Example sentences of "if [pers pn] were [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I returned to Moose Jaw about mid-August I had a long talk with Fred Workman , who told me he had noticed a certain restlessness in me as if I were hoping for a change of scene . |
| 2 | If I were looking for a record deal , I would be pursuing individual A&R people , getting them to come and see my band . |
| 3 | If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail . |
| 4 | I 'm about to invest in a brand new , superduper , anti-obsolescence computer and I feel as confident as if I were shopping for a pair of skis . |
| 5 | If you were looking for a physico-chemical reason for this fact rather than the , more usual , historical one you could do worse than suggest a capacity to make helical molecules . |
| 6 | If you were thinking of herbaceous plants , good ones to try are Iris unguicularis and Helleborus niger , if you were looking for a shrub , I would suggest Chimonanthus praecox , or winter sweet ; Lonicera fragrantissima , one of the hammelis , perhaps H. mollis , H. intermedia or H. japonica , or Viburnum x bodnantense . |
| 7 | IF you were looking for a local Pillar of Society , you did not need to seek further than Brian Courtenay . |
| 8 | ‘ If you were looking for a real boost to the industry then these first 10 days should have been much better , ’ said a City analyst . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But first , if you were hoping for a swift end to the depression in the housing market , think again . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | If you were going for a MacDonalds how long do you think it would take ? |
| 14 | Right if we were looking for a fifteenth , say we were looking for a fifteenth what would make |
| 15 | I did wonder if they were searching for the book . |
| 16 | The two girls looked at each other , as if they were searching for the similarities . |
| 17 | If they were wishing for a girl by then , their prayers were answered : Emily Jane was born in Penton Street on 31 May 1857 . |
| 18 | Or if they were going for a day then I might go down and |
| 19 | No one would object if they were paying for the facilities themselves . |
| 20 | It was n't as if they were heading for the hills . |
| 21 | Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness . |
| 22 | It was as if he were preparing for the day he would be a big man himself in this town and wanted everyone on his side , wanted them all to think of him as a customer . |