Example sentences of "[coord] if i were [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or if I were feeling lyrical that day , I might write , ‘ It is a curious truth that grasshoppers have their hearing-organs in the sides of the abdomen . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I ca n't say we really got to talk properly until we played tennis together at Kyalami in 1976 , just before he took up his Lotus drive , but it was evident from the first that he was of sound mind and body and somehow radically different from any other driver I 've met before or since , and if I were pressed to say why that is so , it has to be because of his utter imperturbability . |
| 4 | And if I were to put it , If you have an opportunity of two sites and the development of one is capable of causing damage to existing characteristics and the other is not , would you go for the the one which would not cause damage rather than the one which would , or would you willy-nilly plump for either ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And if I were to pick one of my own , it would be either ‘ Zen Arcade ’ or ‘ Workbook ’ . ' |
| 7 | His reply is just about repeatable in this magazine : ‘ Look , ’ he said , ‘ big cars are for men with little dicks , and if I were to spend all my time polishing it , what would that make me ? ’ |
| 8 | My mother does n't cook very much food , and if I were to cook my own she would see that as greed and put a stop to it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And if I were to start screaming now it would be too late . |
| 11 | And if I were to stay … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I knew that I was playing with fire ’ , he confessed ; ‘ I ran the risk , and if I were set free I would still do the same . ’ |
| 13 | You 've been doing it to each other all the time but if I were to hurt you or if anybody else here were to hurt you physically or mentally how many times would you forgive them ? |
| 14 | But if I were to find such a change taking place while an animal is learning , unless the conditions for that change met all the subsequent criteria , I would be no further forward than the experiments of the 1960s that I criticized in the last chapter . |
| 15 | But if I were to tell anyone … . |
| 16 | I am quite aware it would take a far wiser head than mine to answer such a question , but if I were forced to hazard a guess , I would say that it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart . |