Example sentences of "[be] [subord] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's alright as long as it does n't get to be like I said it could , these are lovely stamps you know |
| 2 | I was thinking how funny it would be if I had switched the smoked salmon for ham . |
| 3 | Actually , the best thing would be if I could get back to you . |
| 4 | So I must restate the question as ‘ What would my priorities be if I were now what the Minister of Health was then ? ’ |
| 5 | The best feeling would be if I could just dismiss everyone else from my mind . |
| 6 | What a sad creature I 'd be if I could n't promise future children black , peaty lochans full of newts , hillsides teeming with deer , hares and stoats and skies full of soaring majestic birds . |
| 7 | He asked himself , I wonder what this old warrior 's reaction would be if I told him I had fallen in love with a married woman ? |
| 8 | You soon will be if I have any of your insolence . |
| 9 | What would my attitude be if I had a difficult or long journey to work ? |
| 10 | ‘ How would it be if I returned your gift so that you can give it at the door ? ’ |
| 11 | And she would be if I could have a woman come in to scrub the floors . ’ |
| 12 | Maybe I 'm being a bit more tolerant towards him than I would be if I had n't met him . |
| 13 | My parents and I saw her in the school play and they thought she was so wonderful that they invited her to lunch — to make me see what I could be if I did it right . |
| 14 | Notice how this is beautifully covered with my fingerprints now which it would n't be if I was handling it properly . |
| 15 | My good sister , how happy should I be if I might be admitted to a conversation with you at your grate . |
| 16 | " A likely thing it would be if I were to give a drink of milk to every beggar who passed through ! " exclaimed the second brother . |
| 17 | The the sort of thing that that I would be if I were in running your function Terry , would be to say , look at this package that we 've developed for P T E stations . |
| 18 | ‘ I would n't be if I 'd just lost twenty million , ’ Plummer said humourlessly . |
| 19 | ‘ I agree , ’ he said , to her surprise , ‘ but until the baby is safely born she needs Garry at her side , and that 's where he 'll be if I have anything to do with it . ’ |
| 20 | I will be if I have the strength . |
| 21 | I dared not think how he would be if I went back then so I had to go on . |
| 22 | He 'd then possibly forgotten these dreams or fantasies and then when the stimulus of feeling something on the back of his neck happened to him whilst asleep , suddenly the fantasy came back , all as a piece as it were , and it occurred to me that your dream about driving off viaducts might be caused by being asleep , having one of these falling experiences , then relating it to previous thoughts you 'd had , you know on the freeway or something , oh my God , how awful it would be if I , if I drove off that bend below , do you know what I mean ? |
| 23 | I 'm more than willing to carve my own career — I 'm raring to go , at least I shall be if I get my degree and if I can shake off this horrible mononucleosis , as Dr Newne pompously insists on calling it ! |
| 24 | At least it would be if I could get into it . |
| 25 | I says no I ca n't , he says it 's not very far , I said it 's not the distance that bothers me it 's the fact that you want us to sit there till eleven o'clock at night and not get paid for it , he says yeah but if you want to say something , I says I 'd say something if I thought we 'd be backed on it , but we 're not , oh I 'm not going anywhere to be if I 'm not being paid |
| 26 | I would be if I did that , if I just did n't eat . |
| 27 | Well it must be cos I , I put salt on it , I thought myself you got the salt and have some more salt |
| 28 | As for what subject , I 'm not sure what it 's gon na be cos I 've got ta pass in the |
| 29 | That 's how I used to be until I had my brain overhaused last year . |
| 30 | But I do n't know what it 'll be until I begin work . ’ |