Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These women ran and organized all the groups and I remember often being approached as if I were a rare species of animal . |
| 2 | ‘ You question me as though I were a pedlar but you do not tell me what you are doing in the forest . |
| 3 | 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 . " |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ivy remarked : ‘ Rose Macaulay asked me if I were a good walker and I said I was . |
| 6 | As I , as I said earlier the new boy , the rather elderly new boy but I can assure the Professor if I were a hundred years old I 'd still be younger than 'im . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | A bookmark showed the page : ‘ J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans ’ — ‘ I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ When I am shaving in the morning I say to myself that if I were a young man I would emigrate . |
| 10 | As I said , if I were a young man , I should emigrate . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I wish I were a young girl again , wild and free , out on the moors with Heathcliff ! |
| 12 | But by golly I 'm living as though I were a young woman . |
| 13 | I give you my word … right through me as if I were a bloody ghost . |
| 14 | Later on , backstage , I am greeted with enthusiasm , as if I were a long-lost friend or something . |
| 15 | If I were a simple man . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | I think if I were a fledgling esoteric , with a nose for history , it would n't be difficult to turn up details of what was attempted — the experiment as Bloxham called it — and maybe get it into my head that the time was right to try again . ’ |
| 18 | If I were a free agent , I 'd rattle her faithless bones like the bars of a cage . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 … |
| 21 | I were a little bit shocked when I saw Tony though . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | It was as if I were a mindless pin , being drawn through a magnetic field . |
| 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 | And that at least is true , he thought , because if I were a crippled old man living on an early pension filtered through the Secret Vote — and thus controllable — I would n't want any whisper of indiscretion getting back to the Service . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They were tied with white ribbons , as if , she thought contemptuously , I were a silly young girl . |
| 28 | But suppose now suppose I were a middle-aged to elderly teacher who had never come across dyslexia until recently and was now aware that he or she had dyslexic pupils , the first thing to do , I think , is to inform yourself . |
| 29 | They smiled at me , as if I were a favourite daughter . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |