Example sentences of "if it was [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if it was breakfast , you had to cook it within the half hour and get out . |
| 2 | Would yo , would you watch it if it was women playing ? |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose I 'd know , really , if it was Nick and me . |
| 4 | Everyone rushed out when he called , screwing up their faces , trying to hold their vision steady long enough to tell if it was Sigarup . |
| 5 | I disremember if it was October or November — it was October , 'cos it was before I came up here to join the matriculation class . ’ |
| 6 | If it was Morrissey who would eventually encourage Stephen to write more songs ( for the set that would become the No.1 album , ‘ Viva Hate ’ , at the beginning of 1988 ) , it was Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr — now one half of Electronic with New Order 's Bernard Sumner — who provided him with the opportunity to learn his craft as the guitar player 's producer par excellence . |
| 7 | If it was love , why was Queen Yolande so calm and not grief-stricken by his death ? |
| 8 | Then they were turning into Mahogany Drive and something lurched inside him , as if it was love he was meeting , not death . |
| 9 | He 'd destroy her if it was love , tear the heart from her and feast on it as the lion had that day in Auckland . |
| 10 | I sat and pondered these options for some time before deciding that numbers 1 and 2 were probably a bit over the top ( especially if it WAS Darren White that she really fancied ! ) . |
| 11 | so if you do it say , if , if it was exchange contracts today |
| 12 | bolshoi if it was O. |
| 13 | as if it was penance . |
| 14 | I say , if it was midnight Joey went round with that , I did n't even have to . |
| 15 | On the other hand if Wendy had deliberately misled Margaret and he himself were Svend , her chances of winning her sister away from his wiles were slender to the point of anorexia … especially if it was Suzie who had been so recently in his arms … |
| 16 | Mm , ah I mean if it was the question I mean I 've got that material we 've got it , I mean if it was question of sending out , I mean I could do that . |
| 17 | That was another thing ; if it was Jane Postlethwaite 's word against Zoser 's , the court would almost certainly convict . |
| 18 | She did not say more and when he came closer he saw that if it was sleep that had found her it was of a troubled nightmare kind , the sleep of the ill and the stressed . |
| 19 | I could nt tell if it was Soton fans joining in the appreciation , or just Leeds fans everywhere . |
| 20 | I could beat him on my bicycle ; if it was daytime the asscarts would overtake us , she thought . |
| 21 | The result was that when Bollaert finally made his speech on 10 September it was obvious that , for all the rhetoric and for all the idealization of the French Union , if it was independence that France was offering , it was so heavily circumscribed as to make it obvious that France had , at most , transferred the Jacobin concept of ‘ the nation one and indivisible ’ to a French Union in which she would still be in a commanding position . |
| 22 | If it was head on , it was hell 's delight to get the coal , you see ? |
| 23 | When I enquired if it was Miss or Mrs Hauxwell , she said , ‘ Oh no , no , no — Miss by name and Miss by nature , that 's what my uncle always said ’ . |
| 24 | " I asked you a question , " Lee — if it was Lee , and he was convinced it was — said softy . |
| 25 | If it was royalty |
| 26 | ‘ If it was London , Johnny , I would n't dream of letting her come to a ball , but I suppose Brussels is different . |
| 27 | if it was water and you wanted more to flow off ? |
| 28 | What you did was press , if it was water like Just plenty of water and then put that in . |
| 29 | The reason why ( 6 ) is perceived as if it was assignment is that the indefinitizing effect of the determiner means that the hearer is granted no more about the entity in post-copular position than : ( a ) The properties denoted by the noun used ; ( b ) The fact that it is an entity ; but the latter fact has already been given by the subject noun phrase ; hence the effect , with such a determiner , amounts to the same thing , in practice ( but not in terms of intensional pattern ) , as simple assignment . |
| 30 | and with as if it was chicken with erm parsley thyme stuffing |