Example sentences of "if [pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | They smiled at each other , and Sara felt as if she was balanced on the brink of some great truth , that the world outside the window was waiting for her too , opening up , spreading out into the darkness . |
| 32 | He played loud music if she was writing in the house . |
| 33 | Her circulating paracetamol concentration was 943 µmol/l on admission , implying a high risk of fulminant hepatitis even if she was treated with the antioxidant acetylcysteine . |
| 34 | They fell silent for a moment , all of them wondering if she was shopping for the son who was lying in a dissecting trench at the Medico-Legal Institute . |
| 35 | Stella could n't tell whether she was acting or not — she looked dreadful , as if she was suffering from the worst sort of headache , and yet she kept watching herself in the glass , turning her face this way and that , peering forward to follow the track of a tear rolling down her cheek . |
| 36 | She looked almost as if she was standing on the surface itself , although Pete knew that there were rocks and shallows and that the effect was no more than illusion . |
| 37 | Her instincts told her that if she was to survive in the world of industry and commerce she had to push the past to one side , and get on with life . |
| 38 | Goddess knew what would happen to hir if SHe was taken by the authorities . |
| 39 | Oh anything , if you was talking in the classroom that was the cane . |
| 40 | And , if you were riding along the cliffs at Kinghorn , how on earth did you see the King 's corpse lying on the rocks below ? ’ |
| 41 | Particularly if you were born on the same day as this other girl in the hospital . ’ |
| 42 | if you were born in the Mediterranean you would of been eating that stuff anyway and you 'd never have , think about it |
| 43 | I was just gon na point out that if you were to refer to the approved key diagram , you can get a quite easily visual representation of what that embraces . |
| 44 | But there is n't any reason why I suppose if you were looking at the the local authority grant it could n't go into that for advertising . |
| 45 | Mr Richard Warburton , director general of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents , said : ‘ If you were looking for the highest standards of safety , then you would be separating people from their vehicles in the tunnel . ’ |
| 46 | Well , if you were looking for the qualities Elinor had displayed in their years together , you could probably only have done better by marrying a man-eating tiger . |
| 47 | If you er using a similar example , if , if you were looking after the neighbour 's house while they 're away on holiday and found that they 'd been broken into , then that would n't necessarily be a nine nine nine call , unless you thought there was somebody in the house . |
| 48 | Erm , I ca n't remember what happened at the end , if you were tempted to the barrel as well . |
| 49 | So I mean if you were to finish on the thirty first of August then on the first of September . |
| 50 | If you were separated at the time , you are still treated as a dependant . |
| 51 | ‘ It might help if you were to call off the androids , ’ he said , exasperatedly . |
| 52 | You and your Spouse could be covered from as little as £7.90 per month — and you could both claim Double Benefits of £80 each if you were hospitalised at the same time because of illness — and Double again if you were hospitalised simultaneously following an accident . |
| 53 | Mm yeah Brian 's argument to that is that er if you 've got if you were hit in the back |
| 54 | Be careful : if you were asked by the council to comment on the original application , it may only inform you of these new drawings if you specifically ask . |
| 55 | • If you were to die as the result of an accident the Plan would pay out £40,000 to your estate . |
| 56 | The deputy Labour leader , Margaret Beckett , told Tony Newton , the leader of the Commons , who was standing in for Mr Major at Question Time : ‘ How would you feel if you were serving in the British Army under fire in Bosnia and were handed a P45 ? ’ |
| 57 | If you were to strip off the face , like a rubber mask , what would be underneath ? |
| 58 | With Mario , you felt that if you were walking through the wilds and a bear came bellowing from behind a tree , Mario would seize its paw , shake it vigorously and tell it a good story . |
| 59 | Er , in addition if you were to walk into the headquarters there today , in their trophy case the largest and most prestigious trophy is the Moller trophy . |
| 60 | If you were preparing for the paper to which the above chart refers , it would obviously be very foolish to enter the examination without a very full understanding of topics 1a , 4 and 5 ( six years out of seven ) , but it would be equally foolish to assume that you need pay no attention to 11 ( two years out of seven ) . |