Example sentences of "if [pron] was [adj] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd have known if I was involved with someone else , the same way I 'd have known if you were making love to another woman during the week . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If I was pregnant by you , ’ he shouted back , ‘ then it would be a bloody great Barbary ape ! ’ |
| 3 | If I was honest with myself , I liked her , too . |
| 4 | Earlier we mentioned that erm there were a couple of areas which if I was helpful to you you could possibly help me and one was obviously |
| 5 | It was quite a responsibility at first , but if I was worried about anything there was a Head Gardener called Arthur Godfrey here at Killerton that I could turn to . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sorry if I was rude to you , too , Mr Morgan . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Sorry if I was beastly to you earlier . ’ |
| 8 | If someone was beastly to me and I mentioned it , she thumped them . |
| 9 | And yet he 'd talked about giving it back if he won and if she was good to him . |
| 10 | As to Mrs. Steed 's ignorance of the power of attorney , if she was ignorant of it , the ignorance was attributable to Mr. Steed 's incomprehensible failure to tell her either that he was about to or that he had made the appointment . |
| 11 | ‘ Even if she was unaware of what she was signing , and the bank did not take adequate steps to explain the effect of her signature , nevertheless she can not succeed without proof of agency . |
| 12 | Even if she was unaware of what she was signing , and the bank did not take adequate steps to explain the effect of her signature , nevertheless she can not succeed without proof of agency . |
| 13 | Well , if she was honest with herself , only the older ones . |
| 14 | Because , if she was honest with herself , she was rejecting something she wanted badly , but could n't allow herself to have . |
| 15 | In some ways those had been the best days , if she was honest with herself . |
| 16 | I do n't know if she was involved with it . ’ |
| 17 | He declined to say if the Queen had been informed in advance of Dr Runcie 's statement or if she was concerned about its content . |
| 18 | It was clear he already thought her beneath contempt and , if she was truthful with herself , that was a painful fact to accept . |
| 19 | Or if she was aware of him , was she aware of the political turmoil the previous cancellation of a Mapplethorpe show has engendered in the U.S. over the last two years , with the director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati indicted for obscenity ( but acquitted ) and the very principle of government funding of contemporary art called into question ? |
| 20 | She wondered if she was wrong about what you got playing the Moebius Strip . |
| 21 | The reason Nicola 's GP had sent her to me was that the little girl would n't sleep at night , had tantrums and breath-holding attacks , and her mother wondered if she was allergic to something she was eating . |
| 22 | Besides which , she reminded herself , he had chosen to put her in charge of his new London branch and , naturally , he needed to know if she was single-minded about her future job . |
| 23 | ‘ If she was frightened of him ? ’ |
| 24 | She became nervous , distraite , almost as if she was frightened of something . ’ |
| 25 | And sometimes since I have wished … ’ and here Minch dropped her voice low as if she was ashamed of what she was about to say , ‘ … well , there have been times when it seemed it might have been better if they had taken me . |
| 26 | as if she was ashamed of her momentary weakness , her chin came up . |
| 27 | The mouth was set grimly , he noticed , and the trousers were there as usual , white jeans now with a blue and white striped top , but there was the inevitable shirt hanging open over it , as if she was ashamed of anyone seeing those high , shapely breasts . |
| 28 | So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days . |
| 29 | It decided to question the validity of the Regulations in proceedings for judicial review but to avoid adverse publicity which might arise if it was the only building society failing to pay in accordance with the Regulations and to avoid the danger of being charged penalties , it paid three instalments as required by the Regulations but without prejudice to its right to recover those sums if it was correct in its contention that the Regulations were void . |
| 30 | But , in reply to er Terry when yes , of course , we should get it if it was prior to their new act |