Example sentences of "if it was the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm , ah I mean if it was the question I mean I 've got that material we 've got it , I mean if it was question of sending out , I mean I could do that . |
| 2 | If it was the Rajah they made their excuses and left , but any unauthorised Romeo would receive the unkindest cut of all . |
| 3 | It really did n't matter to Britain if it was the Germans who brought efficiency to the Turkish economy — so long as someone did . |
| 4 | So , decided Pascoe , if it was the window he was after , he was trying to get in . |
| 5 | She no longer even cared if it was the direction she wanted to go . |
| 6 | Even if it was the day we 'd be sort of coming back |
| 7 | Creed stared out of the window , as if it was the Crumbles he could see . |
| 8 | If it was the battery it must have finally given up the ghost , because there was n't even the faintest wheeze or whisper from the starter motor . |
| 9 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |