Example sentences of "if [pers pn] were [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were to turn to a man on a bench |
| 2 | ‘ — if I were affianced to him , ’ continued Anne without batting an eyelid , ‘ instead of — ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Besides — ’ said Anne who had not been listening , but pursuing her own line of thought ‘ — if I were affianced to Prince Edward , the marriage could be completed in a year or so — instead of delayed for Heaven knows how long ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If I were to go to only one meeting a year for each of them , it would still be more than one a week , ’ he confesses , admitting that it is one of his greatest weaknesses . |
| 5 | I have been living in the city for three years and if I were to go to the estates now they would n't give me work . |
| 6 | What kind of a reception would I get if I were to go to your mother now ? |
| 7 | It 's a shameful fact , but here it is : if I were squashed under a bus tomorrow , my relations would have to hold a seance to find out how I wanted to settle my affairs . |
| 8 | I apprehend however that it would be disappointing to you — I ca n't think why — if I were to stop at this point . |
| 9 | Besides , I would have to love him if … if I were to live like that . |
| 10 | When I returned to Moose Jaw about mid-August I had a long talk with Fred Workman , who told me he had noticed a certain restlessness in me as if I were hoping for a change of scene . |
| 11 | Yes , yes yeah , I mean , I think if I if I were to say to you , shall we sing the National Anthem , we 'd say , oh no , no , no . |
| 12 | If I were looking for a record deal , I would be pursuing individual A&R people , getting them to come and see my band . |
| 13 | If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail . |
| 14 | Certainly my bank manager would take a dim view if I were to indulge in widespread massive discounting — margins are not that generous to begin with ! |
| 15 | I felt as if I were drowning in sleep . |
| 16 | Yes , yes , it does n't compete with the fireplace , we have a , a , er mock fire in there you know , normally in the winter that , that 's on and it looks , it 's very realistic , it almost looks as if it is a fire glowing all the time cos there 's a rotary spinner in it and it flickers , er , and er the room is very warm because it 's central heated anyway and , no I would n't say , it never bothers me the television , I do n't suppose that er , if I were left on my own I 'd hardly have it left on you know I think men watch television more than women . |
| 17 | Running in a half-mile race with little pains tearing at my chest and my knees sinking lower and lower as if I were running across quick-sands . |
| 18 | As Anwar and I had these conversations Jamila liked to open the door to the store-room and just point the black barrel-ends of her eyes at me as if I were sitting with Eichmann . |
| 19 | ‘ However , what upsets me is that I have heard unconfirmed rumours that some of the riders were threatening to pull out if I were put in the third row of the grid as was at first planned . |
| 20 | Terry er sorry Roger if , if I were interviewing for posts , I would appoint , and you know full well I would , the people that I thought were best for that job . |
| 21 | It was as if I were surrounded by snarling dogs held back by chains . |
| 22 | So Shitvolumes started preparing his next show as if I were going to be in it , until one day , just before The Jungle Book was about to go up , he came into the dressing room . |
| 23 | My heart was behaving as if I were going before a judge . |
| 24 | If I 'd a , if I were walking down the street going Nigger ! sorry ! |
| 25 | That is ‘ No comment ’ , but it 's ‘ No comment ’ done in such a way that it is implying intelligence on the part of the audience , saying , ‘ Well , you realize , of course , that if I were to comment on this , you know , it would prejudice either the chances of the prisoner if we catch him or , you know , any possible clues and so on . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm about to invest in a brand new , superduper , anti-obsolescence computer and I feel as confident as if I were shopping for a pair of skis . |
| 27 | I dropped my right wing suddenly as if I were turning into the cloud and immediately swung over into a steep left hand turn . |
| 28 | If I were to write of Milton Friedman : ‘ the absence of self-consciousness and the resulting presence of an egocentrically unified perspective seem to be associated with an inability to shift perspective in concept formation problems ’ , I do not suppose that many psychologists would accept such an application of the language of psychology . |
| 29 | ‘ I would n't ask him for a drink of water if I were dying of thirst . |
| 30 | I wonder if the Secretary of the Cabinet would go into the box if I were found outside the Ministry of Agriculture . |