Example sentences of "if they [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wonderful Members of Parliament , who , little more than twenty years before , had made themselves merry with the wild railroad theories of engineers , and given them the liveliest rubs in cross-examination , went down into the north with their watches in their hands , and sent on messages before by the electric telegraph , to say that they were coming Night and day the conquering engines rumbled at their distant work , or advancing smoothly to their journey 's end , and gliding like tame dragons into the allotted corners grooved out to the inch for their reception , stood bubbling and trembling there , making the walls quake , as if they were dilating with the secret knowledge of great powers yet unsuspected in them , and strong purposes not yet achieved . |
| 2 | Men still do this — they talk of men 's struggles , movements and characteristics as if they were writing about the whole class . |
| 3 | I did wonder if they were searching for the book . |
| 4 | The two girls looked at each other , as if they were searching for the similarities . |
| 5 | It was well I did n't see much sense in that either but er I mean if they were eating on the j er eating on the job did n't give you a break at all . |
| 6 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 7 | or if they were going to the university they would n't of gone there for the interview |
| 8 | Cos if they were beating against the wind and and there were three wild reefs about three miles off . |
| 9 | No one would object if they were paying for the facilities themselves . |
| 10 | It was time for the deadly follow-up — the Offensive Offensive in which John Major would savage his opponents , even if they were sitting on the benches behind him . |
| 11 | And then the er the older ones when they were if if they were sitting on the walls outside , the erm deck level flats , again they were either disturbing the people there or , the people were out shouting at them to get away and sit on their own walls and things like that . |
| 12 | And if they were together in Hampton Wick , if they were sitting in the front room of his home in south-west London , then Holly 's company Fiesta would be in the road outside , and the clothes would be smart on his back , and the whisky and water in his hand , and the confidence in his talk . |
| 13 | It was n't as if they were heading for the hills . |