Example sentences of "if [pron] be [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can tell you this much , if I were Lionel Dunbar , I 'd have packed her in months ago . |
| 2 | If I were William Styron , the third speaker , I 'd keep my head down . |
| 3 | If I were Russia , that 's what I 'd do , just to keep up appearances I mean , you ca n't let the word start to get about . |
| 4 | If I were Mrs Douglas and had put up with years of a philandering , self-important husband I think I might consider I was more deserving than him of the luxury away-from-it-all fortnight 's vacation . |
| 5 | On balance , though , if I were Burnham , I think I 'd rather stand accused of Intent to Titillate than Gross Inattention . |
| 6 | But if I were Ben Hogan , and a Bob Hamilton or Willie Goggin chipped in to beat me in The Masters , a Walter Burkemo holed a sand shot to swipe the PGA , a raw rookie — pick one — holed a 7-iron to beat me somewhere in Florida and then the like of a Bud Holscher or a Shelley Mayfield holed yet another sand shot to steal yet another victory , then I 'd not only be scouring the Fort Worth Yellow Pages looking for the nearest shrink , I might even think of tossing myself under a freight train in the nearest marshalling yard . |
| 7 | The snag is it could be almost anyone , and if I were Neneh Cherry or Stock , Aitken or Waterman , I do n't think I 'd be losing sleep over it . |
| 8 | Now if I were Alwyn I would not be too proud of winning a competition to see who could use more cliches than anyone else . |
| 9 | ‘ If I were Jerry , ’ said Finlayson , ‘ I 'd go for the France . |
| 10 | ‘ If I were Newley , I 'd want to know for certain , even if I intended to go through with the deal . ’ |
| 11 | For the sake of his usefulness he might , or for his own honour he might , but if I were de Guichet I 'd never feel sure of it . |
| 12 | If I were Souness I 'd go for the Charles Bronson option . |
| 13 | If I were Harold of Wessex , which I 'm glad I 'm not , I should send a polite embassy soon , preferably under Bishop Ealdred ; to extract the child before someone else has a better idea . |
| 14 | If I was Madonna I would probably have shown it to you . |
| 15 | If I was Madonna I would probably have shown it to you . |
| 16 | If I was Peter Reid , I would be screaming blue murder to get this player . ’ |
| 17 | If I was Wyatt Earp I 'd have shot the four of them . |
| 18 | Bartenders , hoteliers and B-girls kept asking me if I was Tunney 's brother . |
| 19 | ‘ If I was Sam , I 'd want to achieve a better car , ’ Jazz said . |
| 20 | The man came back to the telephone and said that if I was Linford Christie I was to go in and see them . |
| 21 | If I was Kendall , I 'd also take any sensible cash offer for latest arrival Paul Rideout . |
| 22 | As for my room , well , if I was Jimmy Page I would definitely say ‘ Too rococo ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ If I was Intel and I looked at how many processors I was able to sell and the limited market for the Pentium , initially , I would probably focus on the 486 this year as well . ’ |
| 24 | Two weeks in a semi-finished house , with a man who does n't give a damn about appearances have worked their magic , and I do n't know if I 'm Cinderella now or the pumpkin , but I 'm certainly not the obnoxious girl who arrived here a fortnight ago . |
| 25 | Like you said , I need to know if I 'm Robbie Gray or Robbie Cullen . |
| 26 | If I 'm Toad as Kenenth Grahame was sometimes then it 's a vain and conceited thing to do . |
| 27 | I have a Jamaican friend , she says there should be no difference if someone is West Indian , Indian or African , we are all black . |
| 28 | ‘ Send the girl in ; we shall soon know if she 's Sally-Anne . |
| 29 | ‘ If she 's Nora Fanshawe , sir , who , for God 's sake , was the girl in the road ? ’ |
| 30 | She started to cry with happy relief and Hepzibah put her mending aside and took her on to her lap as if she were Nick . |