Example sentences of "if [pron] [was/were] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Now if I were wearing suspenders and silk — ’ |
2 | Far , far away I could hear the slow , grinding sounds of traffic — but muffled , as if I were wearing earplugs . |
3 | Again , I realized I needed evidence myself if I were to risk cals about their success . |
4 | I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola , stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines , would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex , so durable , that I would perhaps never reemerge . |
5 | As nearly all the children had freckles , I felt as if I were seeing spots before my eyes , and drew Mickey Mice in a trance , my hand and pen moving mechanically through a misty ocean of freckles , wave upon wave , every freckle asking for Mickey Mouse . |
6 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way . |
7 | If I were playing tennis , I would put the ball back in the hon. Gentleman 's court by asking whether he thinks that those claims are genuine because they have been put through someone 's letter box and because they ask the recipient to sign the form and post it back . |
8 | if I were to get C C D or C C E or C D D I 'd be fucking over the moon , fourteen points I 'd be well happy with |
9 | If I were to contact Sir Philip , I might discover more recent news . ’ |
10 | If I was to spend race day reporting as a spectator , then the least I could do was arrive early and attempt the course myself . |
11 | I needed a shower and a change of clothes and if I was meeting Werewolf and Sorrel in Vecchio Reccione 's it was wisest to leave Armstrong behind . |
12 | Like — if I was wearing jeans it would only be 501s and that kind of thing . |
13 | yes , oh yes , and erm , going back to somebody asked me earlier , erm , about how it , I feel I have to be able to write about , just about anything , erm , and so if I was given commission to write about any one thing I would have to put myself in a position to , to be able to do it . |
14 | Oh I know but , if I was getting studio time there 's no way I 'd be going through the |
15 | I began to wonder if I was creating profiles for murder . |
16 | And er , if I was to put entries all the way across the top of this spreadsheet like this , and then , all the way across the bottom of the spreadsheet , do you know how I got to the bottom so quickly , by the way ? |
17 | In order to do this I decided to work loosely with the oils as if I was using watercolours , thinning with genuine turpentine and allowing colours to bleed into one another . |
18 | I felt as if I was taking part in history and the results were spectacular . |
19 | Unaware , Randall was saying urgently : ‘ What would you say if I was to arrange things myself ? |
20 | There 's enough examples of that and you read , the most peculiar thing I , I think I was telling , I do n't know if I was telling Iris I have a notion I had , had it in my mind to tell you and you turned up with this blind girl to do this M C |
21 | What if I was to say inauguration |
22 | The way I look at it is that if I was scoring goals for Juventus we might be conceding more at the other end because I have other responsibilities now . ’ |
23 | I 'm so self reliant that I if I was going o do anything it 'd have to be me that would do it , for the simple reason I could n't trust anybody else , not in that particular thing anyway . |
24 | He wanted to know if I was going park . |
25 | Walesa told the paper on July 25 : " If I was to face anarchy , or widespread strikes , I would have to rely on force to save the country . " |
26 | It was necessary if I was to prevent Dana rushing up to London and ruining any chance of a reconciliation between Berenice and Garry , to say nothing of the risk to the baby . |
27 | I blew through my lips as if I was breathing fire . |
28 | We headed out along the waterfront towards the port , but it felt as if I was treading water . |
29 | So for example if I was doing Saint Paul 's I 'd say right erm erm I 'm a building in the City of London , very old , very big and extremely famous on of the most obvious things that really stand out about me is my very large domed roof with a little cross on top of it . |
30 | ‘ When Paddy Ashdown parachuted me in , I asked him what happened if I was taken prisoner . |