Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [be] [adv prt] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why I was bedding you if I was about to be married to someone else ? ’ he asked softly . |
| 2 | The picture he had painted was so vivid that once again she felt as if she were about to be sick . |
| 3 | Thucydides , an acute social historian when he wants to be , remarks that ‘ most of the dealings between the Spartans and their helots were of a precautionary character ’ ( iv.80 ) , and tells a suitably laconic story of two thousand specially manly helots who were garlanded and led round the temples as if they were about to be given their freedom ; they were never seen again and nobody knew what happened to them . |
| 4 | They took their seats on canvas chairs which were placed side by side on the strip of red tiling , as if they were about to be photographed or to review a marching column . |
| 5 | It somehow seemed to be a cutting-off point , as if they were about to be flown away from any contact with civilisation . |
| 6 | He looked as if he was about to be sick . |
| 7 | Ted looked as if he was about to be personally bombarded by a squadron of Messerschmitts . |