Example sentences of "i [was/were] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " A likely thing it would be if I were to give a drink of milk to every beggar who passed through ! " exclaimed the second brother . |
| 2 | There is enough in evidence here to convince me that if I were to submit a checklist to Jimmy Moon the resulting guitar would be a very fine instrument indeed . |
| 3 | ‘ So if I were to screen a feature film for you , and in it there was a scene that took place with two characters talking on a sofa , you would be able to tell me whether there was an object lying behind it ? ’ |
| 4 | If I were to ask a school-teacher to choose for me a sample which she considered to be a fair cross-section of her pupils so that I could interview them for a survey , there would almost certainly be a personal bias in the sample given to me . |
| 5 | But , if I were to identify a trend , I would do so on a retailing analogy . |
| 6 | If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes . |
| 7 | ‘ If I were to have a child . |
| 8 | So that is another area that if I was to put a ban on imports |
| 9 | If I was to do a file combine add again . |
| 10 | But before Burma I was to serve a curacy in East London at Stepney parish church for two years . |
| 11 | I was to spend a month there during the toppling of President Sukarno , while bloody revolution raged beyond the ashram walls , hoardings displayed anti-Western hate propaganda , and the British embassy was fire-bombed . |
| 12 | On 29 April 1988 , when both the Kingman Report was published and the membership of my Working Group announced , the press presumed that I was to lead a Group which would make firm recommendations on grammar , in contrast to the equivocations of Kingman . |
| 13 | Later I was to meet a woman at the Bristol Cancer Help Centre who did n't want her youngest child to know what she had . |
| 14 | I can remember them clearly because they were so much more optimistic than those I was to have a year later . |
| 15 | I was to have a day 's rest . |
| 16 | But in a little while I knew I was to have a child . ’ |
| 17 | I was to have a blood transfusion before he could operate . |
| 18 | But in a brand new fitted dress into which I 'd climbed only two hours earlier , and in which I 'd never attempted the sitting position let alone … well to cut a long and visually absurd story short , I was about as likely to have a pee in that dress as I was to share a bagel with Adnan Kashoggi . |
| 19 | Erm I think that 's that worked quite well but there is a bit of I I suspect if I was to show a video every week there 's a reluctance th for people to want to pay me in a sense . |
| 20 | Here , in addition to a solid training and discipline for a priest , I was to get a widening and somewhat disturbing understanding of the task of a missionary . |
| 21 | ‘ I always give 110 per cent and that 's why fans at most clubs would want me to play for their teams if I was to get a move from Arsenal . ’ |
| 22 | If I was to get a job outside of the centre [ occupational day centre ] now and retired at 65 what would be the point of me getting a job ? ’ |