Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [was/were] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | A bookmark showed the page : ‘ J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans ’ — ‘ I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old . ’ |
| 3 | If I were a simple man . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Later on , backstage , I am greeted with enthusiasm , as if I were a long-lost friend or something . |
| 7 | These women ran and organized all the groups and I remember often being approached as if I were a rare species of animal . |
| 8 | 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 . " |
| 9 | As I , as I said earlier the new boy , the rather elderly new boy but I can assure the Professor if I were a hundred years old I 'd still be younger than 'im . |
| 10 | ‘ When I am shaving in the morning I say to myself that if I were a young man I would emigrate . |
| 11 | As I said , if I were a young man , I should emigrate . ’ |
| 12 | Ivy remarked : ‘ Rose Macaulay asked me if I were a good walker and I said I was . |
| 13 | I give you my word … right through me as if I were a bloody ghost . |
| 14 | It was as if I were a mindless pin , being drawn through a magnetic field . |
| 15 | They smiled at me , as if I were a favourite daughter . |
| 16 | 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 … |
| 17 | I think if I were a fledgling esoteric , with a nose for history , it would n't be difficult to turn up details of what was attempted — the experiment as Bloxham called it — and maybe get it into my head that the time was right to try again . ’ |
| 18 | If I were a free agent , I 'd rattle her faithless bones like the bars of a cage . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And that at least is true , he thought , because if I were a crippled old man living on an early pension filtered through the Secret Vote — and thus controllable — I would n't want any whisper of indiscretion getting back to the Service . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Those People treated me as if I were no better than an animal . |
| 24 | He bent , seized my wrist , and dragged me towards him as if I were no more than a doll . |
| 25 | I insisted on paying the bill and on opening the door for her as if I were an ordinary gallant . |
| 26 | I changed into Tommy 's uniform in my roomette and went along to the dining car where Emil , Oliver and Cathy welcomed me casually as if I were an accepted part of the crew . |
| 27 | Still encased in the net , I was dropped on the ground as if I were an old plank . |
| 28 | as if I were the current — |
| 29 | ‘ If I were the spluttering type , which I 'm not , this would be a sure fire-starter . ’ |
| 30 | She rushed away before anyone could stop her , rushed too quickly to hear Carlo say , I do n't know , I think if I were the beautiful Katherine 's mother , I might suffer the occasional twinge of jealousy . ’ |