Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Lewis tells us in the preface to the published version of this book , his initial reaction was to wish for anonymity , ‘ since if I were to say what I really thought about pain , I should be forced to make statements of such apparent fortitude that they would become ridiculous if anyone knew who made them , . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ Even if I were to say you are right , you would have no proof . |
| 3 | As I said at the beginning I think one should be wary about using the word natural , because sometimes people use it you know to promote something you know like on advertising you know it 's natural , must be good for you , but at the same time there are certain things that are natural that are very bad for you like death and if I were to say you know death is natural , nobody would think I was advocating suicide of course not . |
| 4 | So erm , for instance , if I were to say , gee what is the essence of balm cake ? |
| 5 | Now , if if I were to say , let us now have that conversation using erm , |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 'm quite happy to see if we can what we can do , I ca n't guarantee that my Right Honourable Friend will take a different view , but I 'm content to see what we can do and report if your Lordships think that that is suitable , but if we were to do that My Lord , I think it would mean erm er it would mean that all these amendments which are grouped together should not in fact be , be put t to the vote , I mean that means ever er er all your Lordships because I do n't think it would be very fair if I were to say that I would move mine and the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh were c to come along and move his amendment and mine meanwhile has gone down the drainpipe and I do n't think that that would be particularly funny , but the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh I 'm sure would n't do such a dastardly thing like that ! |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If I were to go in now , thought Rupert , I should attract far more attention that if I 'd gone earlier . |
| 11 | Two or three 'phone calls later and it was all arranged — Jane I were to go to Skomer . |
| 12 | What kind of a reception would I get if I were to go to your mother now ? |
| 13 | So if I were to go out tomorrow and see one and it was nice |
| 14 | It would be inequitable to those who take a contrary view to that of the hon. Gentleman if I were to see him exceptionally , in addition to all the other representations that I have received from him , now that the consultation period is over and I am reaching a conclusion on the matter . |
| 15 | They picked up so much more corn that — if I were to leave them — they 'd have been in trouble in no time . |
| 16 | If I were to leave the job in 1995 or 1996 I would not want to leave behind a wrecked team because that 's not my style . |
| 17 | And if I were to pick one of my own , it would be either ‘ Zen Arcade ’ or ‘ Workbook ’ . ' |
| 18 | If I were to take this gun and shoot … who ? |
| 19 | What if Mercia and I were to take over Northumbria ? ’ |
| 20 | I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola , stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines , would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex , so durable , that I would perhaps never reemerge . |
| 21 | " 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I hardly think that it would help you if I were to give it . ’ |
| 23 | So , for example , the lecture I 'm going to give you today is n't reflected at all in Arnold erm so er I think it 'd be helpful if I were to give you some indication of when there were and when there were n't . |
| 24 | I think that it would be helpful if , at this point , I were to remind the House that we have made special provision for students in certain groups . |
| 25 | It might be helpful if I were to outline briefly the history of the STUCC and of the Government 's thinking on this matter . |
| 26 | If , on the basis of this , I were to proceed to make very careful observations of the weights of a wide variety of human earlobes , recording and categorizing the many observations , I think it is clear that I would not be making any significant contribution to science . |
| 27 | If I were to choose any country in the world to live as a family in it would have to be somewhere different , perhaps exotic . |
| 28 | For instance , what it is for there to be a red rose in this darkened room is for it to be the case that if I were to turn the light on , I would make a certain observation , and if I were then to move to another place , I would make an observation rather different , and if you were to come in , you would observe such and such , and so on . |
| 29 | If I were to turn to a man on a bench |
| 30 | I apprehend however that it would be disappointing to you — I ca n't think why — if I were to stop at this point . |