Example sentences of "if [pers pn] 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 | She 's finally abandoned any fantasies that if she were five foot two and blonde , life as an actress might be easier . |
| 8 | Benny felt as if she were eight years of age again , instead of almost eighteen . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If she were several sizes larger she could have them . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You would not be afraid of any other country , if you were peaceful people . |
| 20 | Some screws were more lenient than others and you learned when you saw who came round to wake you up how much you had to hurry — whether it was one who 'd put you on report if you were one minute late or if they would give you five minutes ' grace . |
| 21 | ‘ If you were that fancy , we 'd have heard about you . ’ |
| 22 | Erm yes if you were that if you were that building |
| 23 | If you were good friends with another lass , you would get each other 's names put on . |
| 24 | And if you were used Orkneyisms you were a very poor scholar indeed . |
| 25 | ‘ Jaysus is n't that great , if you were six years older I 'd take you into Shea 's and put you up on my knee and buy you a gin and it . ’ |
| 26 | It made you know you were special , as if you were secret agents in a hostile land . |
| 27 | If you were three feet shorter , I might mistake you for Grumpy sometimes , ’ she ventured . |
| 28 | Those of you who know York will perhaps remember that you used to have to duck if you were any height at all to get underneath there , well you do n't now . |
| 29 | ‘ If you were Free People and you wanted to strike a shocking , symbolic blow at the family — something that everyone in the country would feel — which family would you bomb ? ’ |
| 30 | Surely he would n't do that if you were both daggers drawn . ’ |