Example sentences of "if we [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heaven forbid I would n't talk to you like this if we were on the air would I ? |
| 2 | We did n't go in always , we used to If we were on the top of the hill we used to watch from the top . |
| 3 | The minute we got settled down in the bottom of our Kalamachka , rocking as if we were inside a boat and ‘ talking about Baghdad ’ , we felt transported to another country . |
| 4 | ‘ Look , Master Corbett , from here we can see all the river in our view , but if we were in a boat on that river , what would we see ? |
| 5 | She stood up as I entered the room , greeting me as if we were in a drawing-room in Chelsea or Gloucestershire and not in prison . |
| 6 | In fact , the work we have done together has always been very harmonious — although I imagine if we were in a sit-com at the same time we could get a bit waspish — ‘ She 's got more lines than me … but it 's never happened so far . |
| 7 | If we were in a zero growth situation and we still had all this demand , maybe we would have introduced the charges . |
| 8 | But if we were in a restaurant , I could get you in action , pulling back my chair . |
| 9 | I felt as if we were in the presence of a ghoul , the living dead . |
| 10 | It 'd be much nicer if we were in the position where we could write love songs . |
| 11 | In the bar that evening we felt as if we were in the movie Top Gun as U.S. Navy pilots sang , ‘ You 've Lost That Lovin' Feeling ’ to us . |
| 12 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |