland , which features would you expect to depend mainly on links with the UK mainland and which would you expect to obtain easily from within Northern Ireland ? |
| 24 | ‘ If we were to put a full description of the girl , and of the clothes she was wearing , in Saturday 's paper , it might be seen by her parents or someone who knew her . |
| 25 | And they 'd only be significant if we were expecting a significant disproportion anyway |
| 26 | However , the basic grammatical distinctions here are the categories of first , second and third person , If we were producing a Componential analysis ( for which see Lyons , 1968 : 470-81 ) of Pronominal systems , the features that we seem to need for the known systems would crucially include : for first person , speaker inclusion ( + 5 ) ; for second person , addressee inclusion ( + A ) ; and for third Person , speaker and addressee exclusion ( - S , A ) ( see Burling , 1970 : 14-17 ; Ingram , 1978 ) . |
| 27 | If we were to take a formal view of the entailments of such a declarative sentence ( like that , for example , expressed in Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 150f. ) , we would be obliged to accept as entailments a set of sentences which would include the following : |
| 28 | I suspect that if we were to take a sensate tension structure such as the love-hate paradox that lies at the heart of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet theme , we would be able to transpose it into different forms each appropriate to a particular culture , and , provided we had the necessary skill of course , we would be able to do this for all cultures in the world . |
| 29 | These data were essential if we were to undertake a pluralist evaluation ( Smith and Cantley , 1985 ; Room , 1986 ) reflecting the diverse perceptions of the CMHTs and their work . |
| 30 | Everything precise , signed , sealed , filed away , as if we were watching a well-arranged masque . |