Example sentences of "if [indef pn] [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miranda felt a melting and tickling inside her stomach as if someone was stroking it with a feather . |
| 2 | In the process my middle was doubled up and it felt roughly as if somebody were squashing it between two metal plates studded with nails . |
| 3 | But still the horses would n't budge : they were fixed as if something was holding them to the road . |
| 4 | However , a great many books that , if one were tabulating them by content , would perhaps have to be called why-dun-its still have in them considerable elements of other sub-genres . |
| 5 | Indeed one might argue that talk of Jesus as our ‘ brother ’ , emphasizing his humanity , makes Jesus more intrusively male than if one were casting him in the role of the cosmic Christ . |