Example sentences of "if [pers pn] was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fine er what we 're , what we 're saying to you basically is , right , and , and another thing you 're doing is proving that you 're capable of doing it , now if I was training you from cold , right , and you had n't done it |
| 2 | If I was phoning you from Publishing and I phoned up G A |
| 3 | I have to pay 80p for one piece of Vallis , Cabomba etc at any of the fish centres in this part of the world and £1.50 each if I was to buy them in the little pots . |
| 4 | If I was interviewing you as an , as a member of the institution as a , a local spokesman |
| 5 | if I was recording you at this precise moment ? |
| 6 | I mean , all I use I mean , if I was making them for somebody I would use about four or five layers and then I would put a piece of lace of braid or something at the top |
| 7 | Gaston , the committee man , who had been eyeing Ingrid the entire evening , trying to discern if she was wearing anything at all under the gold waistcoat , hurried over and pulled her to her feet . |
| 8 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 9 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 10 | The lecherous Cohn once used his intercom to address an embarrassed starlet when he asked her if she was keeping herself in a state of sexual readiness for him . |
| 11 | Er , if you was to put everything on top of each other , for example , then erm , there 's probably little gaps between one section and another , and those little gaps are using extra memory . |
| 12 | For myself , I remember going home after the AGM at which the idea to start the new church was first announced , wondering if it was to involve us in leadership . |
| 13 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 14 | It is strange how so many of Palin 's characters , from Pythons ' Mr Gumby through to the stuttering animal-loving crook in Cleese 's A Fish Called Wanda , seemed to be based on his father , almost as if he was persecuting himself by playing infinite versions of the man . |
| 15 | Once again he sounded as if he was accusing her of something . |
| 16 | If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him . |
| 17 | She wondered if he was saying it with a question in his voice , testing her response . |
| 18 | as if he was treating her like a child … |
| 19 | ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’ |
| 20 | As usual it was impossible to tell from Adam 's granite features just how he was feeling — if he was feeling anything at all , she thought savagely . |