Example sentences of "if i were " in BNC.
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| 1 | To me this is odd as if I were the president of South Korea I would have imprisoned Kim Hyun-hui and released Im Su Kyong as to me Kim Hyun-hui committed the more serious crime . |
| 2 | I believe , if I were reduced to rest Turner 's immortality upon any single work , I should choose this . |
| 3 | There have been many books written about improvisation and if I were asked to choose just one it would be Keith Johnston 's Impro which is straightforward , understandable , and theatrically aware . |
| 4 | If I were told to-morrow , ‘ You can have a united Ireland if you give up your idea of restoring the national language to be the spoken language of the majority of the people ’ , I would , for myself , say no . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't think I would if I were you , Wendy . ’ |
| 6 | I 'd go for it if I were you , ’ he said , and he gave me a little peck on the cheek . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd pay off the school fees first if I were you . ’ |
| 8 | If I were you I 'd schlepp down to the disco and get yourself some trade , dear , otherwise you 'll burst ! ’ |
| 9 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 10 | If I were on the pay side in the Treasury , I would be prepared to permit maximum flexibility on the salary and conditions offered to the successful applicant . |
| 11 | I apprehend however that it would be disappointing to you — I ca n't think why — if I were to stop at this point . |
| 12 | If I were reasonably satisfied that , other things being equal , substantially fewer persons would be murdered if the death penalty were available than if it were not , I should have opposed its abolition and would support its restoration . |
| 13 | So I must restate the question as ‘ What would my priorities be if I were now what the Minister of Health was then ? ’ |
| 14 | If I were taking on a new act , their ability to perform on stage would be second only to the quality of their songwriting . |
| 15 | If I were interviewing a new act , I would try to ascertain their sheer punishment factor . |
| 16 | If I were managing an act like Bros , I would run a professional fan club . |
| 17 | If I were to begin to manage another major artist , and Mark Knopfler were to ring up and ask me to get the band back together for an album and a world tour , something would have to suffer . |
| 18 | If I were looking for a record deal , I would be pursuing individual A&R people , getting them to come and see my band . |
| 19 | Shit , she said , I would have liked someone doing that if I were him . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd be careful if I were you , Rose . |
| 22 | ‘ What would you think if I were to bring someone new into the family ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ If I were to marry again . ’ |
| 24 | Again , I realized I needed evidence myself if I were to risk cals about their success . |
| 25 | If I were planning a home visit to see someone I did n't already know , I 'd go with another colleague . ’ |
| 26 | I feel exactly as if I were having a very prolonged dream but every time I come out of it I 'm so tired I fall back into it again . |
| 27 | She really talked as if I were a woman friend of her own age , her confidante . |
| 28 | So of his falling in love with Mrs Moore we are merely informed that ‘ even if I were free to tell the story , I doubt if it has much to do with the subject of this book , ’ and of his father 's death in the late summer of 1929 that this ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 29 | This sounds as if I were either sick of it myself or else trying to make you sick of it ; but neither is the case . |
| 30 | 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 , . |