Example sentences of "if [pers pn] was [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I was to have any chance of being posted to Calvi , I would have to come in the top five in basic training . |
| 2 | When I realised that Barny was untrainable , I knew I would have to find a hand-reared owl if I was to stand any chance of training one successfully . |
| 3 | Jimmy was silent for a moment , then he said , ‘ What sort of thing did you mean when you asked if I was suffering any after-effects ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It may not be as comfortable as an ordinary saloon , ’ Ward said on a note of apology , ‘ but buggered if Ah was takin' any chances in a country like this . ’ |
| 5 | By the time Judith was seven , it was quite obvious to Bertha Cohen that if she was to have any hope of achieving the enlargement of her life that she dreamed of she would just have to try again . |
| 6 | I paused , to see if it was having any effect . |
| 7 | They were often in danger of forgetting that the good news they heard each Sunday had to be applied to everyday life if it was to have any validity . |
| 8 | Such case as the defence were able to make depended , like the defence in some of the cases cited above , almost entirely on the defendant 's credibility if it was to have any prospect of success and therefore the misdirection was material . |
| 9 | Anthony Hope 's detachment meant that his story could be free from contemporary political overtones : if he was expressing any apprehensions about the state of Europe , they were not visible in his books as they are in Erskine Childers 's thriller , The Riddle of the Sands , or in Buchan 's ‘ Ruritanian ’ novels . |
| 10 | He never drove his car if he was having any drink with his lunch . |
| 11 | Stirling himself realized that if he was to stand any chance of getting his radical ideas accepted , he had to ‘ sell the proposal ’ to the Commander-in-Chief . |