Example sentences of "if [pron] [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were on the pay side in the Treasury , I would be prepared to permit maximum flexibility on the salary and conditions offered to the successful applicant . |
| 2 | Towards noon , the mirage drew nearer , to about half a mile , as if I were on an island trapped by the in-coming tide . |
| 3 | Given the chance , I would have stayed watching or followed the kestrel around the park all day , but if I was on a shopping sortie with my mother , she was always in an incredible hurry , so that was n't possible . |
| 4 | On the other hand , if I was on a picket line or somewhere , I could give him a pretty hard old shove without pulled in , I would imagine . |
| 5 | ‘ But several days later he came straight out with it and asked me if I was on the Pill and would I go on holiday to Scotland with him . |
| 6 | If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it . |
| 7 | Anyone in the city who knew me also knew that I could be found there , at some time every night , if I was on the planet . |
| 8 | If I was on the tiger 's side — running the other mob — I 'd be in no hurry to pounce . |
| 9 | ‘ I just thought Britain was getting like a treadmill , and that if I was on the spot in the States I 'd be able to chivvy them around a bit more . |
| 10 | Her voice had a lilt to it as if she were on the verge of laughter . |
| 11 | If she was on a plane with the engines on fire she would want to be with someone like Matthew Blake . |
| 12 | At Folasade 's school , asking someone if she was on the Pill was the way of asking her if she was sleeping with her boyfriend or not . |
| 13 | ABC television memorably noted that " Sarah Brightman could n't act scared if she was on the New York subway at four o'clock in the morning " ; while Frank Rich of the New York Times — the feared " butcher of Broadway " — remarked that she " simulates fear and affection alike by screwing her face into bug-eyed , chipmunk-like poses " , and that Lloyd Webber 's score was " long on pop professionalism , and impoverished of artistic personality and passion " . |
| 14 | If , if er if you were on a case er well if you could get out for a , for an hour in the afternoon for a walk , but that was about all . |
| 15 | ‘ The dust on your clothes : it would be mud if you were on a farm . ’ |
| 16 | You 'd do it if you were on a bank executive and you said well only five percent of people ask for independent advice , why do we bother with all that lot ? |
| 17 | If you were on a house that was causing problems , you got what was called babysitters , which meant two screws on the house all night . |
| 18 | if , if you were on a street then , if you were a burglar and there 's a house there with a burglar alarm on |
| 19 | Richard , Richard if you w if you were on the streets of Belfast for example goodness only knows what they would say to you , just because you 're British and they 'd use the pretext that you 're black to really throw horrendous insults at you . |
| 20 | Not if you were on the look-out for adventure . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Anyway , if you were on the railways we 'd get free tickets wherever we wanted to go . ’ |
| 22 | If a pond and beacon were both on the line , you would only see the reflection of the beacon in the pond if you were on the line too . |
| 23 | The school authorities were unsympathetic : the dinner ladies would only accept you into the school to see the nurse if you were on the point of death , + my teacher kindly informed me that I should n't have been running in the playground . |
| 24 | And just remember your lines as if you were on the stage at Drury Lane . |
| 25 | Heaven forbid I would n't talk to you like this if we were on the air would I ? |
| 26 | We did n't go in always , we used to If we were on the top of the hill we used to watch from the top . |
| 27 | It sounded as if whoever was on the line did not agree . |
| 28 | They went up and down as if they were on a roller-coaster . |
| 29 | ‘ If they were on the road we could n't hear them from the house , and I truly doubt that anyone would go home via the graveyard and the woods . |
| 30 | His knees looked to Bernice as if they were on the verge of buckling . |