Example sentences of "if [pers pn] were [v-ing] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were paying for it I could n't stop you now you 're sixteen |
| 2 | When at 10.45am we had resigned ourselves to a day of swimming and sunbathing a farmer pulled up and asked , in German , if we were waiting for him . |
| 3 | If they were watching for her , they would n't expect her to travel on the night boat from Liverpool , with a rough sea battering at the B & I ship , while the drunks and the seasick threw up in the smelly lounges . |
| 4 | ‘ They 'd be on foot if they were looking for you , I think , but perhaps ‘ t would be safer to get behind the counter . |
| 5 | She kept waiting for him to do something , but he hesitated , as if he were waiting for her . |
| 6 | As she had come round the corner of the house from putting her bicycle in the old stable block , Inspector Blakelock had been standing at the front door almost as if he were waiting for her . |