Example sentences of "[pers pn] were a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . " |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ivy remarked : ‘ Rose Macaulay asked me if I were a good walker and I said I was . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I wish I were a young girl again , wild and free , out on the moors with Heathcliff ! |
| 6 | ‘ When I am shaving in the morning I say to myself that if I were a young man I would emigrate . |
| 7 | As I said , if I were a young man , I should emigrate . ’ |
| 8 | But by golly I 'm living as though I were a young woman . |
| 9 | I give you my word … right through me as if I were a bloody ghost . |
| 10 | Later on , backstage , I am greeted with enthusiasm , as if I were a long-lost friend or something . |
| 11 | If I were a simple man . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | If I were a free agent , I 'd rattle her faithless bones like the bars of a cage . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 … |
| 16 | I were a little bit shocked when I saw Tony though . |
| 17 | It was as if I were a mindless pin , being drawn through a magnetic field . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They smiled at me , as if I were a favourite daughter . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Sit down , ’ he repeated , his tone gentling her as though she were a wounded animal . |
| 23 | She were a fine-looking animal , and she 'd always give us trouble — but she could n't help it , poor owd gel . |
| 24 | Now her self-confidence fled as he raised his hat , gazing at her as if she were a total stranger . |
| 25 | Furious at being treated as if she were a brainless bimbo , she raised her eyebrows , giving him back such a measured look that he actually coloured a little and moved away . |
| 26 | If she were a good spit and-polish balabosteh like her Aunt Minna , where would I be now ? |
| 27 | On the instant , as if she were a hot coal , his hands dropped away from her . |
| 28 | The youths , being Moslems , were not having this from any woman , even if she were a great lady , and things would have gone ill for Zeinab if Owen had not arrived at that moment , on his way to her flat . |
| 29 | Yet he would cosset Rebecca as if she were a tender plant that needed nurturing . |
| 30 | In such a situation of role confusion and role strains a person at the end of the line is not disposed to react to new policy initiatives from above as if he or she were a mere functionary . |