Example sentences of "if [pers pn] was so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did I phone , then , if I was so free ? |
| 2 | And was it defensible to live with a man because I was physically in love with him and also interested in him as an individual , if I was so suspicious of him ? |
| 3 | I sent a letter to Mrs Thatcher saying if she was so hard up as only to pay us 40p , then she could have the money back . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If she was so miserable , why was she always smiling ? ’ asked the man who had printed more pictures of Diana than any man alive . |
| 5 | If she was so close to her father she must have known how he would have reacted to her answer when asked of her love . |
| 6 | If she was so genteel , she would n't have come here for the pittance she 's paid . |
| 7 | Yet how could she , even if she was so destructively inclined , when he had quite clearly fallen asleep ? |
| 8 | The five minutes were almost up , and she would n't put it past Lori to leave if she was so much as a second late . |
| 9 | But if it was so , the woman gave no sign . |
| 10 | But if it was so easy for me to see this evidence and to talk to those who had substantial proof of their ownership of homes in mandate Palestine , surely it would be no more difficult to go to Israel , find those same homes and — the idea had a special excitement about it — to knock on those same front doors . |
| 11 | And if it was so insignificant then why can I still see that first kiss even now ? |
| 12 | And answer me this : if it was so easy to chop Woman 's Hour why is it so difficult to abolish the House of Lords ? |
| 13 | In addition , interest on overdue tax accrued indefinitely and not on a day-to-day basis even if it was so calculated . |
| 14 | The order was suspended and the Legal Aid Board was given leave to object if it was so minded . |
| 15 | As seen , Lord Greene M.R. in the Wednesbury case conceived of unreasonableness in its substantive sense , as a long stop and a fairly extreme one at that : if an exercise of discretion successfully negotiated the hurdles of improper purpose and relevancy it could still be invalidated on the altar of substantive unreasonableness if it was so unreasonable that no reasonable body could reach such a decision . |
| 16 | If it was so unimportant , why , last night , had she scarcely slept for joy and excitement ? |
| 17 | I wondered if it was so smart to allow Kaptan to make such good progress . |
| 18 | Yet if it was so … |
| 19 | If it was so stunniggly desolate here , how must it be farther up , where the cool winds of the North Sea and the warm winds from the Atlantic met , sometimes to roar like a tornado down the Pennine Way ? |
| 20 | Whatever , when he arrived at the Ring , Niki was pilloried in the sporting press for his opposition to a great track in which all the other champions had raced : if he was so craven-hearted , they said , he should n't be racing . |
| 21 | Then , looking at the man as if he was so much dirt , he let himself out of the front door . |
| 22 | ‘ If he was so happy why did he start an affair with Nicola ? ’ asked the superintendent , leaning forward in her seat . |
| 23 | If he was so thick-skinned that he could n't see when he was n't wanted then that was his problem . |
| 24 | If he was so drunk that he could not appreciate the nature of the risk , he will not be volenti . |
| 25 | What planning should he undertake with respect to inheritance tax — bearing in mind that under the deemed domicile provisions in IHTA 1984 , s267(1) the taxpayer is deemed to be domiciled in the United Kingdom if he was so domiciled three years immediately preceding his death or he was resident in the United Kingdom in not less than 17 of the 20 years of assessment ending with the year of assessment in which the death occurs ? |