Sentence examples for If I were a fly from inspiring English sources

They start with a close up of me saying: "If I were a fly…" and then I transform myself into a fly, with complicated and beautiful costumes.

The lines that hooked me were from "Ode to the West Wind": If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O, uncontrollable!

If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist too.

"I am instinctively reluctant to be prescriptive here, but I must say if I was a passenger flying between Australia and Europe I would be curious about where I was flying," he told Fairfax Radio on Thursday.

If I was a Russian spy I would have flown from Hawaii to Moscow.

I asked if I could be a fly on their wall.

I cast 70 feet as delicately as if I were presenting a tiny fly to a dimpling trout.

"The lights are everywhere, as if I were flying within a Christmas tree".

–If you were a fly, to where would you fly?

Ah, if only I were a bird and could fly so as to come and see you for one hour, and I would be happy to die at the same time.

It wasn't the first time that I'd felt as if I were flying backward: the toilet was a vessel in the air propelled by weeping, and with her hands she was steering me.