Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | If I were to ask you for your address , what would you do ? |
2 | If I were to put it in er stewed apples or something I would n't eat the actual ginger but in a casserole , it 's nice . |
3 | Some of you er may take it amiss if I were to describe you as veterans but my by contrast , this is my first annual public meeting and not just as chairman . |
4 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |
5 | The day before the dinner I received word from the admiral 's ADC that if I were to present myself at 6.55 p.m. at his suite in the Gosforth Park Hotel , where we were both staying , he would give me a lift to the dockyard . |
6 | It has so much depth , much more than if I were to express myself in other languages . |
7 | Fine er what we 're , what we 're saying to you basically is , right , and , and another thing you 're doing is proving that you 're capable of doing it , now if I was training you from cold , right , and you had n't done it |
8 | If I was phoning you from Publishing and I phoned up G A |
9 | I have to pay 80p for one piece of Vallis , Cabomba etc at any of the fish centres in this part of the world and £1.50 each if I was to buy them in the little pots . |
10 | If I was interviewing you as an , as a member of the institution as a , a local spokesman |
11 | if I was recording you at this precise moment ? |
12 | I mean , all I use I mean , if I was making them for somebody I would use about four or five layers and then I would put a piece of lace of braid or something at the top |
13 | At one point Eva turned and gesticulated towards me , as if she were taking him to task for something he 'd done to me . |
14 | Though she could never let him know it , he already possessed her heart ; if she were to give herself to him body and soul , at least the memories would be rich and ultimately fulfilling . |
15 | On the bus home that day , she wondered what her parents would have to say , if she were to ask them about it . |
16 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
17 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
18 | He felt the moistness , felt the narrow aperture , then slowly , her eyes never leaving his , she lowered herself down as if she were impaling herself on his flesh . |
19 | The last thing in the world she had thought of becoming was a parson 's wife , and if she were to consider it for any length of time she would refuse through lack of courage . |
20 | Gaston , the committee man , who had been eyeing Ingrid the entire evening , trying to discern if she was wearing anything at all under the gold waistcoat , hurried over and pulled her to her feet . |
21 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
22 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
23 | The lecherous Cohn once used his intercom to address an embarrassed starlet when he asked her if she was keeping herself in a state of sexual readiness for him . |
24 | Er , if you was to put everything on top of each other , for example , then erm , there 's probably little gaps between one section and another , and those little gaps are using extra memory . |
25 | If you were to define it in your mind as — " bottom of wings on top of bar " — you would be more likely to recognise that the actual attitude was , or was not , accurate . |
26 | The only problem was the London Paddington to Liverpool train did n't run from the expected start station , it started from Reading instead of from Paddington , so if you were expecting somebody on that train , well they may not have , may not have been on that one if they er were actually starting from Paddington , otherwise no problems on the buses . |
27 | If you were to compare it with a really accurate map there would be very little in common but the map achieves its aim successfully through massive simplification and artificial emphasis of the important features , in this case the stations and interchanges . |
28 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
29 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
30 | But I can only retrieve her lips , those lightly ribbed , juicy lips , studded and patterned in close-up like a mulberry or a raspberry , their almost leathery texture if you were to brush them with your fingertips or tongue tip ( that snaky little organ equipped with ideas of its own ) . |