Example sentences of "he were to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be the most terrible calamity if he were to be killed not knowing ! |
| 2 | Pastiche or not , ‘ Disco Dancer ’ lived in the kind of predictability that Morrissey , if he were to be truly distanced from The Smiths , would denounce fervently . |
| 3 | She had not decided whether or not to tell Dick , but if he were to be told it would be by her , not by the Longhills . |
| 4 | What if he were to be punished for his vengeance by a plunge into the nerve-glove ? |
| 5 | If he were to be an ‘ S. ’ also , a Stephen or a Sam , then how was she to know which of them had given her orders ? |
| 6 | ‘ If , for example , he were to be engaged in the reconnaissance of the Unknown Lands , ’ Alexei supplied . |
| 7 | I think I said how it would please me if one day he were to be elected to the Cullbridge Athenaeum . |
| 8 | ‘ He is remarkably well handicapped on 10st four , and if he were to be handicapped again he would go up another stone . |
| 9 | ‘ It would be unfortunate , ’ said Paul , ‘ if he were to be derailed at this point . ’ |
| 10 | In these lines , Brutus is saying that the only way to stop Caesar becoming emperor is to kill him , and although he has no personal grievances against Caesar ( Caesar is kind to him and favours him ) , it would be bad for the people of Rome ( ‘ the general ’ ) if he were to be crowned . |