Example sentences of "if [pers pn] were [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | I did wonder if they were searching for the book . |
| 5 | The two girls looked at each other , as if they were searching for the similarities . |
| 6 | No one would object if they were paying for the facilities themselves . |
| 7 | It was n't as if they were heading for the hills . |
| 8 | Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness . |
| 9 | 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 . |