Example sentences of "[prep] if they [was/were] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 2 | " You need it , sweetheart , " it was the lover 's voice , yielding , as if they were in bed . |
| 3 | She 'd snatched them away as if they were in danger , and afterwards burst into Quentin 's study to have her scene . |
| 4 | Accordingly , accompanied by Emil and a few of the others , I carried my bags to the coffee shop where everyone immediately ordered huge carrot cakes , the speciality of the house , as if they were in fear of famine . |
| 5 | With the rising and falling of the blaze , the stone faces showed as if they were in torment . |
| 6 | Not as if they were in pain but very quietly and evenly , as if out of some dreadful and hopeless despair . |