Example sentences of "if [pers pn] be [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And I take it erm the commission structure is just the same if I am continuing a contract on for the following year .
2 If I am to find a criticism , it is in the rather erratic organisation of the material .
3 But if I am to have a horse it must be Han Ch'in 's .
4 I sometimes do this , but usually I just white out around my eyes , which stops my makeup smudging if I am heading a ball .
5 If I were to ask a school-teacher to choose for me a sample which she considered to be a fair cross-section of her pupils so that I could interview them for a survey , there would almost certainly be a personal bias in the sample given to me .
6 " 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 .
7 There is enough in evidence here to convince me that if I were to submit a checklist to Jimmy Moon the resulting guitar would be a very fine instrument indeed .
8 ‘ So if I were to screen a feature film for you , and in it there was a scene that took place with two characters talking on a sofa , you would be able to tell me whether there was an object lying behind it ? ’
9 Yet I know that if I were discussing a performance of , say , the ‘ Eroica ’ Symphony , I would come down like a ton of bricks on imprecise ensemble , where others would readily accept the fault if the interpretation was up to it !
10 If I were carrying a baby , do n't you think it would be my first priority ! ’
11 If I were painting a portrait of you , I 'd call it Rose by Firelight . ’
12 If I were to have a child .
13 If I were planning a home visit to see someone I did n't already know , I 'd go with another colleague . ’
14 But , if I were to identify a trend , I would do so on a retailing analogy .
15 If I was to do a file combine add again .
16 So that is another area that if I was to put a ban on imports
17 And when I spoke to Mr , I said well if I was renting a caravan and went to see it and it was dirty like that , I would n't want to take it on !
18 as if I was stealing a mug you know .
19 If , if I was playing a game I would actually somebody else .
20 I would not make an offer if I was told a player was not for sale .
21 Put it this way if I was having a problem with a member of my staff , or was , and we felt we wanted your help then you would come in and talk to them
22 She made it sound as if I was having a baby .
23 And a confident Hide said yesterday : ‘ I 've always known I was as good as people like Bruno and Lewis , and if I was offered a fight against Bowe in January I 'd take it .
24 There would n't be any problem if I was offered a position .
25 He put his hand on my forehead as if I was running a fever .
26 He then turned to me and asked if I was signing a contract too .
27 But if I was integrating a sine , it would have come from a cos and the cos should have given me a minus sine .
28 If I was making a career of this I guess I 'd resent Dixie coming with me .
29 The ideal way , way of arranging a room as I see it would be that you could have your separate rooms but have sliding doors , after all there 's nothing new in sliding doors , er , but doors opening and closing erm are restrictive , that 's only my own personal view , my wife does n't necessarily , necessarily share that view ideally if I was planning a house , the main room the main living room would be much larger than the one we live in , it would certainly be a different shape , erm when we had our golden wedding erm our visitors were so numerous that they were standing shoulder to shoulder in these two rooms and the kitchen whereas if it had been a reasonably designed house maybe we could of spread them around a little more , but they 're minor , minor defects that are not really serious .
30 If I was to get a job outside of the centre [ occupational day centre ] now and retired at 65 what would be the point of me getting a job ? ’
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