Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I were going to use this now … ’ |
| 2 | He walked me to the door with the kids in tow and said that we could all have a look inside , the kids as well , but even though I was shaking from head to toe , I said eventually , after we walked past the place at least four times , if I was going to do this I might as well do it on my own . |
| 3 | Her own country , France , had been accustomed to regular taxation since the fourteenth century ; but if she was seeking to invoke this model , she might have remembered that there the nobles were exempt from taxation . |
| 4 | ‘ If you were going to use this , ’ Court observed , ‘ we 'd be having a different sort of conversation . ’ |
| 5 | Now the eighteen-forties sees the development of manufacturing process , clothes are getting easier and easier to make , cheaper and cheaper , so fashion is changing faster because people can afford to , whereas in earlier times , if you wore a woollen dress , it had been you know , you know , somebody had done the sheep for you , had spun the wool and woven the wool and you were damned if you were going to take this dress off until it fell to pieces round you . |
| 6 | Now what I 'd like you to do is show me can you divide it up if we were going to eat this whole pizza between the two of us if it was one one shared out between two people how much would we get ? |
| 7 | The Revenue would have some difficulty if they were to try to apply this head to tax upon the settlor or the spouse of the settlor income validly accumulating in an overseas discretionary trust . |
| 8 | I could n't accept it ; my resolve to carry on snapped and I said that if they were going to do this , then 1 , too , would not eat . |
| 9 | It was now called Growth and to get a decision on anything , you had to have a committee meeting , and as I pointed out , if it was going to continue this way , David would lose interest totally . |
| 10 | Let them think him high-handed ; he was damned if he was going to let this greasy television pundit push him about . |
| 11 | If he was going to adopt this strategy , it made sense to do so as soon as possible — before new legislative elections renewed parliament 's mandate and while Algeria was still fresh in people 's memories . |