Example sentences of "[vb past] if [pers pn] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the agent has received a number of offers , it may well happen that each party is advised of the offers on the table and asked if they are willing to increase their offer . |
| 2 | The landlady looked suspiciously at the notes he proffered and asked if they were Belgian currency . |
| 3 | They were of three different heights so in conversation with Julian I asked if they were all the same height or if some were taller than the others . |
| 4 | I can not remember if he asked if they were British or not , but there seemed to be some doubt as to whose side these bombers were on . |
| 5 | Debussy 's answer to a journalist who asked if he was familiar with heaven — ‘ yes , but I do n't natter about it with strangers ’ - is not so silly as it sounds . |
| 6 | The Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) then asked if he was pleased with the results ( he had answered Yes/No to this question in the Questionnaire ) and was he happy about his departmental predictions of results . |
| 7 | Claverhouse then asked if he was prepared to ‘ take the test ’ — to swear , firstly , that he acknowledged the king as head of the Kirk and , secondly , that he would not bear arms against the king . |
| 8 | The continuity was then broken when in 1977 he was approached by a head-hunter and asked if he was interested in working in the communications industry , or Fleet Street — ‘ a contradiction in terms ’ , he said — and found himself working under Duke Hussey as commercial director at Times Newspapers , becoming general manager of the Sunday Times . |
| 9 | Macmillan asked if he were willing for Coggan at York and he said Yes . |
| 10 | Elsie joined me on the river bank and asked if it was hot enough for me . |
| 11 | I swore ; then asked if it was believable . |
| 12 | I cheekily went across to a detached cottage and asked if it was possible to get a bite to eat . |
| 13 | Andrew Lamb , prosecuting , asked if it was possible for the explosion to have taken place when someone opened the front door of the house while smoking a cigarette . |
| 14 | I have been told that on coming to the village to work in the cement factories and receiving his first weeks wages he asked if it was all his as it was more money than he had ever had in one week . |
| 15 | I asked if it was foreign and she said that it was . ’ |
| 16 | In another development , a Downing Street press officer , when questioned about the fuel rises , jokingly asked if it was any colder in Scotland . |
| 17 | Then the man in Riga asked if it was cold in Leningrad , and we said yes it was , and the man in Riga said you had to expect it now , and that the Riga Hotel was modern and well heated as long as it was n't damp . |
| 18 | He asked if I was interested in coming in as partner . ’ |
| 19 | You asked if I was happy . |
| 20 | The storekeeper asked if I was German . |
| 21 | He asked if I was ready to commit myself to the Lord . |
| 22 | And then , dismissing himself , he asked if she were well and happy , and she lied and said she was . |
| 23 | I confessed to tiredness and asked if she was tired too . |
| 24 | What , what happened if you were ill at all or anything in the early days , did , did were you allowed time off for illness ? |
| 25 | Others fell on top of me , I never knew if they were alive or dead . |
| 26 | She wished she knew if he were married . |
| 27 | She no longer knew if she was happy or unhappy , cheerful or depressed , as she gazed at the infant lying in his pram , asleep in his cot , kicking on a rug before the fire . |
| 28 | Which meant that there was a lot of bed left to investigate before she knew if it was safe even to turn around . |
| 29 | I just thought if they were married and had children or something then they . |
| 30 | No I , I , I sort of smelt Patrick 's feet once and I thought if it was possible to faint on smells then I was going to , you know . |