Example sentences of "if it [was/were] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If it was n't me who wanted Pendero to lose that race , ’ she concluded , ‘ and it was n't you , who was it ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If it was n't them it would be the Turks . |
| 3 | With this kind of budget you do n't have to ask whether the Catering Branch are doing a good , professional job — if it was n't they would be having to organise domestic famine relief drops ! |
| 4 | I am lucky that my other hobby of dressmaking is also my job of work , but even if it was n't I would still enjoy making things . |
| 5 | If it was n't I 'd be worrying . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If it was n't I would say , regardless . |
| 7 | If it was n't you could walk through a hail of machine-gun fire and come out the other end without even a scratch . ’ |
| 8 | Easy — five grand is what I 'd pay if it was n't you . |
| 9 | ‘ Well if it was n't you , then you must have a twin sister . ’ |
| 10 | If it was not me speaking , would I want to listen to me ? |
| 11 | And even if it was not it allowed both sides an extra nine months in which to strengthen their positions . |
| 12 | If it was not you or your dallta , who , then ? ’ |
| 13 | Cos I do n't wan na make a big thing of it cos if it was today we 'd have to go before Sesame Street or after the Sesame Street . |
| 14 | I sort of felt as if it was where I belonged . ’ |
| 15 | If it , if it was like you |
| 16 | The question of criteria of objectivity is a complex one , and it is not easy to decide what criteria are valid in what context.5 But if it was only I myself and no one else who could decide whether or not an error has been committed in a given instance , then the distinction between " subjective " and " objective " order would have no meaning . |
| 17 | She wondered if it was how she would define love . |
| 18 | The increase in the number of prosecutions did not result , however , in a feeling of sympathy for homosexuals , but rather the feeling , as John Wolfenden expressed it , that ‘ nobody had any idea how much of it there was … but there was an impression that it was increasing ; and there was a feeling that if it was then it ought to be curbed ’ . |
| 19 | For if it was indeed he , he had been beautiful — full of lip and sensuous of eye , and reed-slim he was , six years ago . |
| 20 | The Direktor had suggested that it was not necessary for Willi to go , that in fact it would be much better if it were just him , Busacher , and no-one else . |