Example sentences of "[pers pn] be a [noun] [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'm a teacher I would rather teach ‘ See Jane run … … ’ to a million people on the road to thinking and articulating themselves , instead of just one individual . |
| 2 | If I were a girl I would n't let a man go near me ! |
| 3 | If I were a man you would n't dare do this ! ’ |
| 4 | If I were a fox I would prefer to take the chance of a twenty second chop by hounds . |
| 5 | If I were a doctor I would have been happy to stay in Calcutta and work alongside British doctor , Jack Pregar , and his clinic in Middleton Row . |
| 6 | If I were a teacher I would cook up some real scorchers for the children of doting parents . |
| 7 | They looked about ten , with long hair , both so brown and handsome I could have hugged them ; if I were a woman I would have made a date with them for ten years ' time . |
| 8 | If I were a woman I would n't have the slightest interest in it either . |
| 9 | If I was a scientist it would be like finding a cure for for a disease or a technological breakthrough . |
| 10 | ‘ Put it this way , if I was a woman I would like to bear his children , ’ said Depressed Milkman supremo Ged Backland , who has stayed on the right side of the copyright laws by using a pencil drawing of the Bettabuys boss . |
| 11 | ‘ If I was a dog you would n't let me . |
| 12 | ‘ When I was a lad I would go down there with him . |
| 13 | I waited till we heard him on the stairs , then told them how I had offered to drive this run , but now that I was a passenger it would be against the rules . |
| 14 | IF I was an Australian I would be thinking very hard about it . |
| 15 | And if you were a a lecturer in politics and you went to see this play then you might think oh look oh and then you 'd start thinking and if you were a scientist you would think about it in another way and if you were an artist you 'd think about it in another way . |
| 16 | An example of this differential sentencing policy was reported in the Guardian 18 August , 1980 , which quoted a male judge , who told a female defendant , ‘ If you were a man I would send you to prison without hesitation ’ . |
| 17 | If you were , if you were a castratie what would you do for a living ? |
| 18 | If she was a witch she would be good at that , too . |
| 19 | At 18 she went to East Anglia University in Norwich to study English and American Studies but there was little sign then that she was a girl who would go far . |
| 20 | Kate was a woman in every sense of the word , and she was a woman who would not give herself to a man lightly . |
| 21 | Well if she was a vegan she would n't eat cheese . |
| 22 | If she was a horse I would n't buy her … not on looks … have to be performance . " |
| 23 | And I will be bold to say I am honest , though poor , and if you was a prince it would not be otherwise . |
| 24 | Had it been a ploy it would have been a rewarding one , but Vanessa was not given to ploys . |
| 25 | If he were a poet he would write a poem to that glimpse of bare ankle . |
| 26 | Having heard that , and secondly due to your patience er through your patience getting clarification that it the borough could if it wished allocate its sixty hectares under this structure plan policy outside the town centres and that things that then took place in town centres would be extra , it 's not something they have to do but it 's a freedom they would have in their local plan , having heard those two things , the concern I 've got that even at sixty hectares , Harrogate 's allocation was too small erm really recedes very quickly sir , and would completely disappear and here Mr Allenby and I are at one , |
| 27 | Dealing with injured bats , unwanted newts and cats with bad breath is all in the line of duty for Christine Hall — and it 's a job she would n't want to swap for a million pounds . |
| 28 | I 'm not sure sure how we could build it into the criteria of But it 's it 's a point which would obviously have to be borne in mind in terms of the str you know , the planning process . |
| 29 | All in all it 's an experience I would not like to repeat . |
| 30 | It is a proposal which would still leave small countries , and especially poor countries , with a requirement to export wastes . |