Example sentences of "if they [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They often looked very strained to Anna , as if they were holding on to their loyalty for dear life . |
| 2 | The mules look as if they were turned out by machine . ’ |
| 3 | Vangmoor came up on the screen as if they were looking out of the window , but Vangmoor in summer without the wind and with leaves on the trees . |
| 4 | It is noticeable that parents often react against their own experience so that , for example , if they were brought up in a too restrictive atmosphere with little spoiling , they may spoil and leave their children without enough boundaries and routine . |
| 5 | The separate populations would first constitute mere varieties of the original species , but as the modifications accumulated they would eventually become distinct species in their own right , unable to interbreed with the parent form even if they were brought back into contact with it . |
| 6 | Yeah well maybe he wanted to see if they were going up in even and odd numbers side of the road . |
| 7 | But as you look at it nowadays you can see if they were going back to these days would we still have the same interest . |
| 8 | In the words of one user , ‘ they were giving them out as if they were going out of style ’ . |
| 9 | A lot of my mates said if they were going out with someone and they got pregnant they would run . |
| 10 | If they were to escape back through the trench they would have to move quickly ; any moment now the sepoys would have crossed the yard from the hospital and outflanked them . |
| 11 | Now we knew they had accepted the box as their home and would probably come back to it even if they were allowed out in the open . |
| 12 | It was less bad than the one before , but I could n't tell if they were dying down for good or if this were the prelude to something else . |
| 13 | Would men , misled into fighting for a cause which , in spite of claims made on its behalf , was a war fought for the wrong motives , be eternally damned if they met their death suddenly in battle , even if they were fighting out of loyalty to their king ? |
| 14 | Moreover , if they were to break through within the established system then they just might be a little less enthusiastic about introducing proportional representation as " a first priority " since it could let one of the parties they would have displaced back into the game . |
| 15 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 16 | These roles need not be a burden if they were divided up between more people . |
| 17 | On recovery nights , when subjects were allowed to sleep undisturbed , they took more REM sleep than usual , as if they were making up to some extent for the amount lost . |
| 18 | Suitcases that had once been quite light now felt as if they were weighed down with stones . |
| 19 | If they were held on to the animal or plant would die . |
| 20 | His eyes bulged as if they were coming out of his head . |