Example sentences of "if i were [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's more like it , " with a rich air of satisfaction , as if I were her masterwork " No , do n't take it off just yet " It brightens the room . " |
| 2 | If I were my patient , she asked herself , would I prescribe myself a tranquillizer ? |
| 3 | As I said , you must speak to me as if I were my father . |
| 4 | You 'd do the same to me if I were your wife . " |
| 5 | ‘ If I were your tailor , so would I , but I would n't tell anyone . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If I were your woman , God forbid that I should ever be so cursed , I 'd cut all my hair off ! ’ she hissed back through gritted teeth , devastatingly aware of the effect his nearness was having on her traitorous body . |
| 7 | I began to understand how , if I were his wife , this good , religious man could soon kill me , without feeling any guilt at all . |
| 8 | I mean if I were his dad … |
| 9 | He brought me flowers , took me out to dinner and the theatre , and was generally attentive to me , as if I were his mistress and not an old married woman . |
| 10 | I acknowledge that Fish 's enterprise in [ his book ] Is There a Text in this Class ? , unlike Joyce 's in Finnegans Wake , makes it so unlikely that he intended to call the word ‘ pleasurably' an ‘ adverb' that I 'd feel bound — if I were his executor and he dead — to change it . |