Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a human observer sets out to interpret the " emotions " of a rat what else can he do except say of himself : " Now if I were that rat , how should I feel ? " |
| 2 | You are treating me as if I were another Rosette Fournier . ’ |
| 3 | If I were ten years younger , my girl , I should come and carry you away myself . ’ |
| 4 | If I were growing potatoes , like most sensible gardeners I 'd let them grow . |
| 5 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
| 6 | as if I were some Arab with five gold watches up his arm . ’ |
| 7 | If I was one millionth part of an angel there would be a miracle . |
| 8 | I should have been allowed in if I was five minutes late . |
| 9 | — Mind , if I was fifty years younger I 'd be after him myself ! — A right charmer and no mistake ! ’ |
| 10 | I said to him , if I was fifty years younger . |
| 11 | Richard and I thought you had settled so nicely ’ — as if I was some sort of jelly — and then , ‘ Well , if you really want to , I suppose it would be nice for you to earn a little pin money . ’ |
| 12 | Three figures , their faces muffled by cloaks and broad-brimmed hats , seized me and began to beat me as if I was some dog . |
| 13 | If I was 12 years old I 'd be squealing in the stalls as well . |
| 14 | " If I was full time , I 'd be taking home £40 a week , " said a Sheffield hotel worker who is also a single parent . |
| 15 | It was as if I was another man . |
| 16 | She 's finally abandoned any fantasies that if she were five foot two and blonde , life as an actress might be easier . |
| 17 | Benny felt as if she were eight years of age again , instead of almost eighteen . |
| 18 | Settling back against the pillows , he drew her against him and , holding her as if she were egg-shell china , cradled her head on his chest . |
| 19 | Miranda had remained quietly on the stool looking at her fat knees , as if she were happy doing so , until one of the shopgirls in costume jewellery leaned over the counter and said , through scarlet lips , ‘ Where 's your mummy gone to then ? ’ |
| 20 | She had no objection to working for her keep , but if Penry Vaughan went on treating her as if she were some kind of serf she 'd stick to plain , basic cooking from now on , she thought resentfully . |
| 21 | Kandinskaya watched her as if she were some lab specimen but eight months of training had taught Jezrael techniques that smoothed her responses to a minimum . |
| 22 | He released her , his fingers still loosely in the escaped strands of her hair , staring at her as blankly as if she were some phantom being from another incarnation , a mythical seductress beamed unexpectedly into the passenger seat of his car . |
| 23 | I knew her for months before she admitted , in a low voice , what her job was — as if she were some sort of traitor to society . |
| 24 | After soaping her every nook and cranny , he rinsed her , and kissed her body reverently as if she were some deity to be worshipped and adored . |
| 25 | If she were several sizes larger she could have them . ’ |
| 26 | He could n't be sure she would have the heart to go on running racehorses if she were forced to believe Harry a murderer … if she thought he had left her without warning , without a note , if she were worried sick by not knowing where he 'd gone , and was also haunted by the thought of Harry with Angela Brickell . ’ |
| 27 | She had recovered her figure after the birth of both her children very quickly , but now it looked as if she was four months pregnant . |
| 28 | She felt certain then that he must be thinking that if she was any sort of a journalist that she could do quite a write-up out of the considerable time she had just spent walking in his sole company . |
| 29 | Yeah but if she was proper vegetarian she would n't eat cheese . |
| 30 | When Jerry and I were young if at the end of the month there was no money in the account the bank used to write you a filthy letter if you were two pounds overdrawn . |