Example sentences of "if it was [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 If it was a child I 'd say here you sit up properly .
2 Tommy listened , nodding , as if it was a story he 'd heard before .
3 No , I thought if it was a man it was a president and it was a woman it was Prime Minister .
4 But , unfortunately , she soon realised that if it was a nightmare it was a living nightmare .
5 At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him .
6 If it was a mistake she was committed to it now .
7 If it was a mistake it is their fault , ’ said Andrew .
8 His grandmother said if it was a fact he would not get a grant she would finance him but that he should find out .
9 The word came from her with sudden and frightening force and it seemed to Creggan as if it was a burden he would carry always in this place .
10 This was very important — if it was a woman I would walk right out again — I wanted someone young — a kind of ‘ big brother ’ image .
11 Four weeks of being cooped up with Flute had taught Arthur that Ubu Roi was the most seminal possible thing about funniness , and if it was a book he was prepared to try getting it out of the public library one day .
12 Some of them were some had got old cars in where the tyres , if it was a puncture it was these great big wheels with beaded edge tyres which you can , you put on in quite a different way from the modern car tyres .
13 ‘ And if it was a pay-off it did n't do him any good . ’
14 In effect , if it was a profession it was a profession in name only ( a point made indirectly by my lecturer who studiously avoided use of the word ) .
15 I hate people that erm when my dad burps , if , if it was a cup he 'd go excuse me , but but it 's when they go I hate that !
16 Life is a gamble , at terrible odds — if it was a bet you would n't take it .
17 And you had if it was no good you wanting something and waving a bit of plastic at it .
18 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 .
19 If it was the Rajah they made their excuses and left , but any unauthorised Romeo would receive the unkindest cut of all .
20 So , decided Pascoe , if it was the window he was after , he was trying to get in .
21 She no longer even cared if it was the direction she wanted to go .
22 Even if it was the day we 'd be sort of coming back
23 If it was the battery it must have finally given up the ghost , because there was n't even the faintest wheeze or whisper from the starter motor .
24 Even if it was an illusion it was our best illusion .
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