Example sentences of "if we [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If we are followers of Jesus Christ then he says I want you to receive my gift . |
2 | By this time we feel as if we are Hemingway 's companion , hauling out the bodies one by one , so that when he says ‘ Well you waited a long time to get sick brother . |
3 | Rumours that the increased duties to be levied on gin were but the beginning of a general excise , an indirect tax that would hurt the poor much more than the better-off , fuelled the crowd 's antipathy towards the government : " If we are Englishmen … let them see that wooden shoes are not so easy to be worn as they imagine . |
4 | If we are face to face with the person sending the message , then we notice what they are doing with their face , eyes , and body while speaking : maybe they smiled , or shook their fist , or looked away . |
5 | I believe we have to if we 're residents . |
6 | ‘ Can we help it if we 're putty in your hands ? ’ |
7 | We start to notice that people look after us and protect us , especially if we 're girls . |
8 | Certainly if we 're beauty parading against er maybe London firms where perhaps the attitude might be a little bit more than it is from the provincial firms that perhaps are used to having closer relationships with their clients . |
9 | ‘ It almost sounds as if we 're 58% in charge of what we 're doing . |
10 | Especially if we 're sort of , we 're inundated with them , ai n't we , it 's getting overcrowded . |
11 | as if we were royalty , Alec thought with an amused smile ; as if we were Tudors or Plantagenets . |
12 | But if we were gods , and immortal , and could sit ourselves comfortably to watch the years slide by , with a magnetic compass conveniently to hand next to the ambrosia and nectar , we 'd see something extraordinarily interesting . |
13 | er in the way that we would if we were visitors . |
14 | Then he pulled himself together and said , as they mounted the station steps under the concrete canopy : ‘ Now if we were cops inside the covers of a detective story , Mike , we 'd know for sure that Hatton was killed to stop Pertwee getting married today . ’ |
15 | It took us about an hour by bus to get into the Central Market but in the last year we were there , the public transport system collapsed and we had to go home in trucks just as if we were cattle . |
16 | Matata shook his head again , as if we were fools . |
17 | as if we were royalty , Alec thought with an amused smile ; as if we were Tudors or Plantagenets . |
18 | The painter Jean-Baptiste Chardin shatters our ‘ knowledge ’ of the world by presenting it to us in a new way , as if we were children and his bowl of fruit stood just above our eye-level . |