Example sentences of "if [pers pn] were [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I never asked her for total commitment ( after all , if I were into monogamy would I have done such a good job of dangling that little Limnititzker tsatskeleh in front of her nose ? ) , but I would have hoped the woman would stand by me in a crisis . |
2 | ‘ If I were on holiday , Nigel would be the first person I 'd contact when I got back . |
3 | He said : ‘ If I were to single out any one project as a model of its kind , it is the car park in Chichester . ’ |
4 | ‘ Well , you see — I thought I explained this to you — if I were to eidetik now I would go into a kind of a trance . |
5 | ‘ I wo n't deny that if I were in London and war broke out I 'd probably join up . |
6 | but you 're on about something else , you said the first thing I 'd do , that 's got nothing to do with Harold Wilson the first thing I if I were in power |
7 | And he could only keep William and stop the court from giving Mummy custody if she were at home to help care for her brother . |
8 | Would it be far-fetched then to see Susan , if she were at home ringing up the Gay Byrne Radio Show to tell him what she saw ? |
9 | Her head was swimming and the floor seemed to be undulating as if she were at sea . |
10 | If she were in bed , none of them would happen . |
11 | If she were in Amy 's position , how much would it matter ? |
12 | My Sophie , for example — if she were in Darcy 's Utopia and in a couple of years were to become a teenage primigravida , which is perfectly on the cards — I reckon the neighbours would know better than Lou or me if she was fit to be a mother or not . |
13 | it was almost as if she were in charge . |
14 | Your working life , for this purpose , is normally considered to be 44 years for a woman and 49 years for a man ( i.e. age 16 until pension age ) , but it may be less if you were of working age but not in insurable employment when the National Insurance Scheme started in 1948 . |
15 | If you were at Manor then and would like to attend a reunion dinner , please contact the General Secretary , care of Manor House . |
16 | ‘ It would n't matter if you were at home and lunch was half an hour late . |
17 | ‘ Would you celebrate if you were at home ? ’ he was asking with that same faraway look in his eyes . |
18 | just what you spent it on as if you were at home . |
19 | What would you do about that if you were at court acting for your client ? that paragraph from the earlier comments . |
20 | But at the interview he said , " I could n't figure out if you were at school or not " , so I told him and he said , " And you 've managed to do your A levels ? " |
21 | If you were at Gatwick recently and wondered why all the planes were taking off and landing on the taxi-way , well it was all because of Rentokil Hygiene . |
22 | If you were at Aurae Phiala this afternoon you probably saw something of a party of schoolboys going round the site with a teacher in charge . |
23 | We used to go once a month you know when the girls were in the Guides , used to go for their parade service and if you were at Auckley , Malcolm and I used to go up with Heidi did n't I ? |
24 | So whatever duty you were on — morning duty , that was all right , it was in the firm 's time , but if you were on afternoon duty , you would have to attend court and maybe go straight on afternoon duty . |
25 | You had this lump of rock that you dangled from a thread and people discovered that it always pointed in the same direction , so if you were on board , a ship for the first time people were able to travel in a ship without having to hug a coast all the way across or navigate to where they could see . |
26 | So if you were on night duty , it was n't much use getting off early and going to bed for a couple of hours and then going to court — you might be engaged in court for a long time . |
27 | And , and even if you were on night duty you 'd be on night duty for twelve hours , you 'd come off at eight in the morning and have to go to a lecture at nine . |
28 | And if you were on night duty you 'd get two nights off , but when you came back you 'd , you 'd , you 'd have to be on duty that night so you 'd have to go to bed that day . |
29 | No medals for having a lock-up if you were on nights . |
30 | It was very inadequate at times , especially in winter if you were on point duty . |