Example sentences of "if [pers pn] be [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , if yours is a worldwide practice , and the person leaving has contacts with clients in many countries , it may be reasonable for the clause to extend throughout the world . |
| 2 | This is an especially good way to work if yours is a basic machine without a ribber and you have decided to work the ribs by hand . |
| 3 | Shared nannies are becoming more popular and other children can provide stimulation and company if yours is an only child . |
| 4 | Now if I am a good reporter , in a sense I 'm going to let the original question flow past me as a starter , I may use it , I may not use it . |
| 5 | However , if I am a regular customer and the stall owner gives me credit because I happen to be short of cash , I do have an obligation to come back . |
| 6 | If I am a social worker , I am doing an injustice to my profession . |
| 7 | The big spender asks if I am the new man . |
| 8 | I am always and everywhere his place ; if I am the barren land he thinks to water into an oasis I am also the blight on his crops and the locust destroying grain ; I am both the ruined harvest and the shameful blood that sickens cattle . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | If I were a simple man . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Later on , backstage , I am greeted with enthusiasm , as if I were a long-lost friend or something . |
| 14 | But you 've worked me harder than any donkey and you 've let Tom , Amos and Oseri bait me as if I were a chained bear . " |
| 15 | ‘ When I am shaving in the morning I say to myself that if I were a young man I would emigrate . |
| 16 | As I said , if I were a young man , I should emigrate . ’ |
| 17 | Ivy remarked : ‘ Rose Macaulay asked me if I were a good walker and I said I was . |
| 18 | I give you my word … right through me as if I were a bloody ghost . |
| 19 | It was as if I were a mindless pin , being drawn through a magnetic field . |
| 20 | They smiled at me , as if I were a favourite daughter . |
| 21 | If I were a head teacher or a chair of governors now , I would use quite blatantly the annual meeting and the annual report as ways of sounding the loudest and brightest clarion calls about my school 's performance and achievements … |
| 22 | If I were a free agent , I 'd rattle her faithless bones like the bars of a cage . |
| 23 | But if I were a free agent , I think what I 'd do now is keep Rainbow hammering away at this lost cause just long enough to put the wind up those damned smug ben Issachars . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They account for our general sense of the appropriacy and inappropriacy of language as reflected in impromptu observations about style , varying from Queen Victoria 's remark on Mr Gladstone that " he speaks to Me as if I were a public meeting " , to more everyday comments like " No one would ever speak like that " , and to attributions like colloquial , journalistic , biblical , childlike , pedantic . |
| 26 | I changed into Tommy 's uniform in my roomette and went along to the dining car where Emil , Oliver and Cathy welcomed me casually as if I were an accepted part of the crew . |
| 27 | Still encased in the net , I was dropped on the ground as if I were an old plank . |
| 28 | ‘ If I were the spluttering type , which I 'm not , this would be a sure fire-starter . ’ |
| 29 | If I was a young mother I 'd write in and demand re-runs of Joseph Losey movies or continuous showings of Jewel in the Crown , but then I 'd never get to learn about biological cleaners working at low temperatures . |
| 30 | as I said yesterday , if I was a betting man , I would n't have bet on getting anything actually , erm , and the partnership between the County Council and , and the District Council have put together the bid for objective two status in Telford . |