Example sentences of "if i [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If I waited for a hundred years , if I devoted my life to fasting and asceticism and scholarship as the Druids do , still it would make no difference .
2 Steven suggested Spenser and Shakespeare , with perhaps Scott and Hardy , and if I insisted on an up-to-date author , William Goulding .
3 I do n't think I 'd want it in the house , it might be confusing if I walked into a gloomy room with it
4 If I walked into a Catholic school they 'd all look at me funny and shout ‘ Proddy ! ’
5 It was as if I suffered from an optical illusion so strong that it consumed my other senses .
6 It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show .
7 If I behaved in a similar fashion I would expect to lose my ‘ ticket ’ and be imprisoned for a considerable time .
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