Example sentences of "if [pers pn] be a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sick of the way you 've treated me , as if I were a child who 's misbehaved . ’ |
| 2 | If I were a girl I would n't let a man go near me ! |
| 3 | If I were a man I 'd tell me to get lost — and fast ! |
| 4 | If I were a man you would n't dare do this ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But why would I agree to help you investigate the club if I were a user myself ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If I were a thief I could have forced my way in , or crept secretly in , ’ said the little tailor . |
| 7 | My palace if I were a king it 's more than a palace it 's my everything . |
| 8 | If I were a teacher I would cook up some real scorchers for the children of doting parents . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If I were a woman I would n't have the slightest interest in it either . |
| 11 | If I were a fox I would prefer to take the chance of a twenty second chop by hounds . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ If I was a person who believed in such things … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ If I was a Romany I 'd have ended up fighting Nahum , ’ said Seb , trying not to allow the emotion he felt to show . |
| 15 | If I was a scientist it would be like finding a cure for for a disease or a technological breakthrough . |
| 16 | ‘ If I was a toff I 'd have a watch , ’ said Sadie glancing at a wrist that needed no additions . |
| 17 | He looked half determined , half afraid , as if I was a lion which he as assistant keeper was helping to escort from one zoo to another . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Are you saying if I was a Catholic I could n't suit myself ? |
| 20 | I thought : ‘ If I was a plant I 'd feel like growing . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ If I was a horse I 'd be called ‘ over the top ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ If I was a dog you would n't let me . |
| 23 | I felt as if I was a schoolboy who had done something wrong and was being taken to see the headmaster . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | An if yu are a Rasta yu can tour Africa . |
| 26 | For we are taught both by the words of worthy men of old and by our experience that this is a most certain sign , and it has been found that even if she be urged and exhorted by solemn conjurations to shed tears , if she be a witch she will not be able to weep : although she will assume a tearful aspect and smear her cheeks and eyes with spittle to make it appear that she is weeping ; wherefore she must be closely watched by the attendants . |
| 27 | ‘ If she 's a model she has to expect to model dresses . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ There , there , ’ he said , as if she were a child herself . |
| 29 | He undressed her slowly and with infinite gentleness , as if she were a peach he could not bear to bruise , and then guided her shaking hands as she undressed him . |
| 30 | If she was a witch she would be good at that , too . |