Example sentences of "i [was/were] a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were a man I 'd tell me to get lost — and fast ! |
| 2 | ‘ If I were a man , ’ she snapped furiously , ‘ you 'd find yourself lucky to get away with a bloody nose . |
| 3 | If I were a man you would n't dare do this ! ’ |
| 4 | Even if I were a man of deep sensibility and tact — and it sounds pretty wimpish to me ! — I still needed a good night 's sleep . |
| 5 | ‘ If I was a man , I believe you 'd be having an affair with me . |
| 6 | ‘ I still think you 'd be having an affair with me if I was a man , ’ she said . |
| 7 | Now I was a man of property , the joint owner of a large house in North Oxford , with investments so extensive I had no detailed idea of their scope and access to current and deposit accounts totalling well into six figures . |
| 8 | Take Lao-Tse 's celebrated question : ‘ If when I was asleep I was a man dreaming I was a butterfly , how do I know when I am awake that I am not a butterfly dreaming I am a man ? ’ |
| 9 | 1 wish I was a man . |
| 10 | One night I dreamed I was a butterfly and , upon waking , was never able to discern whether I was a man who had dreamed that he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming that he was a man . |
| 11 | Such were the times , and what was more I was a man with a foreign passport and working in an embassy , and that made it much harder for me to collect . |
| 12 | If I was a man and I thought the only way to get my jollies was by coughing up for a woman 's veal in a sorrel coulis , I would be suicidal . |
| 13 | I was a man of substance now , I had arrived . |
| 14 | ‘ Nothing in my letter suggested I was a man . |
| 15 | No being what I thought I was a man in those days I was n't really interested in them , but I know there was competitions and er I believe there was different numbers posted on windows and if you got the right number you got a prize but I remember Palfry Park I 'm having trouble with my eyes I 've got over-active tear ducts and |
| 16 | And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’ |