Example sentences of "if he [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And people say they noticed how tightly O was holding Boy , pulling him closer and closer to him , as if he was clutching at him ; and how he smelt Boy too , taking in big draughts of the air around him , as if he was a man just escaped from drowning holding onto something and pulling the sweet night air down into his lungs in great grateful gulps . |
| 2 | Jesus therefore only acted as if he was a man . |
| 3 | She was n't sure if he was a man . |
| 4 | But it was nice to see all these old geezers with huge noses treating him as if he was a man . |
| 5 | And , if he was a man with , who had never been in trouble before , and perhaps with a young family , and through being hard-up and through illness or any other reason , he would speak to him in a fatherly manner . |
| 6 | Good God , the man must be seventy if he was a day . |
| 7 | On the headmaster 's right , encroaching rather than retreating , was Septimus Coffin , sixty-odd if he was a day , retired grammar school classics teacher . |
| 8 | Thirty or a little over if he was a day , and projecting all the self-assurance of years well used ! |
| 9 | An old bloke on a front seat — fifty if he was a day |
| 10 | The way Turnour was on his toes as if he was a runner . |
| 11 | It was Nassim in a battered red Nissan and if he was a Quo fan , he 'd never admitted it . |
| 12 | If he was a nonentity , one of the lowest of the low , then he wanted his work to reveal what it was like to be such an unfortunate . |
| 13 | ‘ But if he was a registrar he must surely have understood that you had to work shifts . ’ |
| 14 | If he was normally quite a kind person who 'd taken up robbing banks because he was short of cash they could put jam on his bread and vodka in his water , and if he was a horror they could empty the potato peelings over him whenever they felt like it . ’ |
| 15 | He refused to answer their questions but calmed their anxieties , dismissing Sir James as if he was a page-boy with a gentle tap on his cheek . |
| 16 | Richard Harris , according to Heston , was ‘ something of a fuck-up ’ , but conceded , ‘ However , if he was a fuck-up , I was a hard-nosed son of a bitch . ’ |
| 17 | Well may be you should n't have done if he was a friend . |
| 18 | He says he did n't cry , but if he was a girl he would have done ! |
| 19 | I do n't know if he was a joiner He was a joiner certainly |
| 20 | ‘ … one who deals with goods at the request of the person who has the actual custody of them , in the bona fide belief that the custodian is the true owner , should be excused for what he does if the act is of such a nature as would be excused if done by the authority of the person in possession , if he was a finder of the goods or entrusted with their custody … . |
| 21 | Lee ( ’ if he was a footballer he 'd be worth millions ’ says Watkins ) skates in Italy next month with club members and British dance champions David Samson and Adele Warner . |
| 22 | If he was a bit deadlier in the balls he 'd have been world champion . ’ |
| 23 | There is n't really anything funny about a reporter trying to ask questions , and if he was a bit more ruthless about it … ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I have told Peter Davenport that if he was a bit greedier he would score a lot more goals . ’ |
| 25 | He did n't really like the way she called him Nigel — it was as if he was a stranger . |
| 26 | And if he was a traitor who else was and still is ? |
| 27 | He laughed when I asked him if he was a clergyman . |
| 28 | but I do n't know if he was a time served joiner or if he was just a he was really a very good handyman . |
| 29 | I 'm sure the boy does n't want to be quoted as if he was a cross between the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Authorized Version . ’ |
| 30 | Why had this Pakistani — if he was a Pakistani — got it in for him ? |