Example sentences of "if [pron] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can tell you this much , if I were Lionel Dunbar , I 'd have packed her in months ago . |
| 2 | If I were William Styron , the third speaker , I 'd keep my head down . |
| 3 | If I were Mrs Douglas and had put up with years of a philandering , self-important husband I think I might consider I was more deserving than him of the luxury away-from-it-all fortnight 's vacation . |
| 4 | But if I were Ben Hogan , and a Bob Hamilton or Willie Goggin chipped in to beat me in The Masters , a Walter Burkemo holed a sand shot to swipe the PGA , a raw rookie — pick one — holed a 7-iron to beat me somewhere in Florida and then the like of a Bud Holscher or a Shelley Mayfield holed yet another sand shot to steal yet another victory , then I 'd not only be scouring the Fort Worth Yellow Pages looking for the nearest shrink , I might even think of tossing myself under a freight train in the nearest marshalling yard . |
| 5 | The snag is it could be almost anyone , and if I were Neneh Cherry or Stock , Aitken or Waterman , I do n't think I 'd be losing sleep over it . |
| 6 | If I was Peter Reid , I would be screaming blue murder to get this player . ’ |
| 7 | The man came back to the telephone and said that if I was Linford Christie I was to go in and see them . |
| 8 | As for my room , well , if I was Jimmy Page I would definitely say ‘ Too rococo ’ . |
| 9 | Like you said , I need to know if I 'm Robbie Gray or Robbie Cullen . |
| 10 | Well erm if I 'm crystal ball gazing , I would hope that all the women in this country , whatever their colour and whatever their class , would have access to first-class provision for their young children , so that if they wished to work they could actually work in jobs that paid them enough and gave them job satisfaction . |
| 11 | ‘ If she 's Nora Fanshawe , sir , who , for God 's sake , was the girl in the road ? ’ |
| 12 | If she were Norma Major , she would say to John : ‘ We could take the Jaguar and chauffeur , and cruise through Ealing . |
| 13 | It occurred to him as he turned them over that Nora Fanshawe — if she was Nora Fanshawe — probably stood to inherit a vast sum of money . |
| 14 | She looked at him in enquiry , rapidly changing to alarm as he asked curtly if she was Miss Adams and , barely waiting for her nod , pushed his way into her small hall , slamming the door behind him . |
| 15 | Growing apples is as easy as apple pie , if you are Joan Greenway of Highfield Nurseries . |
| 16 | Similarly , if you are spending money on advertising and your competitors spend nothing but cut their prices substantially , you are likely to suffer . |
| 17 | If you are George Goldner , Curator of Paintings at the Getty Museum , what do you do for a follow-up after you buy a great Rubens ( ‘ Samson destroying the temple ’ , see The Art Newspaper No. 25 , January 1993 , p. 9 ) ? |
| 18 | We look at our team , it does n't matter if you are section head or not section head or whatever you 're just working the team , you have responsibility for training . |
| 19 | ‘ If you are Mr Alan Millet then you come to us in deceit . ’ |
| 20 | If you 're self catering |
| 21 | IF YOU 'RE A BRIGHTON , BLACKPOOL OR BOGNOR BABY , YOU 'RE BETTER OFF WITH BRITISH GAS WATER HEATING . |
| 22 | I tell you what mum if you 're spending money at Co-Op , you ca n't see what you get can you ? |
| 23 | If you 're colour blind then it 's it 's a pity . |
| 24 | Although although there 's a lot of people who feel they 're all living in the lap of luxury if you 're Post Office or B T pensioners , they are n't and we have n't been able to get this surplus er in any way used for the benefit of those people and er and that 's where the ownership of the fund really and the surplus are tied in together . |
| 25 | So if you 're R P I linked , not too bad . |
| 26 | Success has become expected and four defeats in your first seven games is hard to accept if you 're Leeds fan . |
| 27 | ‘ But if you were Penelope Huntley you might not have been consoled by the thought that your children would inherit after Miss Morgan 's death . ’ |
| 28 | You might if you were Catherine Moorfield . |
| 29 | For example , in the story above , Mrs Glen may have jumped to the wrong conclusion but if you were Mrs Glen how would YOU feel if you were tired , your lesson had been disrupted by exams in the hall next door , several people in the class were being awkward , you get interrupted by an unhappy violin teacher moaning about his pupils not turning up on time and then you re-enter your classroom to find someone crawling under your desk with a handful of expensive musical instrument ? ! |
| 30 | ( ix ) " If you were Julius Caesar , you would n't be alive . " |