Example sentences of "i [was/were] [to-vb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is done to allow them time to come back gradually to a state of full alertness without any sense of shock — but it would be just as effective if I were to snap my fingers or even simply to tell them to ‘ wake up ’ . |
| 2 | It would be quite wrong if I were to base my view solely on submissions from members of the public who have been unduly influenced by misleading information from other quarters . |
| 3 | I mean , if I were to sell my house now supposing somebody came galloping in along before Christmas ooh ooh I want the house on the first of Feb and they 'd come and they 'd see the house and they say yes I want it , want it , want it and it was plain that they were going to want it and we started to talk money , as soon as we 'd got the solid block of money I want one O two you er estate agent tells me I can get ninety seven between ninety five and ninety seven say they offer me ninety six |
| 4 | If I were to question its authority , and find a nurse to look after me , I would no longer be doing anything on my own responsibility , and problems of valuation would in any case no longer concern me . |
| 5 | No doubt some will defend the right to march on grounds of civil liberties for they will swiftly perceive that if I were to get my way , all kinds of trade union demonstrations to say nothing of peace marches would fall under the ban . |
| 6 | There was no more time for sight-seeing if I were to catch my train , but the helpful Matthews told me of martyr Sir Oliver Plunkett 's head , preserved in a church at Drogheda . |
| 7 | However , perhaps if I were to concentrate my efforts on finding an emergent path for your good self , I would be successful . |
| 8 | If I were to make my decision obviously |
| 9 | I was to see her years later , and talk much of Eliot , they were fellow-citizens of St Louis , Missouri , and almost of the same age . |
| 10 | If I was to give my life to this orchestra then I could not allow that someone throw me out at a moment 's notice . |
| 11 | ‘ If I was to fill your mother 's place — the Lord have mercy on her soul — with someone new , ’ he amended . |
| 12 | If I was to pop my clogs at work or any time you 'd get fifty five thousand eight hundred eighty pounds . |
| 13 | If I turned the job down , I was to keep my mouth shut . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I knew that I had to be the best at everything if I was to haul my family out of the financial trouble they were in . |
| 15 | If I was to break my leg tomorrow I 'd be as sick as a parrot , but it would n't be the end of the world . |
| 16 | That patience must have been well-schooled here , and I would need lots of it myself if I was to follow her tracks from card to cryptic card through all the boxes . |
| 17 | In Harrogate I was to meet my editor for a pep talk . |
| 18 | I was to have my freedom of choice , too . |
| 19 | With that she saw me off with an invitation to visit her the next day after school but that I was to tell my parents in case they were worried where I was . |
| 20 | I was to learn his name later , |
| 21 | I was to hear his name again and again . |
| 22 | She was jealous that I was to bear her husband 's son — I could not hate her for that . |
| 23 | Eventually I protested so Father Prior took me for a walk in the meadows and said I was to prove my worth with one final task . ’ |
| 24 | He said : ‘ I play basketball twice a week and I had four days ’ notice that I was to get my chance , so I had four days ' practice . |
| 25 | I was to get his job — and now I was to drive him home to Bristol . |
| 26 | Certainly it would be most unsatisfactory if I was to get your comments on Wednesday , so that the Councils could n't reply to them . |
| 27 | ‘ I was to work my passage . ’ |