Example sentences of "if [adj] [was/were] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much would you pay for that , if that were you , if you were thirty , looking for a thirty year plan , guaranteed to keep in line with inflation , thousand pounds a month . |
| 2 | I do n't know why he makes you do that I mean it 's if that was something the I mean all Tony used to ever say when we were at traffic lights were if you want to you can put the handbrake on at this set of traffic lights if they were downhill |
| 3 | It was recognised that what would be most welcomed by policymakers and others was a service that not only helped to keep people out of institutions if that was their wish , but did so in a way that was both acceptable to recipients and less expensive than alternative institutional care . |
| 4 | It had black sheets on it , and George was not sure if that was their original colour or just the result of years of use . |
| 5 | I said that I thought they were wrong ; but that if that was their reason for declining to serve I could only accept it and be sorry . |
| 6 | However , recently , the courts have taken a more laissez-faire attitude to exclusion clauses and fundamental breach on the basis that the parties should be free to agree that there should be no liability under the contract even for a fundamental breach , if that was their desire , see Photo Productions Ltd. v Securicor Transport Ltd. [ 1980 ] . |
| 7 | The Liberal Democrats said people should have the choice of putting off retirement until 70 , if that was their choice . |
| 8 | Now it may differ slightly by a penny from the computer quote anyway , so I always say , if that was me , it 's going to cost you , what was it , thirt , what did it work it out , |
| 9 | . Now if that was me see I 'd very often . |
| 10 | when she goes out for a meal she 's got a problem , now if that was me I 'd be having loads of big ones |
| 11 | that , that bloke has got , she said if that was me I 'd write to the Chief Constable about it |
| 12 | Well I think if that was me I 'd have that done now in case you do n't like it by the time you you get married and that could be growing again . |
| 13 | I said to her , I was saying it to Mum earlier , if that was me with a family , I 'd wake up to the fact that you 're pa , I , I I , there 's too many here . |
| 14 | But if that was me , I always start laughing . |
| 15 | If that was me I 'd say ooh , |
| 16 | Mr John Canford , who led the protest , said : ‘ We would n't mind if that was what really happened . |
| 17 | It was clear to me from this letter that we were engaged again , if that was what I wanted , and I did ; also , that the natural happiness and buoyancy of Leslie 's nature had reasserted itself , now that it had been released from what he had felt to be the cramping frustration of home service . |
| 18 | We would rather have gone somewhere else if that was what we wanted ; it was n't quite right somehow and so we painted the windows up again . ) |
| 19 | He learnt how to make love in complete silence or to talk all night if that was what the other man wanted . |
| 20 | But if that was what Adams wanted , well , he was willing to clutch at any straw . |
| 21 | Donna was far too tough to cry , he reckoned , and yet it looked suspiciously as if that was what she was about to do . |
| 22 | What she could do she had no idea ; but she would stand on the cliff top at Dover and heave rocks at the arrogant sods , if that was what it took . |
| 23 | But , if that was what he had to expect from the Russian , then that is what he would beware of . |
| 24 | Set free , IBM 's individual businesses could still collaborate , if that was what customers demanded , as all of IBM 's many units now do with outside firms . |
| 25 | If that was what he wanted , she would no doubt tell him again , if he wished to forbid the outing , then perhaps it was time for Madame herself to break her long silence . |
| 26 | But seeing the pleading in her eyes and aware that she was on the very brink of womanhood , he knew that he must give her her head and allow her to marry if that was what she wanted . |
| 27 | But if that was what he believed , it was not true . |
| 28 | If that was what you decided to do . ’ |
| 29 | And I 'd certainly never sleepwalked before , if that was what I had done . |
| 30 | Dad told him I 'd lost that labouring job and he said if that was what I wanted to do , he had a job repairing houses he owns . ’ |