Example sentences of "if [pron] [was/were] [not/n't] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But should n't I do better work if I were n't driven from pillar to post to supplement my salary ? |
| 2 | Martha turned and shook off her idleness , realising that the old woman would continue enumerating chores if she were not distracted . |
| 3 | If she was n't mistaken , someone above had just licked his backside and , true to naval tradition , he was passing the reprimand down . |
| 4 | The smile on her sweet mouth quickly faded though the moment the door was opened and she at once took in the unusual pallor of Cara 's skin and the fact that , if she was n't mistaken , her dear sister had recently been crying . |
| 5 | I still had no thought — for obvious reasons — of making any move on her but I felt it would be enough if she was n't repelled by me . |
| 6 | ‘ If she was n't watched over 24 hours a day , she would die . |
| 7 | ‘ I would n't do it if she was n't committed ’ explains Slater . |
| 8 | She had a pretty shrewd guess what Jason had done to have so altered the volatility but if she was n't allowed down to the pits how would she ever prove it ? |
| 9 | Her breath caught , and she sent him a startled look and , as her heart gave a merry flutter to see that his dark-eyed glance , dark and good-humoured if she was not mistaken , was on her again , ‘ Are you inviting me to call you — Vendelin ? ’ she dared , and hardly believed that it could be so . |
| 10 | ‘ But , ’ Ranulf interrupted , ‘ if the Lady Eleanor was not murdered by any of the good sisters … if she was not murdered by Gaveston , if no one stole across the priory walls , what did happen ? ’ |
| 11 | So when you first go down to the beach , no matter how brown your skin , you should treat it as if you were n't suntanned . |
| 12 | Well that , that was , if you , if you were n't born . |
| 13 | I mean , come on , but I do understand that some of you were briefed or , or Do n't worry about this now , but we would like this briefing questionnaire back before you leave on Wednesday , er , if you were a late replacement , could you just make that plain on there , er , if you were n't briefed , you 've got the shortest questionnaire in the world to fill in . |
| 14 | ‘ But you would n't feel real if you were n't surrounded by people most of the time telling you how wonderful you are . |
| 15 | For the first six years , it will give an additional 2 per cent if you were not contracted out of SERPS already . |
| 16 | If you were not contacted please let me know so that it never happens again . |
| 17 | If you insure all the property in your flat against theft , fire etc. you have less of an incentive to make the place thief-proof and to check over it carefully before going out or going to bed than if you were not insured . |
| 18 | If you were not allowed to go back and live in your country , how would you feel ? |
| 19 | The Queen 's argument was that , if something was n't done about it in less than no time , she 'd have everybody executed , all round . |
| 20 | But he would be ill if something was n't done about Edwin Lorrimer . |
| 21 | I said at the last meeting in Bungay in January that Bungay will cease to function within five years if something was n't done about it . |
| 22 | Cardinal Heenan warned a long time ago that by the year 2,000 there would be no Catholic Church in our country if something was not done to rectify things . |
| 23 | But Philip , a gentle and even timid soul , would leave if something were not done . |
| 24 | While accepting in principle the need to delegate , her inner fury , not always expressed , if something were not carried out to her wishes , was great . |
| 25 | ‘ She has all the best of me without my bad side , and if she were yours , it would almost seem as if we were not separated by death . |
| 26 | From what I later found out , it was apparent that if we were not sent home it may have become increasingly difficult to transport those pupils who travelled on coaches home through the floods which had been gradually rising , mainly due to the River Deben bursting its banks and so flooding the nearby villages . |
| 27 | Where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes ? |
| 28 | Curiously , when you ask them how they would react to deletion of the procedure of inviting criticism of their draft reports from the regulations , their response is along the lines of : ‘ If we were not required to do it we would probably carry out a similar course of action unofficially in order to ensure that we had not missed an important point . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ If we were n't tied to this bit of the country , I 'd almost think about chucking it all in and heading off somewhere different — Canada , or Australia , or South Africa . ’ |
| 30 | Then there are batteries for when we 're stopped , but they 'd only last for forty-five minutes , eh ? , if we were n't plugged into the ground supply at a station . |